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Friday, April 9, 2010

District’s winners of the 2010 CIF Southern Section Academic Awards announced

Annually, each high school sports team runs a query for current grade point average (GPA) for every member on each team’s roster. The team awards, based on a cumulative grade point average, are awarded in 22 sports. To be considered, teams must have a minimum 3.0 GPA average (4.0 scale) in all courses in the first semester of the 2009-10 school year. The highest team GPA in each sport determines the winner. Each of these teams will be honored at the April 27 Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim baseball game in a pre-game ceremony on the field.

Our district’s high schools are in the large school division (1,501 or more students). There are 280 high schools in the large school division that participated in the academic athlete competition. Among those 280 schools, the high schools in the Santa Barbara Secondary School District placed first, second, and eighth.

• San Marcos won four CIF academic team championships: boys cross country, girls swimming, boys volleyball, and wrestling. San Marcos also had four teams finish in second place: baseball, boys basketball, girls soccer, and boys tennis. Four teams finished in third place: football, girls volleyball, and boys water polo. One team finished in fourth place: girls track and field. Four teams finish in fifth place: boys golf, softball, boys track and field, and girls water polo.
• Dos Pueblos won four CIF academic team championships: girls cross country, girls soccer, softball, girls track and field. The school had three teams finish in second place: football, boys soccer, and boys swimming. Three teams finished in third place: boys golf, girls swimming, girls water polo. Three teams finished in fourth place: boys track and field, boys volleyball, and boys water polo.
• Santa Barbara had one team finish in third place: boys track and field. Two teams finished in second place: wrestling and girls track and field.

San Marcos High’s Aaron Solis said, “If you added up the number of first through fifth place schools, San Marcos would be the top school in CIF and Dos Pueblos would be the second school in CIF! This is just as impressive considering many times just a few hundredths or thousandths of a GPA point separate first through fifth place!”

Additionally, several student-athletes were named “Student-Athletes of the Year” by their respective schools. These students are nominated by their respective schools and do not compete against other schools. Recipients of the individual awards must be seniors that have maintained a minimum of a 3.5 GPA (4.0 scale) in college-prep courses over the past three years, in addition to earning a letter in at least one varsity sport and participating in extracurricular activities ( music, drama, service groups, etc.).

Male Student-Athletes of the Year: Matt Welsh (3.97 GPA), San Marcos; Nathaniel Block (3.56 GPA), Dos Pueblos.

Female Student-Athletes of the Year: Jenny Ann Martinez (4.0 GPA) San Marcos; Katherine Boehm (4.0 GPA), Dos Pueblos; Rebecca Nielsen-Robbins (4.0 GPA), Santa Barbara.