Women's Tennis is recipient of Sacramento State's Team of the Year award…Hornets won their third straight Big Sky Conference Tournament championship, and finished the season with a 19-6 record…the Hornets qualified for their 16th NCAA Tournament appearance by winning seven straight and 13 of their final 14 matches heading into the NCAA Tournament…
Sophie Breault was named the Big Sky Coach of the Year while
Lou Baudouin and
Irene Riva were named first team all-conference in singles play…in total, six Hornets received some form of all-conference recognition.
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Men's Golf - The Hornets won convincingly at the Big Sky Conference Men's Golf championship by nine strokes…Sacramento State set the school single-season record with a stroke average of 287.58…Max Thomas was named first team, Gabriel Smith second team, and Zach Mate and Mason Benbrook honorable mention all-Big Sky…the team's total score of 841 set a new Big Sky Tournament record, and was the Hornets' best-ever mark at the conference tournament by eight strokes.
Softball - Finished the season with a 33-20 record, the program's most victories in 20 years…reached the championship game of the Big Sky Conference Tournament…defeated three opponents at the Big Sky's postseason event…the team's .623 winning percentage was fourth best in the Div. I era (1990-pres.)…lost more than two straight games just once…nine-game winning streak from Feb. 14-27…62 home runs were second in program history…had seven all-conference selections, including Big Sky MVP Lafulafu Malepeai.
Volleyball - Finished the season with a 20-10 record, the program's third straight year with at least 20 victories…the team also went 12-4 in Big Sky Conference play…the Hornets won four Big Sky individual awards for the first time in program history - Victoria Marthaler (MVP), Kate Doorn (Setter of the Year), Reese Ampi (Libero of the Year) and Keonahi'ilani Solaita (Freshman of the Year)…fell in the Big Sky Tournament semifinal round at eventual champion Northern Colorado by the narrowest of margins (20-18 in the 5th set).
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AWARD TIMELINE
June 12 -
Male Freshman of the Year - Jamar Andrews, Jr. (t&f)
June 13 -
Female Freshman of the Year - Keonahi'ilani Solaita (vb)
June 14 -
Male Newcomer of the Year - Gianni Miles (t&f)
June 15 -
Female Newcomer of the Year - Victoria Marthaler (vb)
June 16 -
Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year - Nathan Rider (t&f)
June 17 -
Female Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year - Jamisen Rasmussen (row)
June 18 -
Male Individual Performance of the Year - Ryan Ellis (bsb)
June 19 -
Female Individual Performance of the Year - Madison Evers-Lyles (sb)
June 20 -
Men's Academic Team of the Year - Baseball
June 21 -
Women's Academic Team of the Year - Golf
June 22 -
SAAC Award - Jamisen Rasmussen (row)
June 23 -
Male Team Performance of the Year - Baseball
June 24 -
Female Team Performance of the Year - Tennis
June 25 - Team of the Year
June 26 - Coach of the Year
June 27 - Male Hornet Award
June 28 - Female Hornet Award
June 29 - Male Student-Athlete of the Year
June 30 - Female Student-Athlete of the Year