Tribune notebook: Camden's All-Academic team announced
Nov. 7—The Dawson-Boyd volleyball and cross-country teams had 12 student-athletes earn All-Camden Conference Academic honors announced this week.
To make the all-academic team, juniors and seniors must have a 3.75 grade-point average. Dawson-Boyd had nine volleyball players and three cross-country runners make the standard.
Blackjack volleyball players on the all-academic team include: seniors Hayley Anderson, Allison Estling, Rachel Jorgens, Ayiana Hastad and Emerson Olson and juniors Reese Johnson, Lindsey Lund, Natyah Ritter and Addison Tufto.
Seniors Joseph Felton and James Weber and junior Kade Solem are members of the Dawson-Boyd cross-country team.
Here's a look at all-academic team members in the Camden from other West Central Tribune area schools:
* Central Minnesota Christian — Senior cross-country runners Ashlyn Brouwer and Hannah Graves, senior volleyball players CC Roiseland and Lauren Tautjes and junior volleyball player Morgan Groen.
* Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg — Senior volleyball player Olivia Noble, junior volleyball players Lilyanna Winter and Isabel Wirth, senior cross-country runner Quin Peterson and junior cross-country runners Salvador Barron Zuniga, Madeylnn Luft, Alissa Thompson and Olivia Thorson.
* Lac qui Parle Valley — Senior volleyball player Claire Borstad, junior volleyball players Brandi Meyer and Jalyn Lee, senior cross-country runners Eli Hegland and Grace Vacek and junior cross-country runner Baxter Kallhoff.
* MACCRAY — Seniors Kori Bristle, Callie Macht and Averie Nurmi and juniors Ella Hultgren, Callie Jaenisch and Addisyn Pederson in volleyball as well as junior Samantha Andol in cross-country.
* Renville County West — Seniors Laila Ridler, Hannah Savig and Coraley Bryan in volleyball and senior Isaiah Schroeder in cross-country.
* Yellow Medicine East — Senior cross-country runner Nicole Rillo, senior volleyball player Riley Streich and junior volleyball players Riley Haar, Ashley Luepke, Delaney Meyers and Klaira Schackelford.
Renville County West senior Javin Mungai has signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and participate in track and field next year. UW-River Falls is an NCAA Division III school, which does not offer scholarships.
Mungai, running for MACCRAY/RCW, ran in last June's state Class A championships at St. Michael-Albertville High School. He timed in at 51.42 seconds in the 400-meter dash. He also was a member of MACCRAY/RCW's 4x200 relay with Nathan Wieberdink, Brady Heiling and Sebastian Cisneros that recorded a time of 1:29.86 in the preliminaries and placed seventh in the finals. All four are seniors this school year.
Former Community Christian School star Brett Reid closed out the fall men's golf season for Division I Liberty University in Virginia by helping the Flames to a third-place finish in the Ka'anapali Collegiate Classic in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Liberty shot a three-day total of 813 with rounds of 262, 272 and 279, to finish at 39-under-par, three strokes behind East Tennessee State and Oklahoma.
Reid is a junior for the Flames. He wound up tied for eighth in the 20-team tournament with a 10-under-par 203 which included rounds of 64, 68 and 71.
Liberty's spring season starts Jan. 29 with the Sea Best Invitational in Jacksonville, Florida.
