Mountain West honors these 161 Lobos for their academic achievement

As the 2023-24 sports season is about to kick off at UNM, the Lobos had some accolades from the 2022-23 season to collect on Tuesday.

The league announced 161 Lobo athletes earned Mountain West Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2022-23 academic year, the 11th consecutive year the department eclipsed 100 such honorees.

To qualify as a Mountain West Scholar-Athlete, the athlete must participate in an MWC-sponsored sport, have completed at least two semesters at the school and maintained a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or better.

The 161 this past school year was the second most for UNM, behind only the 187 earned in the 2020-21 COVID-restricted season that had altered eligibility requirements.

Four teams — women’s track & field (33), men’s track & field (20), baseball (19) and softball (12) — set new sport-specific records.

The news comes a day after the league released its all-academic honors for the spring semester. The list honors athletes who played at least 50% of their team’s games and earned a 3.0 grade-point average or higher. UNM led the Mountain West with 141 honorees on that list.

UNM scholar-athlete honorees

Baseball (19)

Ben Baker-Livingston

Will Bannister

Akili Carris

Trent Dewyer

Dylan DItzenberger

Devon Dixon

Caleb Herd

Jake Holland

Terrell Hudson

Adolfo Iturralde

Konner Kinkade

Tristin Lively

Jordan Martinez

Deylan Pigford

Braydon Runion

Brett Russell

Kyle Smith

Reed Spenrath

Arthur Steinkamp

Men’s Basketball (2)

Josiah Allick

Jaelen House

Women’s Basketball (3)

Viane Cumber

Nia Johnson

Kath van Bennekom

Men’s Cross County (1)

Awet Yohannes

Women’s Cross Country (1)

Juanita Johnson

Football (6)

Tavian Combs

Andrew Erickson

Austin Erickson

Tavian Ford

Bryce Santana

Connor Witthoft

Men’s Golf (6)

Connor Adams

Bastien Amat

Albert Boneta

Carson Herron

Jacob King

Alvaro Portillo Navas

Women’s Golf (8)

Maria Caparros Levin

Chloe Lauer

Lauren Lehigh

Napat Lertsadwattana

Myah McDonald

Lisa Marie Pagliano

Anita Saechueng

Sophia Zamarripa

Women’s Soccer (18)

Brynn Boeyink

Sariah Brady

Brae Cole

Natalie Degagne

Presley Devey

Callie Droitsch

Alix Hailey

Myah Isais

Zaria Katesigwa

Karlee Maes

Eliza Mariner

Paris Dalton

Mercedes Morris

Sophia Roberts

Ellie Robinson

Taryn Robles

Paige Satterlee

Sakura Yoshida

Softball (12)

Maddie Boldt

Janae Cameron

Keyannah Chavez

Samantha Fohrman

Rachael Hathoot

Amber Linton

Grace Rana

Peyton Robinson

Taylor Snow

Jenna Trim

Reyan Tuck

Chloe Yeatts

Swimming & Diving (12)

Layni Andrle

Maya Clise

Maddie Deucher

Kristen Hepfer

Asiana Lee

Katy McCarter

Amaya Oliphant

Marina Olmstead

Kiana Raagas

Ashley Sterchele

Aleksandra Tomaszek

Marin Wilson

Men’s Tennis (5)

Arda Azkara

Alex Maggs

Ryoma Matsushita

Jan Pucalka

Nikolay Syseov

Women’s Tennis (6)

Leonie Hoppe

Hsuan Huang

Katherine Jhang

Sarah O’Connor

Sofia Taborga

Maud Vandeputte

Men’s Track and Field (20)

Abdinajib Abade

Victor Akhalu

Gal Arad

Ethan Brouw

Jake Burkey

Jonathan Carmin

Gannon Christman

Nehemiah Cionelo

Osaze Demund

Camillo Dunninger

Yehonatan Haim

Timothy Harris

Matthew Larkin

Rivaldo Leacock

Aidan Quinn

Lokesh Sathyanathan

Harrison Smith III

Jovahn Williamson

Awet Yohannes

Brodie Young

Women’s Track & Field (33)

Alexandra Adams

Maria Cisneros Llamazares

Preslie Coffey

Samrawit Dishon

Klara Dess

Sarah Eckel

Isabella Fauria

Lauren Fowler

Abigail Goldstein

Alyssa Gregory

Maisie Grice

Rebecca Grieve

Mikyla Harkley

Emma Heckel

Emily Ho

Analisa Ibarra

Leigh James

Juanita Johnson

Kilee Kaasch

Gracelyn Larkin

Kailey Ludwig

Logan Neely

Christian Nisoli

Rosalinda Pacheco

Stefanie Parsons

Lindsay Peters

Alix Rule

Abbie Schwieder

Ali Upshaw

Samantha Valentine

Baylor Walton

Mckenna Watson

Elizabeth White

Volleyball (8)

Kaitlynn Biassou

Madison Blanco

Uxue Guereca

Alena Moldan

Lauryn Payne

Melissa Walden

Kali Wolf

Elizabeth Woods