SCIAC Honors 23 Caltech Fall Student-Athletes

After the completion of fall sports season, the SCIAC honors the league's student-athletes who have not only performed well on the playing surface but excelled in the classroom. For the 2011 fall season, there were 23 different Caltech student-athletes who were honored.

Caltech had 12 soccer players earn the accolade, eight representatives from the water polo team, and three from the women’s volleyball squad.

While each sport has different criteria to earn the honor, each student-athlete must have accumulated a cumulative GPA of 3.4 and be a sophomore.

The complete list of Beaver student-athletes who qualified as SCIAC scholar athletes:

Men’s Water Polo
Jack Blackwood (Chemical Engineering) – JR, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Zack Gomez (Computer Science) – SR, Tempe, AZ
Joshua Hardenbrook (Physics) – SR, Tempe, AZ
Adam Khan (Biology & BEM) – SR, Irvine, CA
Thomas Kwong  (Mechanical Engineering) – JR, Irvine, CA
Tim MacDonald (Mechanical Engineering) – JR, Turlock, CA
Sebastian Rojas Mata (Mechanical Engineering) – JR, Escazu, Costa Rica
Daniel Sexton (Biology) – SR, Reno, NV

Men’s Soccer
Mitchel Arene (Electrical Engineering) – JR, Jos, Nigeria
Michael Dieterle (Biology) – SO, Belton, MO
Yishun Dong – (Electrical Engineering & CMS) – JR, Columbus, OH
Kumi Jeje (Mechanical Engineering) – JR, Erinjiyan Ekiti, Nigeria
Alan Menezes (Electrical Engineering) – JR, Saratoga, CA
Alex Runkel (Engineering & Applied Science) – JR, VS-Villigen, Germany
Hunter Sceats (Applied Physics) – JR, Colorado Springs, CO
Dan Sotolongo – (Physics) – JR, Southlake, TX
Mikhail Sushkov (Computer Science) – JR, Cupertino, CA
Sara Venkatesh (Math) – JR, Swarthmore, PA
Alex Wein (Math/Computer Science) – JR, Palo Alto, CA
Rongxiao “Nicky” Zhang (Mechanical Engineering) – JR, Shenzhen, China

Volleyball
Karen Dowling (Electrical Engineering) – JR, Ann Arbor, MI
Lisa Lee (Physics) – SO, Sunnyvale, CA
Paige Logan (Geophysics) – SO, Los Altos, CA