LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (Nov. 4, 2022) - Acknowledging the outstanding contributions in their respective fall sports, the SCIAC, as selected by their coaches, have announced their All-Conference Awards. The following Beavers were honored for their excellence this season:
Men's Cross Country All-Conference Awards
Senior
Gaurav Phanse (Fremont, Calif. / Dublin) was recognized with the Ray Adkinson Award. Boasting the program's third-fastest 8-kilometer time ever run, Phanse is a Mechanical Engineering major with a minor in Aerospace Engineering who has conducted research at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies to determine whether clusters of CubeSats could autonomously perform orbital reconfigurations in low-Earth orbit. The Adkinson award is given to the senior student-athlete who best exemplifies the conference's high ideals during their association with SCIAC Cross Country. The recipient must qualify through athletic ability, personal characteristics such as leadership, determination, sportsmanship, and academics. This award is named after the initial conference champion in SCIAC Cross Country history, with Ray Adkinson (Pomona) winning the initial men's SCIAC title in 1915.
Second Team All-SCIAC: junior
Joey Litvin (Ardmore, Pa. / Lower Merion)
Women's Cross Country All-Conference Awards
The following four scholar-athletes were named Second Team All-SCIAC:
Men's Soccer All-Conference Awards
- First Team All-SCIAC: freshman Ishaan Mantripragada (Saratoga, Calif. / Harker School)
- Second Team All-SCIAC and Newcomer of the Year: freshman Etienne Casanova (San Jose, Calif. / Saratoga)
Women's Soccer All-Conference Awards
The Award of Distinction went to senior
Eve Fine (Locust Valley, N.Y. / Friends Academy) from Caltech in recognition of her exemplary achievements through her higher education experience, specifically her significant contributions representing her school and serving her community through advancing sportsmanship, balancing sports and major personal academic achievement, demonstrating behavior that models efforts of inclusion and contributing to a sense of civility in society. Willing to split time in goal with a pair of teammates throughout the season, Fine was instrumental in establishing the Beavers' team culture in the most successful season of the nascent program's five-year existence. She is a student representative for her residential house on campus and has conducted a pair of Fellowships in Bioengineering to develop acid-tolerant biosensors for rapidly acting antidepressants, including being published as an author on multiple scholastic papers.
Second Team All-SCIAC: junior
Kathryn Thompson (Roseville, Calif. / Granite Bay)
The Beavers staff, led by first year head coach
Jen Clark, picked up Coaching Staff of the Year honors after winning not just the first SCIAC game in program history, but recording a pair of wins and two ties for a 2-8-2 final record, including three narrow one-goal defeats, and slashing their goal difference three times over from the 2021 season.
Volleyball All-Conference Awards
Second Team All-SCIAC junior
Halle Blend (Farmers Branch, Texas / Hockaday). Reached 1,226 sets in her career, just 109 away from a program record.
