{"id":59377,"date":"2020-04-09T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=59377"},"modified":"2020-04-09T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T22:16:43","slug":"in-the-student-spotlight-april-10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-april-10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Student Spotlight: April 10, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these students<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community?<\/p>\n<p>E-mail your announcements to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:Inside@nau.edu\">Inside@nau.edu<\/a>, or use our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/news-tip\/\">online submission form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swimming and diving junior <strong>Jenny Cheetham<\/strong> was named to the All-America Team for the 2019-20 season by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. She is the first All-American Lumberjack for diving and only the second All-American athlete in Northern Arizona University\u2019s program history. Cheetham received four Athlete of the Week awards from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), earned a gold medal on the 1-meter boards at WAC Championships and helped snag the team\u2019s seventh straight conference title before qualifying for NCAA Championships.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Northern Arizona University<\/strong> basketball and indoor track and field teams\u2014both men\u2019s and women\u2019s\u2014earned 47 Big Sky Winter All-Academic awards, placing 11 more athletes than last year. To qualify, Lumberjacks participated in at least half of the team\u2019s competitions\u00a0 (or indoor conference championships for track and field), achieved a 3.2 cumulative grade point average at the conclusion of the most recently completed term and completed at least one academic term at their current Big Sky institution. Of the 47 awardees, 28 hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher. With the previous recognition of 40 student-athletes last season, NAU Athletics totals 87 honorees for the 2019-20 academic year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bernie Andre<\/li>\n<li>Luke Avdalovic<\/li>\n<li>Brooks DeBisschop<\/li>\n<li>Keith Haymon<\/li>\n<li>Nik Mains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacey Bailey<\/li>\n<li>Peyton Carroll<\/li>\n<li>Brianna Lehew<\/li>\n<li>Caitlin Malvar<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Orndoff<\/li>\n<li>Nina Radford<\/li>\n<li>Khiarica Rasheed<\/li>\n<li>Emily Rodabaugh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Men\u2019s Indoor Track &amp; Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geordie Beamish<\/li>\n<li>Carter Bracken<\/li>\n<li>Karsen Burke<\/li>\n<li>Cade Burks<\/li>\n<li>Tyler Day<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Easton<\/li>\n<li>Blaise Ferro<\/li>\n<li>Parker Joens<\/li>\n<li>Jacob Kaufman<\/li>\n<li>Jack Normand<\/li>\n<li>Wil Peralta<\/li>\n<li>Beau Prince<\/li>\n<li>Theo Quax<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Raff<\/li>\n<li>Mitchell Small<\/li>\n<li>Erick Thompson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s Indoor Track &amp; Field<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jesselyn Bries<\/li>\n<li>Alaina Diggs<\/li>\n<li>Pipi Eitel<\/li>\n<li>Jenna Figueroa<\/li>\n<li>Jada Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Kenashalee Kerr<\/li>\n<li>Meredith Kiekentveld<\/li>\n<li>Lily Margolis<\/li>\n<li>Marissa Milos<\/li>\n<li>Bryn Morley<\/li>\n<li>Dana Padget<\/li>\n<li>Delaney Rasmussen<\/li>\n<li>Annika Reiss<\/li>\n<li>Abby Riordan<\/li>\n<li>Laurel Taylor<\/li>\n<li>Carly Watts<\/li>\n<li>Courtney Weisenberger<\/li>\n<li>Madeline Wilson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/in-the-student-spotlight-april-10-2020\/\">Kudos to these students Do you have a spotlight item to share with the NAU community? E-mail your announcements to\u00a0Inside@nau.edu, or use our\u00a0online submission form. Swimming and diving junior Jenny Cheetham was named to the All-America Team for the 2019-20 season by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. She is the first&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}