67 ICC student-athletes earn NJCAA All-Academic honors

FULTON, Miss. – Sixty-seven Itawamba Community College student-athletes have been named to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Academic Teams for the 2024-25 academic year.

To earn NJCAA All-Academic honors, students must have a grade point average (GPA) of 3.60 or higher and completed 24 credit hours. There are three levels of academic honors: First Team, 4.0 GPA; Second Team, 3.80-3.99 GPA; and Third Team, 3.60-3.79 GPA.

The First Team includes 17 ICC student-athletes; 22, Second Team; and 28, Third Team.

The NJCAA All-Academic First Team honorees by sport include:

Baseball – Stone Collier (Fulton)

Men's Soccer – Leander Breidenbruecker (Bizau, Austria), Frank Rodriguez (Fulton), Braden Walters (Caledonia)

Men's Tennis – Sawyer Ritchie (Pontotoc), Knox Waterer (Belden)

Softball – Lauren Brown (Caledonia), Taylar Shands (Jackson, Tenn.)

Volleyball – McLaine Dorr (Gluckstadt), Lexi Pendleton (Germantown, Tenn.), Kaydee Vaughn (Florence, Ala.)

Women's Soccer – Vanessa Baugatz (Berlin, Germany), Gracie Henley (Pontotoc), Annabelle Holman (Amory)

Women's Tennis – Caitlyn Ard (Pontotoc), Rayssa Domingues (Bebedouro, Brazil) and Ainsley Robison (Guntown)

The Second Team honorees are:

Baseball – Jud Files (Mooreville), Jarrett Morris (Nesbit), Nathan Reed (Arlington, Tenn.), Dixon Webb (Oxford), Noah Wilder (Millington, Tenn.), Andrew Williams (Corinth), Aidan Williams (Sardis)

Football – Nick Sherman (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Men's Soccer – William Blake (Fulton), Osvaldo Gonzalez (Olive Branch)

Men's Tennis – Luca Hoffmann (Starkville), Ben Orr (Fulton)

Softball – Ella Duhon (Madison), Ella Lilly (Pontotoc), AB Marlar (Kossuth), Sadie Stegall* (Pontotoc)

Volleyball – Michael Ann East (Oxford), Sadie Stegall* (Pontotoc)

Women's Soccer – Chloe Boyd (Columbus), Maddie Davis (Stonewall), Bella Moore (Olive Branch), Addy Stanford (Tupelo)

Women's Tennis – Ava Logan (Fulton)

The Third Team honorees include:

Baseball – Brayden Billingsley (Saint Amant, La.), Madden Butler (Corinth), Ty Wicker (Oxford), Luke Wood (Saltillo)

Football – Eli Burciaga (Corinth), Ty Davis (Fulton), Johnathan Morris (Starkville)

Men's Soccer – Luke Dearsley (Sydney, Australia), Jorge Favela (New Albany), Roy Gonzalez (Oxford), Micah King (Starkville), Brice Nunnery (Clinton), Blakely Timbes (Corinth), Vincent Walters (Hernando)

Men's Tennis – Joan Mateu Ramis Pascual (Manacor, Spain)

Softball – Alyssa Clifft (Jackson, Tenn.), Zoe Goodman (New Hope), Houston-Rea Grantham (Flora), Laklyn Nichols (Mooreville), Maddie Porter (Ocean Springs)

Volleyball – Bree Lyons (Oxford), Natalie Nix (Florence, Ala.)

Women's Basketball – Alayna Ball (Pontotoc), Malasha Faulkner (Potts Camp), D'Naylah Williams (Kosciusko)

Women's Soccer – Liz McElveen (Olive Branch), Lauren Sharples (Liverpool, England)

Women's Tennis – Lucia Rubio (Valencia, Spain)

*Played two sports

Additionally, eight of ICC's 11 athletic programs received NJCAA Academic Team of the Year Honorable Mention honors. The programs are baseball, men's soccer, men's tennis, softball, volleyball, women's basketball, women's soccer and women's tennis.