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SALUQI CORNER: Saluqi-scholars win individual and team NJCAA and TCCAA honors

By Keith Gentry 

Saluqi Corner

Twenty-four Saluqi student-athletes receive All-Academic honors from TCCAA

Twenty-four Southwest Tennessee Community College student-athletes have been honored for their academic excellence, receiving All-Academic recognition for the academic year 2021-2022 from the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA). 

Leading the five Southwest teams was baseball with nine TCCAA All-Academic honorees that included sophomores Landry Borden, Stephen Dodson, Avery Hastings, Austin Herold, Grant Ream, Tristan Swift and Nick Vaccaco and freshmen Mick Arney and Brady Holloway. Women’s soccer was next with six, followed by softball with five and men’s and women’s basketball with two each.

Soccer recipients were sophomores Charity Baxter, Sara Duke, Olivia Ivey and Brichanise Terrell and freshmen Jannah Greever and Lauren Hebert. Representing the softball team were sophomores Makayla Ables, Taylor Chastain, Chloe Dunn, and McKaylan Tuten and freshman Shelbe Sisk. Sophomores Trinity Taylor and Breundria Ward were the recipients from the women’s basketball team while sophomore Juan Cajelli and freshman Fabian Nelson were the men’s basketball team’s honorees.

Sophomores who are repeat recipients of the TCCAA’s All-Academic award are Ream, Swift, Vaccaro (baseball), Ables, Chastain, and Dunn (softball), Duke (soccer), Ward (women’s basketball) and Cajelli (men’s basketball.)

Three Saluqis named first team NJCAA All-Academic

Three Saluqis named first team NJCAA All-AcademicFirst team NJCAA All-Academic students Breundria Ward, Kevin Okins and Tristan Swift

Breundria Ward, Kevin Okins and Tristan Swift earned first team recognition for achieving a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) for the 2021-2022 academic year. Both Swift and Ward are repeat All-Academic recipients.

For the third consecutive year, thirteen Southwest student-athletes were honored as National Junior  College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Academic for their work in the classroom.

Second team selections who earned a 3.80-3.99 GPA were Eli Hammonds and Nick Vaccaro from baseball, Sara Duke and Lauren Hebert from women’s soccer, Chloe Dunn from softball, and Juan Cajelli from men’s basketball. Named to the third team that earned a 3.60-3.79 GPA were Makayla Ables and Taylor Chastain from softball, Charity Baxter from women’s soccer, and Fabian Nelson from men’s basketball. Vaccaro, Duke, and Ables were all repeat All-Academic recipients.

Congratulations to all our Saluqi scholar-athletes!