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Baseball: Saints land ten on academic team

May 8, 2007

Spokane, WA – A total of 18 student athletes, including ten from Saint Martin’s, have been named to the 2007 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Baseball Academic all-conference team.

Tip Wonhoff, a senior political science major, leads the Saints with a 3.93 grade point average, second in the GNAC. He is one of seven repeaters named to the team, all of whom are from Saint Martin’s.

Wonhoff, Maki Smith, Curtis Thibault, and Brett Efaw were selected for the third year in a row. Nick Bolthouse, Richard O’Neill, and Adam Siler were selected for the second time. Tanner Gronowski, Shane Schoeneberg, and Vince Maughan all made it for the first time.

Smith is a history major from Shoreline, WA who has maintained a 3.76 grade point average. Thibault, a senior from Cashmere, WA, has a 3.72 GPA as a computer science and mathematics major. A senior from Boise, ID, Efaw is a mathematics major with a 3.54 grade point average.

Bolthouse, a junior from Eagle, ID, is maintaining a 3.49 GPA as a business major while O’Neill, a senior form Edmonds, WA, posted a 3.76 as a criminal justice and English major. Siler is a biology major from Port Orchard, WA who had a 3.31 grade point average.

Gronowski, a junior out of Eagle, ID, is also a biology major and has a 3.71 grade point average. Schoeneberg is a sophomore from Kennewick, WA who has maintained a 3.27 GPA as a criminal justice major. Maughan, a senior from Bellevue, WA, is a business major with a 3.39 GPA.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Saints have landed the most athletes on the team. Ten athletes on this year’s team is a program high. They have had no less then five members on the Academic all-conference team every year and eight players in each of the last two years.

In order to qualify for the academic all-conference team, student-athletes must carry a 3.20 grade-point average, participate in at least 50 percent of their team's games, and be in at least their second year of competition at their institution.