Five Lions named to Academic All-GSAC team

COSTA MESA - Five members of Vanguard University’s fall athletic

programs, Erin Bongiorno, Robin Callahan, Matt Swift, Jessica Waltz and

Beth Weidler, were named to the Academic All-Golden State Athletic

Conference team.

Requirements for the Academic All-GSAC include having a junior or

senior academic standing with at least a 3.5 grade point average.

All five athletes will be nominated for the NAIA Scholar-Athlete

award, which has its own qualification standards.

Bongiorno, a member of the VU women’s soccer team, is a junior

majoring in anthropology and has a 3.83 grade point average, second

highest among all GSAC women’s soccer players.

Callahan, a teammate of Bongiorno, is a physical therapy major with a

3.72 GPA.

Swift plays men’s soccer at Vanguard and is a junior majoring in

exercise sports medicine. His 3.83 GPA is second highest among all GSAC

men’s soccer players.

Weidler is a junior liberal studies major for the VU women’s cross

country team and has a GPA of 3.56.

Waltz, a junior, played women’s volleyball for the Lions and compiled

a 3.81 GPA as a liberal studies major.