18 ‘Eaters earn All-Academic Big West

Eighteen UC Irvine student-athletes earned Academic All-Big West

Conference honors for the winter sports of men’s and women’s

basketball and men’s and women’s swimming and diving, the Big West

Conference Office announced Thursday.

UCI’s honorees are women’s basketball players Lisa Faulkner and

Wendy Gabbe and men’s basketball players Jeff Gloger and Stanislav

Zuzak.

Also swimmers Kristen Buhagiar, Kim Do, Molly Donelan, Jessica

Drake, Stephanie Moore, Sara Showalter, Jackie Snyder, Alison Vass,

Jayme Yahr, Abby Zern, Kevin Olson and John Wingender and divers

Jennifer Marcus and Hermina Nedelescu.

Each honoree maintained a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average or

better and participated in more than 50% of their team’s contests

during the season. To be considered, student-athletes must also reach

sophomore standing.

The Anteaters were among 84 Big West honorees who participated in

winter sports.