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IRVINE, Calif. -- Annually one of the best nights of the year, UC Irvine Athletics celebrated the Student-Athlete Awards at the Irvine Barclay Theatre Wednesday night.

A total of 207 Scholar-Athletes were honored as well as specialty award winners, while graduating seniors were presented commencement sashes by Athletic Director Paula Smith and Faculty Athletic Representative Shauhin Talesh.

Women's soccer player Amber Huff and men's volleyball player Brian Garcia were given the Academic Achievement Award, presented to a student-athlete who entered the University as a special admission exception and worked diligently to become a high achieving student, while being a contributing member of their sport.

Men's soccer player Agaton Pourshahidi was named the International Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award recognizes the additional challenges that international students face when studying and competing in intercollegiate athletics.

The Leadership Award went to women's soccer player Alyssa Moore and men's track & field athlete Malcom Overbaugh. The duo exemplified the student-athletes that best engaged with other student-athletes and was involved with the campus community as well as the community surrounding the university.

Women's soccer player Mia Colombini, men's soccer player Justin Conyers and men's track & field athlete Jake Preston were honored as Newcomers of the Year. All three had a perfect 4.0 in their first year as a student-athlete at UC Irvine.

The Dr. David Snow Team GPA Award, named for the former Faculty Athletic Representative, went to the women's golf and women's cross country teams. The teams tied for the highest grade point average, posting over a 3.5 overall.

Academic Unit Awards were presented to the student-Athlete with the highest GPA in each academic unit of campus. Winners also needed to have completed at-least two years of classes at UCI.

Academic Unit Awards
Biological Sciences – Sameen Andar, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field
Business – Nikki Tom, Women's Basketball
Education – Henry McClish, Men's Cross Country/Track & Field
Engineering – Indy De Smet, Women's Volleyball
Graduate Division – Hannah Chau, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field & Erin Tharp, Women's Water Polo
Humanities – Maggie Sczupak, Women's Cross Country/Track &Field
Information & Computer Sciences – Matthew Sah, Men's Tennis
Nursing Science – Olivia Liuson, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field
Pharmaceutical Sciences – Laura Sangiacomo, Women's Track & Field
Physical Sciences – Jacob Bustamante, Men's Cross Country/Track & Field
Public Health – Zachary Baxter, Men's Water Polo
Social Ecology – Halli Stewart, Women's Soccer & Tea Akiaten, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field
Social Sciences – Ellen Veargason, Women's Volleyball

Team GPA Awards were presented to the student-athlete with the highest GPA in each sport.
Top Team GPAs
Baseball – Michael Pirrello
Men's Basketball – Pierre Crockrell II
Women's Basketball – Nikki Tom
Men's Golf – Jin Nakao
Women's Golf – Jasmine Chen
Men's Tennis – Matthew Sah
Women's Tennis – Haily Huynh
Men's Cross Country – Henry McClish
Women's Cross Country – Tea Akiaten
Men's Track & Field – Jake Preston
Women's Track & Field – Deana Davis
Women's Indoor Track – Deana Davis
Men's Soccer – Justin Conyers
Women's Soccer – Mia Colombini
Men's Volleybal – Doug Dahm
Women's Volleyball – Indy De Smet
Women's Water Polo – Jensine Bugelli
Men's Water Polo – Jacob Pyle

SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Baseball (18)
Andre Antone, Ryder Brooks, Chase Call, James Castagnola, Abraham Garcia-Pacheco, Dub Gleed, Ryan Guidi, Auggie Gutierrez, Sean Higgins, Jacob King, Thomas McCaffrey, Cole McGowan, Michael Pirrello, Nick Rincover, Luke Spillane, Jacob Stinson, Finnegan Wall, Cameron Wheeler

Men's Basketball (6)
Dawson Baker, Pierre Crockrell II, Bent Leuchten, Akiva McBirney-Griffin, Devin Tillis, Ofure Ujadughele
 
Women's Basketball (3)
Nevaeh Dean, Amelia Scharpf, Nikki Tom

Men's Cross Country (9)
Lukas Amare, Jacob Bustamante, Zeid Hussain, , Henry McClish, Jason Messner, AJ Sager, Juan Sanchez, Joshua Schuld, Cameron Smith

Women's Cross Country (18)
Tea Akiaten, Sameen Andar, Makena Castillo, Hannah Chau, Madison Elliott, Nikki Fulcomer, Stella Knobbe, Olivia Liuson, Claire Livengood, Evelin Meza, Diane Molina, Hana Nip, McKenna Paulson, Cathy Salazar-Gasca, Maggie Sczupak, Roxane Thomas, Laura Yontz, Sophia Zago
 
Men's Golf (4)
Rei Harashima, Joshua Lane, Jin Nakao, Darien Zhao
 
Women's Golf (9)
Kiana Briggs, Olivia Canales, Jasmine Chen, Gabby Gonzalez, Charlotte Ryoo, Megan Yang, Coco Yang, Sherri Yang, Nicole Zhang
 
Men's Soccer (14)
Mario Anaya, Samuel Atiye, Cody Aung, Juan Barragan-Manzo, Eddy Berumen, Noah Clarkson, Justin Conyers, Rafael Espinosa, Ricardo Ibarra, Josh Kenworthy, Francesco Montanile, Agaton Pourshahidi, Roman Warren, Mathias Winum
 
Women's Soccer (21)
Savanna Arruda, Emilie Castagna, Ella Colombini, Mia Colombini, Gianna Creighton, Suus De Bakker, Laila El Behery, Tati Fung, Alena Garcia, Sophie Gillies, Niko Hadzibabic, Marissa LeVine, Desiree Mendoza, Alyssa Moore, Mihaela Perez, Lilli Rask, Kiera Smeenge, Halli Stewart, Autumn Thompkins, Alyssa Wheeler, Laurynn Ziller
 
Men's Tennis (5)
Ali Amiri, Brandon Park, Matthew Sah, Thomas Smart, Noah Zamora
 
Women's Tennis (11)
Alyssia Fossorier, Emily Fowler, Asha Gidwani, Mikaela Hinton, Haily Huynh, Nour Khayat, Kayla Meraz, Jenna Schlatter, Larissa Teramura, Mia Totah, Cydney Yamamoto
 
Men's Track & Field (10)
Bryce Barker, Brandon Burns, Max Daniels, Josh Farmer, Malcolm Overbaugh, Jake Preston, Jarel Sayles, Ty Sheridan, Julian Sotelo, Quincy Stokes
 
Women's Track & Field (17)
Jackie Acosta, Chaselyn Amos, Lauren Aquino, Nadia Combs-Mahone, DeAna Davis, Naiya Edwards, Sienna Frederiksen, Journee Harvey, Reina Kabbara, Emma McCarthy, Alana Odom, Phoebe Roach, Jolie Robinson, Mikaela Rosario, Laura Sangiacomo, Lauren Thai, Deandra Tyler
 
Men's Volleyball (17)
Conner Dahm, Doug Dahm, William D'Arcy, Cole Gillis, Gustavo Gomes, Maxim Grigoriev, Hilir Henno, Joe Karlous, Davis Lau, Cade Martin, Cole Power, Francesco Sani, Aiden Schulten, Akhil Tangutur, Stefan Vartigov, Patrick Vorenkamp, Beck Weber
 
Women's Volleyball (16)
Marianna Bertolone, Ally Bolden, Bailey Darnell, Indy De Smet, Alexia Gruszczynski, Ofure Iselen, Carrissa MacDonald, Kendra MacDonald, Elizabeth Miller, Kelly Negron, Onye Ofoegbu, Sofia Skukan, Jesse Szymanski, Joy Umeh, Ellen Veargason, Keelan Williams
 
Men's Water Polo (12)
Zachary Baxter, Stewart Campbell, Thomas Cass, Jasper Dale, Zayd Mahmoud, Samuel Otta, Jacob Pyle, Nick Rogers, Archer Sauer, Garrett Selby, Jack Stevens, Whittaker Worland
 
Women's Water Polo (17)
Brooke Banta, Jensine Bugelli, Kennedy East, Elena Flynn, Jordan Frost, Olivia Giolas, Delaney Kuepper, Jessica Lynch, Alexandra Mould, Maeve Murphy, Gabby Norris, Madi O'Hara, Portia Schiavone, Mica Schiavone, Kili Skibby, Faith Tedesco, Erin Tharp