PICTURED ABOVE: Favor Ezewuzie and Kevin Riley were selected as Wheaton's Jack Swartz Award honorees for spring 2020.
Wheaton, Ill. – Several Wheaton student-athletes from Thunder spring sports have been recognized for their efforts in the classroom by the CCIW. The 2020 CCIW Academic All-Conference Team for the spring season includes 87 Wheaton student-athletes. The Academic All-Conference team consists of sophomores, juniors and seniors from CCIW member institutions who achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
Despite the cancellation of spring competition during COVID-19, the CCIW continues the CCIW Academic All-Conference Team and Jack Swartz Award for spring sports, utilizing each team's roster at the start of the spring season.
Two Thunder student-athletes earned recognition as the school's spring recipients of the
Jack Swartz Award.
Favor Ezewuzie of the women's track and field team was Wheaton's female honoree of the Jack Swartz Award and
Kevin Riley of the Thunder men's track and field team was Wheaton's male recipient. Ezewuzie is a three-time time indoor track & field All-American in 2020 and a 12-time All-American in her career. She is an Elementary Education major with a 3.71 cumulative grade point average. Riley, a 2020 USTFCCCA indoor track & field All-American in 2020, is a sophomore mathematics major at Wheaton with a 3.81 cumulative grade point average.
The Jack Swartz Award is given to one male and one female athlete from each conference school at the conclusion of each of the three athletic seasons (fall, winter and spring). The honor is given by the CCIW and each of the eight schools in the league picks their own representatives. The winners from each school must earn a varsity letter in his/her sport and have a grade point average of at least 3.50. The award is named after the late Jack Swartz, a former Wheaton student-athlete, coach and athletic administrator who served as the first Commissioner of the CCIW until his death in 1998.
SPRING CCIW ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE
Baseball
Bjorn Bostrom
Jacob Cassel
Kevin Champlin
Graham Core
AJ Dhus
Christian Gibbs
Cale Lewis
Bobby Oates
James Ocenasek
Joel Pierce
Sam Reichert
Noah Ritchie
Luke Roudabush
David Solfelt
Jesse Welch
Men's Golf
Ben Blasé
Calvin Block
Joshua Chung
Cooper Williamson
Softball
Abby Boss
Claire Busch
Janette Oh
Maddy Whitmer
Sam Woods
Men's Tennis
Anderson Park
Alex Winters
Jeremiah Yi
Men's Outdoor Track and Field
Chris Albert
Ethan Bert
David Bradley
Peter Bradley
Joe Caraway
Don Crowder
Jonathan Dahlager
David Dischinger
Abram Erickson
Thomas Everest
Josiah Gilbert
Lars Johnson
Jonah Jones
Michael Kitchen
Jason Koehler
Michael Larkin
Andrew Lauber
Andy Margason
Seth Massot
Daniel Morken
Aleks Nosewicz
Simon Peterson
Kevin Riley
Andrew Smith
Colin Swanson
James Van Drie
Peter Van Os
Daniel Wetlesen
Women's Outdoor Track and Field
Elise Alexander
Kaitlin Armstrong
Sophia Becker
Shayne Bower
Taylor Burton
Heidi Considine
Maddie Cote
Anna Cressman
Ella Curry
Emily Dittmer
Favor Ezewuzie
Emma Fisler
Dianna Gagnon
Faith Gilbert
Brianna Hawthorne
Paige Hawthorne
Sydney Jones
Mackenzie Kennedy
Caroline Kimble
Charlotte Matzal
Alyssa Milligan
Morgan Moxley
Grace O'Connell
Hannah Oechsle
Kiersten Oslund
Heidi Rideout
Courtney Rockness
Anna Joy Setran
Catherine Stapleton
Ally Stapleton
Tess Sutton
Kirsten Wikner
