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| Junior
forward Christian Soto was named to the 2007-08 Big West
Academic All-Conference Team. |
(April 8, 2008) – Four members of the
UC Riverside men's and women's basketball teams were honored
today with inclusion on the 2007-08 Big West Academic All-Conference
Team for winter sports: Christian
Soto on the men's squad and Katerina Glyniadaki,
Courtney
Good and Jessie Schmuckal for the women.
To be eligible for the All-Academic team, student-athletes
have to maintain a 3.2 cumulative grade point average, have
attained a sophomore standing academically and competed in
at least 50 percent of their team’s contests.
Soto is a junior art/theatre major who started 29 of 30 games
for the Highlanders this season and was second on the team
in rebounding averaging 4.2 per game. He averaged 5.1 points
per contest on 49.0 percent shooting from the field and paced
UCR with 15 blocks on the year. He was also named the co-recipient
of the Big West Best Hustle Player award.
Glyniadaki is a junior communications studies major who played
in 14 games for UC Riverside in 2007-08 and averaged 2.5 points
per game connecting on 56.5 percent of her field goal attempts.
Good, a senior business major, saw action in 18 games for
the Highlanders and posted a two-to-one assist to turnover
ratio in 4.7 minutes per game. Schmuckal is a sophomore history/administrative
major who averaged 4.1 minutes of play in 18 games for UCR
grabbing 8.0 rebounds per 40 minutes on the season.
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