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Skelly & Williams Honored; Big West Academic Honors To Air On ESPN 3
3/2/2021 12:21:00 PM | Baseball, Women's Track & Field
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif.— CSUN's Sean Skelly and Brandy Williams have been selected as the Matadors' Big West Scholar-Athletes of the Year the conference announced Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, Mar. 3, Skelly and Williams will be among the 22 Big West student-athletes that will be featured in the Big West Academic honors, a half-hour show on ESPN3, which will highlight the exploits of both current and former student-athletes who push the boundaries of being a Scholar-Athlete. The show will begin airing at Noon PT. ESPN3 is accessible on computers, smartphone tablets, and streaming devices through the ESPN app and ESPN.com.
The show will be produced by Big West Productions and hosted by Courtney Sweet. Big West Commissioner Dan Butterly also joins to discuss the academic and athletic achievements that make these 22 exceptional student-athletes from member institutions Cal Poly, CSU Bakersfield, Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Hawai'i, Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara worthy of accolades.
Skelly, a catcher for the CSUN baseball team, hit .296 and slugged .481 in a shortened 2020 season, while leading his team in on-base percentage (.432) and walks (33) in 2019. In 2019, Skelly was chosen second-team All-Conference as he finished third in the Big West in walks, sixth in on-base percentage and eighth in home runs.
A Public Administration Master's student, he was named to the Big West All-Academic as a junior. He is currently looking towards obtaining his degree in the Spring of 2022 before he pursues professional opportunities in baseball as either a player or coach.
Williams is a shot put and discus specialist for the CSUN track and field team. Williams won the Big West Conference title in the shot put in both 2018 and 2019. A two-time Academic All-Conference selection, Williams was named as an All-Academic athlete for the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Track & Field season by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). She is among the top three in school history in both the indoor and outdoor shot put in school history.
A Master's student in Counseling Marriage and Family Therapy, Williams was the recipient of the Vanguard Can't Stop Me Now Award during the spring of 2019, an award given by CSUN's Africana Studies Department. She hopes to participate in Olympic Qualifiers for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics before transitioning to work as a teacher.
The 22 honorees hail from five different states and four foreign countries on three continents. The 22 are comprised of nine graduate students and 13 undergrads. Their interests run the gamut from Engineering and Economics to Neurobiology and Creative Writing. The collective GPA is 3.7 while 13 of 18 Big West sponsored sports are represented.
The following CSUN student-athletes have been named Big West Scholar-Athletes since the Matadors joined the conference in 2002.
2021: Sean Skelly (BSB) & Brandy Williams (WTR)
2020: Danny Trejo (MSOC) & Tori Wilson (WWP)
2019: Andrew Rizeq (MSOC) & Lindsay Kutscher (WSOC)
2018: Felix Mory (MGO) & Monique Griffiths (WTR)
2017: Andre McBride (MTR) & Nicole Thompson (WSOC)
2016: Shane Steffes (MSOC) & Maylynn Mitchell (SB)
2015: Jordan Taylor (MTR) & Marisa Young (WWP)
2014: Yarden Azulay (MSOC) & Casey Hinger (WVB)
2013: Joe Franco (MSOC) & Chloe McDaniel (WSOC)
2012: Joe Franco (MSOC) & Jennifer Sher (WTN)
2011: Nick Delio (MGF) & Jillian Stapf (WWP)
2010: Moises Gomez (MSOC) & Kristin McLaughlin (WWP)
2009: Ryan Pineda (BSB) & Jaclyn Rymer (SB)
2008: Kevin Guppy (MSOC) & Susie Mischenko (WSOC)
2007: Terrell Jones (MBB) & Megan Ching (WBB)
2006: Brian Waite (MVB) & Megan Ching (WBB)
2005: Jason Romero (MTF) & Jennifer Dishner (SB)
2004: Doug English (MVB) & Comfort Agara (WTF)
2003: Yossi Raz (MSOC) & Sondra Milchiker (SB)
2002: Eckhard Walter (MVB) & Laura Walter (WVB)
~#UniteTheValley~
Link To Watch The Show
NORTHRIDGE, Calif.— CSUN's Sean Skelly and Brandy Williams have been selected as the Matadors' Big West Scholar-Athletes of the Year the conference announced Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, Mar. 3, Skelly and Williams will be among the 22 Big West student-athletes that will be featured in the Big West Academic honors, a half-hour show on ESPN3, which will highlight the exploits of both current and former student-athletes who push the boundaries of being a Scholar-Athlete. The show will begin airing at Noon PT. ESPN3 is accessible on computers, smartphone tablets, and streaming devices through the ESPN app and ESPN.com.
The show will be produced by Big West Productions and hosted by Courtney Sweet. Big West Commissioner Dan Butterly also joins to discuss the academic and athletic achievements that make these 22 exceptional student-athletes from member institutions Cal Poly, CSU Bakersfield, Cal State Fullerton, CSUN, Hawai'i, Long Beach State, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara worthy of accolades.
Skelly, a catcher for the CSUN baseball team, hit .296 and slugged .481 in a shortened 2020 season, while leading his team in on-base percentage (.432) and walks (33) in 2019. In 2019, Skelly was chosen second-team All-Conference as he finished third in the Big West in walks, sixth in on-base percentage and eighth in home runs.
A Public Administration Master's student, he was named to the Big West All-Academic as a junior. He is currently looking towards obtaining his degree in the Spring of 2022 before he pursues professional opportunities in baseball as either a player or coach.
Williams is a shot put and discus specialist for the CSUN track and field team. Williams won the Big West Conference title in the shot put in both 2018 and 2019. A two-time Academic All-Conference selection, Williams was named as an All-Academic athlete for the 2020 NCAA Division I Women's Track & Field season by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). She is among the top three in school history in both the indoor and outdoor shot put in school history.
A Master's student in Counseling Marriage and Family Therapy, Williams was the recipient of the Vanguard Can't Stop Me Now Award during the spring of 2019, an award given by CSUN's Africana Studies Department. She hopes to participate in Olympic Qualifiers for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics before transitioning to work as a teacher.
The 22 honorees hail from five different states and four foreign countries on three continents. The 22 are comprised of nine graduate students and 13 undergrads. Their interests run the gamut from Engineering and Economics to Neurobiology and Creative Writing. The collective GPA is 3.7 while 13 of 18 Big West sponsored sports are represented.
The following CSUN student-athletes have been named Big West Scholar-Athletes since the Matadors joined the conference in 2002.
2021: Sean Skelly (BSB) & Brandy Williams (WTR)
2020: Danny Trejo (MSOC) & Tori Wilson (WWP)
2019: Andrew Rizeq (MSOC) & Lindsay Kutscher (WSOC)
2018: Felix Mory (MGO) & Monique Griffiths (WTR)
2017: Andre McBride (MTR) & Nicole Thompson (WSOC)
2016: Shane Steffes (MSOC) & Maylynn Mitchell (SB)
2015: Jordan Taylor (MTR) & Marisa Young (WWP)
2014: Yarden Azulay (MSOC) & Casey Hinger (WVB)
2013: Joe Franco (MSOC) & Chloe McDaniel (WSOC)
2012: Joe Franco (MSOC) & Jennifer Sher (WTN)
2011: Nick Delio (MGF) & Jillian Stapf (WWP)
2010: Moises Gomez (MSOC) & Kristin McLaughlin (WWP)
2009: Ryan Pineda (BSB) & Jaclyn Rymer (SB)
2008: Kevin Guppy (MSOC) & Susie Mischenko (WSOC)
2007: Terrell Jones (MBB) & Megan Ching (WBB)
2006: Brian Waite (MVB) & Megan Ching (WBB)
2005: Jason Romero (MTF) & Jennifer Dishner (SB)
2004: Doug English (MVB) & Comfort Agara (WTF)
2003: Yossi Raz (MSOC) & Sondra Milchiker (SB)
2002: Eckhard Walter (MVB) & Laura Walter (WVB)
~#UniteTheValley~
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