Santana softball not only won the CIF championship this year, but they had the most athletes honored with placement on the U-T San Diego All-Academic Team of the high school ball teams in Santee.
The U-T and county Office of Education invited all CIF San Diego section schools to take part. Athletes with cumulative, weighted grade-point averages of 3.0 or better were listed—and will get certificates.
Some 7,482 student-athletes were honored in Saturday’s sports section, including 23 ball players and many other athletes from Santee. See the full list here.
Here are the high-performing Santee ball players and their GPAs
BASEBALL
Santana
- Tyler Browning, Sr., 3.80
- Darren Diaz, Sr., 3.70
- Andrew Engaldo, Jr., 4.50
- Peter Franchak, Jr., 3.20
- Timothy Huson, Sr., 4.20
- Alan Strong, Jr., 3.80.
- William Bennett, Jr., 3.40
- David A Hesslink, Sr., 4.77
- Noah Ortiz, Jr., 3.50
- Garrett Oswald, Jr., 4.10
- Lucas Peterson, Jr., 3.93
- Hayden Schilling, Jr., 3.40
- Trenton Toplikar, Jr., 4.37
Santana
- Annalynn Barkhimer, Sr., 4.10
- Kylie Brase, Jr., 3.10
- Alexandra Breidt Darrock, Sr., 4.60
- Cathryn Canciller, Sr., 3.50
- Savanah Fenn, Jr., 3.10
- Bridgette Fries, Sr., 3.60
- Kaytlin Grable, Sr., 4.00
- Tara Grennan, Sr., 4.60
- Ashlee Groover, Jr., 3.90
- Kendra Kuper, Sr., 4.60
- Ariel Rasmusson, Sr., 3.50
- Amber Schisler, Sr., 4.50
West Hills
- Kayla Araujo, Sr., 3.43
- Kathryn Byrd, Jr., 4.03
- Brianna Lotze, Jr., 4.50
- Alexandra Vlahos, Sr., 3.75
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