CCAA Athletes of the Year
2011-12 Male Athlete of the Year
Kyle Souza, Chico State (Men's Golf)
A senior from Livermore, Souza helped lead the Wildcats’
men’s golf team to a national championship runner-up trophy
this past season. The three-time All-American was the 2010-11 NCAA
Division II champion. He was the lone Division II finalist for the
Ben Hogan Award, presented annually to collegiate golf’s top
player.
This past season, Souza finished
first in the top 10 in every tournament he competed in, posting six
individual medalist honors, three second-place showings, while
leading the Wildcats’ to six team wins.
Souza tied for the CCAA title
before losing in a playoff and finished sixth at the Amir Ari
Invitational, which featured most of the nation’s top
Division I programs. He finished ahead of four players ranked among
Division I’s top-10 at the time. Souza also finished second
at the West/Central Super Regional. He boasted a stroke average of
70.9 and 23 sub-par rounds out of 33 this year.
Souza, the 2011 NCAA champion,
won eight career tournaments and broke the school record with 22
top-5 and 31 top-10 career finishes. Named to the All-America team
for the third straight time this week, Souza is a four-time
All-West Region and All-CCAA selection.
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Past Winners: CCAA Male Athletes of the Year
(1982-present)
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2011-12 Female Athlete of the Year
Samantha Middleborn, Cal State San Bernardino (Volleyball)
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A senior from Rialto, Middleborn
was the 2011 consensus women’s volleyball NCAA Division II
National Player of the Year for a second consecutive season, a
first in CCAA history. She led the nation in blocks/set, second in
hitting percentage and seventh in points/set—the only player
in the country to rank inside the top 7 in each of those
categories.
A five-time conference player of
the week and two-time CCAA Player of the Year, she led her team to
a 30-0 regular season record – Cal State San
Bernardino’s first unbeaten regular season—a fourth
consecutive conference championship in her career and the
program’s sixth straight.
Middleborn led the Coyotes to
the Elite Eight for the fourth consecutive year and helped them to
hosting rights for the Elite Eight, where top-ranked Cal State San
Bernardino lost to four-time NCAA Champion, Concordia-St. Paul in
the title match.
A three-time All-American with
five career All-American honors, Middleborn was granted a tryout
for the 2012 U.S. national team. She completed her career with five
school records including hitting percentage and block assists. She
also established CCAA single-season records for career hitting
percentage and block assists in a season.
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Past Winners: CCAA Female Athletes of the Year
(1982-present)
