CCAA Scholar-Athletes of the Year
2011-12 Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Elias Tuma, UC San Diego (Baseball)
UC San
Diego’s Elias Tuma is the second male student-athlete from
UCSD in as many years to earn the CCAA’s Male Scholar-Athlete
of the Year award. The announcement comes just weeks after he was
selected to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Division II
Baseball Team for the second year in a row. Tuma, a native of
Fremont, Calif., earned a spot on the Academic All-America Second
Team, possessing a remarkable 3.93 cumulative GPA as a Cognitive
Science major at UCSD's Muir College.
The senior
right-handed relief pitcher capped off a superb playing career by
appearing in 28 games in 2012, giving him 82 trips to the hill over
his four seasons, the most by any Triton in program history. Tuma
led the CCAA in appearances for the second consecutive season and
he also registered three saves in 2012 to finish with 13 in his
career, which ranks second on UCSD's all-time list.
Overall in 2012,
Tuma finished with a 3.83 ERA and struck out 37 batters over 40
innings of work and never walked more than one batter in a single
outing. He totaled three combined shutouts, the most on the
Triton’s pitching staff this season. In 19 conference
outings, he posted a stellar 1.86 ERA and held opponents to a .237
batting average, and on Apr. 1 at Cal State Stanislaus, he struck
out a career-high six hitters.
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Past
Winners: CCAA
Male Scholar-Athletes of the Year (1989-present)
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2011-12 Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Keala Peterson, Sonoma State (Volleyball)
Sonoma State’s Keala Peterson
becomes the first female student-athlete in SSU’s history to
earn the CCAA’s Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
Last December, the native of Sebastopol, Calif. was also tabbed as
the Capital One Division II Academic All-America of the Year for
NCAA Division II volleyball, which is the nation’s top
scholastic honor. She joined five other Division II volleyball
student-athletes on the Capital One Academic All-America First
Team, holding a 3.96 grade point average as a double major in
Anthropology and Psychology.
On the court, Peterson earned AVCA
All-American honors for the third straight season after leading the
Seawolves to a program-best 23-7 record, a second-place finish in
the CCAA standings and an appearance in the NCAA Division II West
Region final for the first time in school history. After leading
the CCAA with 380 kills as a senior this past season, the senior
outside hitter was selected to the 2011 All-American Honorable
Mention squad, adding to an already impressive collegiate resume.
She was a Third Team All-American performer as a sophomore in 2009
and an Honorable Mention All-American honoree as a junior in
2010.
Peterson added 249 digs and 51
blocks, securing spots on the CCAA All-Conference and AVCA All-West
Region teams, also for the third consecutive year. She wrapped up
her three-year career in the Seawolf uniform as the school's
all-time leader in kills per set with 3.72, accumulating 1,089
total kills, a mark that is good for fifth on SSU’s all-time
kills list.
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Past
Winners: CCAA
Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year (1989-present)
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