RUTHERFORD, N.J. – The periodical Diverse Issues in Higher Education has selected 18 Felician University student-athletes as 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars. The award winners come from the sports of men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross-country, women's bowling, men's and women's basketball, women's lacrosse, baseball and softball, and were announced in the Apr. 5 issue of the magazine.
Diverse Issues established the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Program, named for the late tennis star, in 1992 to honor outstanding undergraduate students of diverse and foreign backgrounds. Each winner must be a non-freshman who competes in an intercollegiate sport, maintains a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.20, and is active on his/her campus or in the community.
Felician returned to the program in 2017 after a one-year hiatus. Its 18 honorees are one shy of the school record set last year. The Golden Falcons earned at least 10 winners for the sixth consecutive year in which they have participated.
Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars are named annually, and Felician's 2018 honorees are listed below. This marks Felician's 15th year of participation in the program.
The Apr. 5, 2018, issue of Diverse Issues also commemorates the 25th anniversary of Ashe's death.
Felician is a member of NCAA Division II. Thirteen of the Golden Falcons' 14 varsity intercollegiate sports compete in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference; women's bowling is an associate member of the East Coast Conference.
| Name | Sport |
YR
|
Major(s) |
GPA
|
Tm.
|
Hometown/HS |
| Junior Borja | Men's Soccer |
SO
|
Business Admininistration |
3.24
|
3rd
|
Kearny, N.J./Kearny |
| Joel Superville | Men's Soccer |
SR
|
Marketing |
3.32
|
3rd
|
D'Abadie, Trinidad & Tobago/St. Mary's College |
| Kojo Yeboah | Men's Soccer |
SR
|
Social & Behav. Sciences |
3.70
|
1st
|
Teaneck, N.J./Teaneck |
| Katina Kozlowski | Women's Soccer |
SR
|
Accounting |
3.34
|
HM
|
Milton, N.Y./Our Lady of Lourdes |
| Paulina Calero | Women's Volleyball |
JR
|
Criminal Justice |
3.44
|
3rd
|
El Centro, Calif./Southwest |
| Fermando Gomez | Men's Cross-Country | SR | Biology | 3.21 | 3rd | Secaucus, N.J./Secaucus |
| Valentina Gonzalez | Women's Cross-Country | SO | Communications | 3.84 | 2nd | Wood-Ridge, N.J./Wood-Ridge |
| Michelle Gulino | Women's Bowling |
SR
|
Criminal Justice | 3.97 |
1st
|
Howell, N.J./Howell |
| Terrell Spaulding | Men's Basketball |
JR/SR
|
Accounting |
3.28
|
3rd
|
Paterson, N.J./Paterson Eastside |
| Jamar Redmond | Men's Basketball |
SR
|
Marketing |
3.27
|
3rd
|
Roselle, N.J./Abraham Clark |
| Treanda Foster | Women's Basketball |
SR
|
Biology |
3.56
|
2nd
|
Bronx, N.Y./John F. Kennedy |
| Danelle Gibson | Women's Basketball |
JR/SR
|
Business Admininistration |
3.34
|
3rd
|
Bronx, N.Y./Cardinal Spellman |
| Marta Moix | Women's Basketball |
SR
|
Biology |
3.32
|
4th
|
Madrid, Spain/John Carroll School [Md.] |
| Dana Randolph-Pryce | Women's Lacrosse | SO | Education | 3.67 | 1st | Lawrenceville, N.J./Lawrence |
| Qamar Smith | Women's Lacrosse | SO | Nursing | 3.74 | 1st | Carteret, N.J./Rahway |
| Brenden Cuni | Baseball | SR | Criminal Justice | 3.91 | 1st | New Rochelle, N.Y./Iona Prep |
| Mia Montoya | Softball | JR | Elem. Ed./English | 3.42 | 3rd | Las Vegas, Nev./John F. Kennedy [Calif.] |
| Jeannette Roldan | Softball | SR | Business Administration | 3.50 | 2nd | Hesperia, Calif./Oak Hills |
