Page 16 Delmarva African American Pride Magazine Summer 2017

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced its Commissioner’s All - Academic Team for 2017 on June 23rd. There where 72 Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks among the 1,209 honored for their academic success. The team recognizes sophomore and senior student-athletes at the 14 MEAC colleges with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or bet-ter.

The following Hawks were recognized: Baseball (14)

Samantha Casarez, Adrienne Guerra, Daeshia Jones, Kiana Peterson, Ciara Walters, and Sara Jo Whaley;

Women’s Tennis (1)

Helina Abbe;

Cross Country/Track & Field (19)

Derrick Cheruiyot, Oussama Chouati, Joshua Dacres, Regyn Davis-Young, Tanise Edwards, Lenneisha Gilbert, Rachel Halmon, Jennaya Hield, Jayla Lane, Shellasia Leitch, Shauntel Lucius, Stanley Meli, Don-isha Porter, Juwan Richardson, Khalil

Rmidi Kimini, Taj Showalter, Kevin Stanford, Dypna Umunakwe, and Tal-yah Winston;

Women’s Volleyball (8)

Lucia Babic, Kirstin Fink, Ra-chel Kayongo, Marta Klafuric, Zuzana Ondruskova, Alana Polk, Mere Serea, and Koya Sowells.

72 Hawks make MEAC 2017 All-Academic Team

Head women’s volleyball coach Toby Rens, the Hawks and Nike partnered to present a Nike Volleyball Camp July 18 - 21 on the University of Maryland Eastern Shore campus in Princess Anne. The Camp was for ages 10-18. It included overnight campers and extended day campers. The program is designed to benefit all

ability levels, from beginners to advanced. Campers were broken up into groups based on skill lev-el. Every aspect of the game was covered, giving participants a solid skill foundation to build upon after camp. Full scrimmages in the eve-nings allowed campers to put their skills to the test in the game situa-tions.

Nike Volleyball Camp held on campus