Four student athletes named NJCAA Academic All-Americans
BY JASON COHEN
On Friday, four Bronx Community
College student-athletes
were named National
Junior College Athletic Association
(NJCAA) Academic All-
Americans, the nation’s top academic
honor.
Men’s soccer freshman goalkeeper
Vsevolod Orlov from
Moscow, Russia, earned First
Team Academic All-America
honors, achieving a perfect 4.0
grade point average. He was
one of only two First Team honorees
throughout the City University
of New York Athletic
Conference (CUNYAC).
Women’s volleyball libero
Alondra Mesa from the Bronx
and women’s basketball forward
and fellow sophomore
Kayla Smith from Brooklyn
were named Second Team Academic
All-America winners.
Smith was also named a CUNYAC
Student-Athlete of the
Year Honorable Mention in
May.
Mesa will attend the University
of Houston in the fall, while
Smith will enroll at Hunter College.
Baseball sophomore starting
pitcher Esteban De Los
Santos of the Bronx was named
to the Third Team. He will attend
Brooklyn College.
De Los Santos, Orlov, Mesa
and Smith were named to the
NJCAA Region XV All-Academic
Team earlier this week.
“We’re extremely proud of
Vsevolod, Alondra, Kayla and
Esteban for how hard they
work, how studious and fl exible
they are, and the example the
set before their teammates,”
said Director of Athletics Ryan
McCarthy. “We take great pride
in our students’ academic performance,
particularly given
how challenging 2020 has been.
Credit goes to our student-athletes,
as well as our coaching
and support staffs. Our student
athletes continue to shine
academically at the top of our
league.”
Student-athletes are eligible
to earn academic honors by
achieving an overall GPA of 3.6
or higher for the 2019-20 academic
year. The criteria for the
three All-Academic teams are
listed below:
NJCAA All-Academic First
Team: 4.00 GPA
NJCAA All-Academic Second
Team: 3.80-3.99 GPA
NJCAA All-Academic Third
Team: 3.60-3.79 GPA
Vsevolod_Orlov was was named an NJCAA Academic
All-Americans, the nation’s top academic honor.
Courtesy of Credit Bronx Community College Athletics
Kayla Smith was was named an NJCAA Academic All-
America, the nation’s top academic honor.
Courtesy of Credit Bronx Community College Athletics
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Alondra_Mesa was named an NJCAA Academic All-
Americans, the nation’s top academic honor.
Courtesy of Credit Bronx Community College Athletics
Estaban De Los_Santos was was named an NJCAA Academic
All-Americans, the nation’s top academic honor.
Courtesy of Credit Bronx Community College Athletics
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