2022-23 | Year of the Texas Tiger

8/10/2023 12:57:00 PM

The 2022-23 athletic season for East Texas Baptist University was their finest in program history. The Texas Tigers won four conference championships, participated in eight national tournaments, and swept the American Southwest Conference major awards. This year also brought eight All-Americans, several academic team awards, and ETBU led the ASC in Distinguished Scholar-Athletes. It was a great year to be a Texas Tiger.

ASC MAJOR AWARDS

WOMAN OF THE YEAR | Ashley Croft

FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR | Tristen Maddox

MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR | Sayers Collins

MAN OF THE YEAR | Jake Miller

ATHLETIC TRAINING STAFF OF THE YEAR

SID STAFF OF THE YEAR

COMMUNITY SERVICE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR | Mollie Dittmar

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

ETBU won three ASC Tournament championships along with posting four runner-up finishes. Volleyball, Women's Basketball, Men's Track & Field, and Men's Golf were are runners-up in the ASC Tournament or Championship Meet.

Runners Up: Volleyball, Women's Basketball, Men's Track & Field, Men's Golf

SOFTBALL | 2023 ASC Tournament Champions

BASEBALL | 2023 ASC Regular Season/Tournament Champions

HOCKEY | 2023 TCHC Tournament Champions

MBB | 2023 ASC Tournament Champions

ASC INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

ASC MOST OUTSTANDING TRACK ATHLETE | Brandon Powell

ASC MOST OUTSTANDING FIELD ATHLETE | Neelie Schiel

GRAYCEE MOSLEY | Discus Champion

PAYTON CLARK | 400-Meter Dash Champion

LANDRY PEDROZA | Javelin Champion

Rangel "RJ" MILLER | 400-Meter Dash Champion (2-time)

4x400 METER RELAY CHAMPIONS

4x100 METER RELAY CHAMPIONS

KIP CHILDRESS | Co-ASC Medalist

ASC INDIVIDUAL SPORT MAJOR AWARDS

VOLLEYBALL: Graycee Mosley | ASC Player of the Year | ASC Freshman of the Year

WOMEN'S SOCCER: Hannah Purl | ASC Sportsmanship Athlete of the Year

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY | Daniel Zepeda | ASC Newcomer of the Year

MEN'S BASKETBALL | Darry Moore | ASC Tournament MVP

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL | Mollie Dittmar | ASC Sportsmanship Athlete of the Year

MEN'S TENNIS: Sam Black | ASC East Freshman of the Year

WOMEN'S TENNIS: Addy Seward | ASC Newcomer of the Year

SOFTBALL: Tristen Maddox | ASC Player of the Year

SOFTBALL: Ashley Croft | ASC Tri-Pitcher of the Year

BASEBALL: Jared Hood | ASC Coaching Staff of the Year

BASEBALL: Sayers Collins | ASC Pitcher of the Year (2-time)

BASEBALL: Ben Lea | ASC Player of the Year

NATIONAL TOURNAMENTS

BASEBALL | NCAA World Series (3rd Place), Super Regional & Regional Champions

SOFTBALL | NCAA Regional Host/Participant

MEN'S BASKETBALL | NCAA Tournament 2nd Round

BASS FISHING | MLF National Tournament - 5th Place

ACROBATICS & TUMBLING | NCATA D3 Tournament (3rd place)

BEACH VOLLEYBALL | AVCA Small College Championships (#6 seed)

POM/CHEER | NCA/NDA College Nationals (2nd Place) - Game Day

TRACK & FIELD | Men's & Women's - three participants (2 male/1 female)

ACADEMICS

ASC DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-ATHLETES

ETBU led the ASC with five Distinguished Scholar-Athlete Award Winners for their sports. This is the most in one year that ETBU has produced and now has been award 29 Distinguished Scholar-Athlete Awards the past 10 years. In the past three years, ETBU has led the ASC with the most student-athletes winning the award. Along with the DSA awards, ETBU had over 200 student-athletes named to the ASC All-Academic team with baseball leading the way producing 40+ players with a 3.0 GPA or higher.

AWARD WINNERS

MEN'S GOLF: Kip Childress
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD: Brandon Powell (repeat winner)
WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD: Graycee Mosley
SOFTBALL: Ashley Croft
BASEBALL: Jake Miller

ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS

ETBU had two College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-Americans this year in softball players Ashley Croft and Mary Frances Ellis. They both were voted onto the CSC Academic All-American Third Team.

MARY FRANCES ELLIS

ASHLEY CROFT

CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT SELECTIONS

Men’s Soccer

Matthew Dieb
Joseph Flores
Garrett Garvin
Bruno Palmieri

Women’s Soccer

Addison Funk
Olivia Gallegos
Brianna Mickshaw
Kayla Nichols
Amy Pineda
Sarah Ramos

Football

Erick “EJ” Burgess
Alek Child

Volleyball

Lillie Hill
Alexis Mack
Hannah Perry
Avery Reid

Men’s Basketball

Ryan Elzy
Jayden Williams

Women’s Basketball

Kaia Williams
Mollie Dittmar
Brooke Webster
Chloe Rogers

Softball

Ashley Croft
Allison Damiani
Corley Carpenter
Mary Frances Ellis
Hannah Kelley

Baseball

Nicolas Chavez
Jase Jones
Jake Miller
Cole Godkin
Jagger Neely

Men’s Track and Field

Donyvan Givens
Rangel Miller
Landry Pedroza
Brandon Powell

Women’s Track and Field

Nakayla Holloway

NATIONAL TEAM ACADEMIC AWARDS

Six programs earned academic team awards for their team grade point average. In select sports, teams also had individuals selected to the national all-academic team.

ITA: Women's Tennis (8 straight years) | ITA Scholar-Athletes - Jayde Childress, Isabelle Duarte, Keelie Stamson, Shyan Darr, Maryam Sharafeldin, Bailey Smith

ITA: Men's Tennis (first time under Drew Lambert) | ITA Scholar-Athletes - Slade Austin, Randal Lemmon, Bruno Brocanelli, Jake Gibson, Max Karseno, Drew Van Wyk

NFCA: Softball (7 straight years) | NFCA Scholar-Athletes - Braelyn Buchanan, Corley Carpenter, Ashley Croft, Allison Damiani, Kendall Droesch, Mary Frances Ellis, Sydney Green, Hannah Kelley, Emma Overla, Toni Tamborello, and Elizabeth Watkins

AVCA: Volleyball (4 straight years)

AVCA: Beach Volleyball (first year)

ABCA: Baseball (8 straight years)

ALL-AMERICANS

ETBU had another strong year producing All-Americans in four sports - football, volleyball, baseball, and softball.

Football: Jordan Estes (D3football.com 3rd Team, AFCA 2nd Team)
Volleyball: Graycee Mosley (AVCA Honorable Mention)
Softball: Tristen Maddox (NFCA 1st Team/Gold Glove Winner), Courtney White (NFCA 1st Team), Ashley Croft (NFCA 3rd Team)
Baseball: Ben Lea (ABCA 1st Team, D3baseball.com 1st Team), Sayers Collins (ABCA 1st Team, D3baseball.com 2nd Team)