MARSHALL, Texas – High academic standards continue to be shown in East Texas Baptist University athletics as they earned seven American Southwest Conference Distinguished Scholar-Athlete award winners. It is the sixth consecutive year that ETBU has posted the most ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete award winners. ETBU won the awards in baseball, men's and women's cross country, men's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and volleyball.
Receiving the awards are
Tyler Bogusz (baseball),
Noah Zarate (men's cross country),
Hannah Willis (women's cross country),
Max Karseno (men's tennis),
Joe Stroman (men's track & field),
Jordyn Ramirez (women's track & field), and
Graycee Mosley (volleyball). It is Mosley's third ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete award with one in track & field and two for volleyball. All the other recipients are first-time winners.
The award is voted on by the ASC Sports Information Directors and given to the top academic student-athlete for their sport. To be nominated, the student-athlete must be a member of the season's ASC Academic All-Conference team; carry a cumulative grade-point average of at least a 3.20; and participate in at least 50 percent of the team's season contests.
ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athletes of the Year Recipients
Baseball:
Tyler Bogusz
Men's Cross Country:
Noah Zarate
Women's Cross Country:
Hannah Willis
Men's Tennis:
Max Karseno
Men's Track & Field:
Joe Stroman
Women's Track & Field:
Jordyn Ramirez
Volleyball:
Graycee Mosley
ASC DSA Student-Athletes Nominated for ETBU
Men's Basketball: Michael Roberts
Women's Basketball: Hannah Ayala
Football: Mason Stancliff
Men's Golf: Coleman Bales
Women's Golf: Anastasia Stave
Men's Soccer: Lars Clark
Women's Soccer: Mallory Duncan
Softball: Avery Holland
Women's Tennis: Monique Ybarra
ASC DSA Award Winners by University
ETBU: 7
HSU: 7
UMHB: 5
HPU: 1
Below are the ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete award winners.
Baseball – Tyler Bogusz | 4.00 | Sr. | Finance/Accounting | Frisco, TX
Bogusz won the NCAA Elite Academic Award at the NCAA National Championship Tournament as the top student-athlete for his grade-point average. He has helped ETBU to two American Southwest Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championships, two NCAA Division III Regional Tournaments, one Regional Tournament and Super Regional Championship, and a berth into the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament where ETBU finished in the top four.
In the past two years, he has worked closely with several organizations on campus. As a member of the ETBU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), he has served as a team rep and treasurer and has led the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on campus. His kind heart has led him to help with the ETBU Baseball Kids Camp and to be part of the ETBU Presidential Intern Program Community Project, which partners with a local Elementary school on a project to help the Marshall area.
The 2026 ASC Medal of Honor recipient for ETBU, Bogusz, is also a two-time ASC All-Academic Team member, a College Sports Communicator Academic All-District member, and on the President's List for the past two years. He is a member of the Sigma Beta Delta & Alpha Chi, and Chi Alpha Sigma National Honor Societies, as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He made the ETBU All-Academic Team for the highest grade point average on the baseball team over the past two years, is the ETBU Fred Hale School of Business Outstanding Scholar, and received the Hale School of Business Academic Excellence Award. At the ETBU End of the Year awards, he was awarded the Hogue Presidential Servant Leadership Award.
His two-year pitching career for ETBU brought him ASC awards, being named to the All-ASC Second Team last year, and a member of the 2026 ASC All-Tournament team. He has gone 10-3 over the past two years as a starting pitcher, with 72 strikeouts in 115.1 innings pitched and a 4.06 ERA, as ETBU has won two ASC Tournament and Regular Season Championships while hosting two NCAA Division III Regional Tournaments, winning one along with a Super Regional ETBU has won 71 games in two seasons and been ranked as high as No. 10 in the nation.
Baseball Winners
2026:
Tyler Bogusz
2024:
Jagger Neely
2023:
Jake Miller
2019:
Casey Combs
2017: Conner Combs
2016: Conner Combs
2011: Ryan Yezak
2010: Kyle Pope
Men's Track & Field - Joe Stroman | 3.61 | Fr. | Criminal Justice | Atlanta, TX
As a freshman,
Joe Stroman has made an impact on the ETBU track and field team. In his first year, he qualified for the NCAA Division III National Track and Field Championship Meet where he was named a USTFCCCA All-American Second Team. ETBU finished 12
th in the 4x100 meter relay with a time of 40.99. Their time earlier in the spring was ranked as high as third in the nation.
He will be an ASC All-Academic Team member and in his first year on campus has served the Marshall Community with the Night to Shine, Operation Christmas Child, and helping the MISD with Morning High 5s.
Men's Track and Field Winners
2026:
Joe Stroman
2025: Landon Morris
2024:
Brandon Powell
2023:
Brandon Powell
2022:
Brandon Powell
2021:
Mack Broussard
2019:
Mack Broussard
2015: Landon Price
Women's Track & Field –Jordyn Ramirez | 3.65 | Fr. | Education | La Porte, TX
Ramirez had a strong freshman year as a two-time ASC Athlete of the Week. She earned the award on March 24 for finishing fifth in the 400 meter dash at Rhodes College (59.10) and April 13 at the Warhawk Invite where she was fifth in the 100 meter dash then was sixth in the high jump.
She will be an ASC All-Academic Team member and in her first year on campus has served the Marshall Community with the Night to Shine, Operation Christmas Child, and helping the MISD with Morning High 5s.
Women's Track and Field Winners
2026:
Jordyn Ramirez
2024:
Neelie Schiel
2023:
Graycee Mosley
2022: Chisom Bright-Osigwe
Men's Tennis – Max Karseno | 3.98 | Sr. | Sports Management | Carrollton, TX
Karseno is a five-time All-ASC selection (1st/2nd team), two-time ASC All-Tournament selection, 2025 ASC Tournament MVP, and helped ETBU to two consecutive ASC Tournament Championships and NCAA Tournaments as a team captain. This year, he was All-ASC First Team singles at Flight 6 and Second Team doubles at Flight 1 with
Sam Black. He went 3-0 in the ASC and was 9-7 on the year combined at Flights 4 through 6. In doubles, they were 14-4 with a 2-1 ASC record. He is a three-time ITA Scholar-Athlete team member as ETBU has earned three ITA All-Academic Team awards, four-time ASC All-Academic Team member, and CSC Academic All-District. At the May ETBU graduation, he was awarded the prestigious President's Award which is given to someone who exemplifies a Christian lead, scholar, and servant on campus and in the local community as he was Summa Cum Laude graduate. He has volunteered with FCA, ETBU SAAC, and helped launch the student section on gamedays called the Marsh Pit. He has served as a Tiger Camp Counselor, been on the intramural staff and a Thrive Peer Mentor and helped at both Mobberly Marshall Baptist Church and Bent Tree Bible Fellowship in Dallas. In Marshall, he has helped with the Marshall ISD High Fives program in the mornings at the Elementary Schools, Operation Christmas Child, and helped pick up trash in Marshall.
Men's Tennis Winners
2026:
Max Karseno
2025:
Slade Austin
Men's Cross Country – Noah Zarate | 3.81 | Fr. | Nursing | Canton, TX
Zarate earned the ASC Individual Championship as a freshman, was All-ASC First Team, three-time ASC Runner of the Week, and was the ASC Freshman of the Year. He ran a 26:31.47 in the 8K and was 8 seconds faster than the second place finisher. He then competed at the NCAA Division III West Regionals coming in 99
th place out of almost 200 runners. He will be ASC All-Academic and make the Dean's List. He has helped with Operation Christmas Child, Marshall's Night to Shine and MISD's High 5's morning program, and went on a team mission trip to Belize.
Men's Cross Country Winners
2026:
Noah Zarate
2021:
Mack Broussard
2014: Landon Price
Women's Cross Country – Hannah Willis | 3.97 | So. | Elementary Education | Whitehouse, TX
Willis is an All-ASC First Team selection coming in fourth place helping ETBU to the program's first-ever ASC Championship. She ran a 24:39.72 at the championship and qualified for the NCAA Division III West Regional Meet. She has helped with Operation Christmas Child, Marshall's Night to Shine and MISD's High 5's morning program, and went on a team mission trip to Belize. The three-time ASC All-Academic Team member will also be on the CSC Academic All-District team.
Women's Cross Country Winners
2026:
Hannah Willis
2022:
Rachel Morrison
2016: Shelby Taylor-Spencer
Volleyball – Graycee Mosley | 4.00 | Sr. | Biology | Troy, TX
Mosley won the NCAA Elite Academic Award as top student-athlete at the 2026 NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament and is the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for 2025 as the top academic volleyball student-athlete in NCAA Division III. She becomes the first American Southwest Conference volleyball student-athlete to win this award. A biochemistry major who graduated from ETBU in December 2025, she was also named to the CSC Academic All-American First Team and Academic All-District Team and is the 2025-26 ASC Female Athlete of the Year. She finished with a 4.0 GPA, helping ETBU reach its first-ever NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament as the No. 1 seed and advanced to the Elite 8.
She made the President's List all four years, was in the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society, graduated Summa Cum Laude, and was the Outstanding Graduating Senior for the ETBU Chemistry Department. She has volunteered locally at several organizations. For Marshall ISD, she has helped with the Fall Festival and Morning High 5's, served as a volunteer PE teacher, and read at the Elementary schools. At Longview's New Beginnings Church, she volunteered at the Back to School Bash and the For the City Project. Her time in Marshall has also been spent at Mission Marshall, Tim Tebow's Night to Shine, a Mission Trip to Chile, ETBU Serve Day, several Special Needs Nights for volleyball, volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club, and serving as a Pen Pal for Compassion International. This year, she became ETBU's all-time career kill leader with 2,032 kills, was named an AVCA First Team All-American, the NCAA Medford Regional Tournament Most Outstanding Player, the ASC Tournament MVP, and the ASC Player of the Year. She finished fourth in the NCAA in total kills (532), 10th in kills per set (4.59), and 16th in total attacks (1,236). Earning eight ASC Player of the Week Awards, she was on the AVCA All-Region First Team and was the AVCA National Player of the Week while being named to the All-ASC First Team.
ETBU went 34-1, winning its third-straight American Southwest Conference Tournament Championship and reaching the No. 1 national ranking. They broke several program records, including the longest win streak at 34 matches, and won the program's and ASC's first-ever NCAA Division III Regional Tournament.
She leaves ETBU as a four-time AVCA All-American and an All-Region First Team selection, earning First Team All-American honors in 2024 and 2025. She is a three-time CSC Academic All-American, being named to the First Team the past two years. The only four-time ASC Player of the Year, she won two ASC Tournament MVPs and holds the record for most career Player of the Week awards for any ASC sport at 20. She is the ASC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete winner for both volleyball and track and field and will be a four-time ASC All-Academic team member. The four-year starter led ETBU to three American Southwest Tournament Championships, three NCAA Tournament appearances, and one NCAA Regional Championship.
Volleyball Winners
2026:
Graycee Mosley
2025:
Graycee Mosley
2008: Brooke McGehee
