Vaquero Achievements, All-WSC and All-State players
-- The SBCC Vaqueros won six Western State Conference titles in 2017-18 (Women's Soccer, Men's Soccer, Women's Volleyball, Women's Water Polo, Women's Golf, Women's Swimming & Diving) and finished 1st (W-Water Polo), 2nd (W-Soccer) and 3rd in the state (W-Golf).
-- Three fall sports reached the State Final Four:
W-Water Polo went 31-3 and won the State title, beating Sierra 8-6
W-Soccer went 21-1-1 and reached State Final Four for second straight year, falling to Fresno 2-1 in state title game. 2nd in the state.
W-Golf went 90-3 and finished 3rd in the state
M-Soccer was 17-1-4 and finished 5th in state, suffering its only loss (1-0) to Mt. SAC in So Cal Regional final
W-Swim & Dive went 37-2 and won 4th straight WSC title (25-0). They finished 7th in the state.
-- The combined record of the 5 teams that placed in Top 7 in state: 196-10-5 (.941 win %)
-- Football went 4-6 and nine players made the All-American Pacific League team. RB Manny Nwosu, DB Russell Enholm and DE Chayvis Curry were All-State.
-- We had 87 student-athletes named to All-WSC teams. 10 were named All-State and 10 more made All-American.
-- We had 5 WSC Players of the Year – Victor Chavez (Men's Soccer), Katherine Sheehy (Women's Soccer), Emma Fraser (Women's Water Polo), Kaylene Ureno (Women's VB), Kelee Shimizu (Women's Swim & Dive). Fraser was also the MVP of the State Tournament.
-- We had 3 WSC Coaches of the Year – John Sisterson (Men's and Women's Soccer), Chuck Melendez (Women's Golf).
-- 2 teams from 2017-18 school year were named CCCAA Academic All-State:
Women's Golf (3.42 GPA)
Men's Cross Country (3.33 GPA)
-- 5 Vaqueros were selected as College Players of the Year in their sport for the Santa Barbara area by the SB Athletic Round Table: Emma Fraser (W-Water Polo), Manny Nwosu (Football), Katherine Sheehy (W-Soccer), Victor Chavez (M-Soccer), Vanessa Watkins (W-Golf).
-- John Sisterson won the College Coach of the Year award from the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table for all local colleges and all sports.
-- SBCC School Honors
Male Athlete of the Year – Kyle Skinner (Men's VB, going to Ohio State)
Female Athlete of the Year – Kat Sheehy (Women's Soccer, going to UCSB)
Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Alyssa Russell-Sadoff (W-Water Polo, W-Swim & Dive)
Louis Lowry Davis Inspirational Leadership Award (presented by SB Athletic Round Table) – Hannah Rogers (Women's Basketball)
2017-18 was quite a year for SBCC Athletics
Posted: May 15, 2018