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Moraine Valley student-athletes named to the Skyway Conference All-Academic Team
More than 30 Moraine Valley student-athletes were named to the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference All-Academic Team for the 2007-08 school year.

Students were selected for earning a 3.0 or higher G.P.A. after completing at least 48 course credit hours while participating in one of the college’s 12 sports. Within the eight colleges in the conference, 126 student-athletes were honored.

The 33 Moraine Valley athletes selected were soccer players Amy Johnson, Ursula Radwanski, Orlando Esparza, TJ Evans, Dong Ha Lee, Mohamed Metwally, Matthew Michaels, Julio Pinedo, Matt Van Meter, James Voutiritsas, and Jonathan Zaragoza; cross country runners Janet Arreola, Sandra Hubbard, Sharon Hubbard, and Maggie Smorczewska; softball players Christina Atton, Megan Ryan, and Megan Stroh; basketball players Shana Creighton, Laura Metzger, Larrell Gary, and Donny Malic; baseball players Mike Feddersen, Zeferino Guerrero, Jimmy Janchenko, Joe Plocharczyk, and Bill Smith; tennis players Christina Madrigal and Christina Ocampo; and volleyball players Meghan Ardolino, Bianca Couto, Kaitlin Fischer, and Meghan Hughes.

“We have such a high proportion of athletes with more than a 3.0 G.P.A. and overall in the Skyway Conference we have 25 percent of the award winners. That is attributable to our academic advising, teachers and coaches who motivate the students for success,” said Bill Finn, athletic director. “I’m very proud. It shows our retention rate — we keep many freshmen — and they’ve done great work in the classroom.”

Four Moraine Valley athletes are NJCAA Academic All-Americans
Four Moraine Valley student-athletes were named National Junior College Athletic Association 2008 Academic All-Americans.

Baseball players James Janchenko and Joseph Plocharczyk, tennis player Michael Wojnarowski, and soccer player Ursula Radwanski earned the distinction by maintaining a G.P.A. above 3.6 on a 4.0 scale after completing 45 credit hours. Athletes must have participated in a sport for at least one season to qualify for the honor.

“This honor is harder to achieve because you need a higher G.P.A., but this demonstrates that Moraine Valley isn’t all about athletics,” said athletic director Bill Finn. “These are the best and brightest. By virtue of this award it shows an excellent balance between academia and athletics.”