Three Titan Gymnasts on Big West Academic Team

The Cal State Fullerton gymnastics program placed three athletes on the Big West Conference’s All-Academic team, which was released Tuesday.

Christi Clifford, Kristi Mardyn and Karena Mills made the team. Mardyn, a sophomore biology major from Coquitlam, Canada, had the highest grade-point average of any team member (3.91) and the sixth-highest among all conference athletes.

Clifford, a sophomore kinesiology/health promotion major, had a GPA of 3.53; Mills, a senior majoring in biology, had a GPA of 3.53.

There were 77 conference athletes who maintained at least a 3.2 grade-point average, competed in at least 50% of their program’s competition and were sophomores or higher. This is the first time the Big West Conference has named an all-academic team.

Other local athletes honored:

Women’s basketball--Fullerton’s Shayla Bradshaw, sophomore, undeclared major, 3.37; UC Irvine’s Michelle Kahler, junior, social sciences/economics, 3.45.

Men’s swimming and diving--UCI’s Elijah Fan, sophomore, undeclared, 3.27; Pat McDonough, junior, social sciences, 3.79.

Women’s swimming and diving--UCI’s Dena Amr, junior, biological sciences, 3.53; April Gibbs, junior, biological services, 3.78.