{"id":432151,"date":"2026-08-13T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432151\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:30:12","slug":"45-mountain-west-student-athletes-named-to-easton-nfca-scholar-all-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432151\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Mountain West Student-Athletes Named to Easton\/NFCA Scholar All-America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                LAS VEGAS \u2013\u00a0A total of 45 Mountain West student-athletes earned Easton\/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors from four MW institutions, including Nevada, New Mexico, San Jos\u00e9 State and UNLV, as announced Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, three Mountain West programs captured Team GPA honors as well, New Mexico (No. 7 &#8211; 3.777 GPA), Nevada (3.221 GPA) and UNLV (3.52 GPA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rankings and honors recognize the academic prowess of softball teams across the Association\u2019s membership categories. NCAA Division I led the way with 2,637 student-athletes earning a 3.5 grade-point average or higher for 2025-26. NCAA Division III followed with 2,491 and NCAA Division II with 1,869. Junior colleges and NAIA came in with 1,190 and 655 student-athletes respectively. Seven student-athletes from Bay Path University earned recognition in the Other Four-Year category.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTeam GPAs and scholar-athletes are submitted by member head coaches.\u00a0For more information, please see the NFCA article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nfca.org\/divnews\/general\/easton-team-gpa-all-america-scholar-athlete-college-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain West Easton\/NFCA Scholar-Athlete All-Americans\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ainsley Berlingeri, Nevada<br \/>\nAnna Braukus, Nevada<br \/>\nTess Bumiller, Nevada<br \/>\nHaylee Engelbrecht, Nevada<br \/>\nZaria Gee, Nevada<br \/>\nMaya Larsen, Nevada<br \/>\nMatlyn Leetch, Nevada<br \/>\nLexi O\u2019Gorman, Nevada<br \/>\nCaprice Barela, New Mexico\u00a0<br \/>\nCaitlin Benningfield, New Mexico<br \/>\nGabrielle Briones, New Mexico<br \/>\nArianna Capek, New Mexico<br \/>\nJessica DeLeon, New Mexico<br \/>\nGeorgia Heathcock, New Mexico<br \/>\nAlyssa Hensgen, New Mexico<br \/>\nMiaLani Ocampo, New Mexico<br \/>\nGrace Rana, New Mexico<br \/>\nMarina Tinari, New Mexico<br \/>\nAlexa Wilde, New Mexico<br \/>\nBriana Williams, New Mexico<br \/>\nSamantha Blachly, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nTaylor Chillingworth, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nAva Conti, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nCarly Cummings, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nJordyn Fray, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nKaylani Marie Lim, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nShaylen McDowell, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nGiselle Ortega, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nArden Walsh, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nReina Zermeno, San Jos\u00e9 State<br \/>\nCharelle Aki, UNLV<br \/>\nGwyn Burnett, UNLV<br \/>\nTaryn Caleron, UNLV<br \/>\nKeyannah Chavez, UNLV<br \/>\nRachel Cook, UNLV<br \/>\nRaegen Everett, UNLV<br \/>\nLauren Fettic, UNLV<br \/>\nHailey Gilbertson, UNLV<br \/>\nLyla Gonzalez, UNLV<br \/>\nMantha Hatzenbeller, UNLV<br \/>\nSophie Stockam, UNLV<br \/>\nNatalie Turner, UNLV<br \/>\nEmma Wardlaw, UNLV<br \/>\nAmelia Weber, UNLV<br \/>\nBri Williams, UNLV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; LAS VEGAS \u2013\u00a0A total of 45 Mountain West student-athletes earned Easton\/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-432151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}