The FMCC student-athletes and coaches gathered at HFM Boces Wednesday evening to celebrate another successful academic and athletic year. Each coach had the opportunity to acknowledge the Raiders for their many accomplishments on the playing field and in the classroom.
The academic athletes of the year were honored. The female and male Academic Athletes of the year were volleyball's Michelle Ferraino and baseball's Noah Wygel. Twenty-seven student-athletes were recognized for their grade point average being a 3.0 or better.
The co-female Athlete of the Year award went to bowling's Makayla Williams and Women's Basketball Niaimani Marshall. The male athlete of the year was presented to men's basketball Amadou Diakite.
Basketball Coach Ed Collar was honored for being named Conference and Region Coach of the Year. Bowling Coach Tom Rathbun was also recognized for being named Conference Bowling Coach of the Year.
Each year through the College Foundation the Kevin Chrisman Memorial Scholarship Fund awards graduating baseball players based on their performance academically and athletically. The scholarship is in honor of former FMCC Raider Baseball player Kevin Chrisman who was a two year catcher with the Raiders. The recipients of this years' award were Noah Wygel, Josh McCaffrey and Dan Parslow.
Individual Player Awards:
Men's Soccer
MVP: Evan Luck
MVP: Mike Friguletto
Coach's Award: Jefferson Jurado
Volleyball
MVP: Tesa Brody
Coach's Award: Abigail Pritchard and Destiny Prather
Cross Country
Coach's Award: Travis Geniti, Clane Newcomer and Nick Ferrera
Women's Basketball
MVP: Niaimani Marshall
Coach's Award: Shelby Dopp and Barbara-Inez McKinney
Men's Basketball
MVP: Amadou Diakite
Coach's Award: Austin Jones and Juwan Malone
Men's Bowling:
MVP: Bryan Green
Most Improved: Brandon Little
Coach's Award: Richard Taylor
Women's Bowling:
MVP: Makayla Williams
Most Improved: Shayla Staves
Coach's Award: Rebecca Van Deusen
Softball:
MVP: Mallory Baldwin
Defensive: Marque Pacillo-Herr
Coach's Awards: Juliana Buyce
Baseball:
MVP's: Josh McCaffrey and Dan Parslow
Coach's Award: Blake Carey
Conference and Regional Awards
Men's Soccer
Ahmed Mourad-All Conference
Volleyball
Brianna Port-Mountain Valley All-Conference
Tesa Brody- Mountain Valley All-Conference
Men's Basketball
Amadou Diakite-1st Team All-Region and All-Conference
Jaleel Jean Jacques-3rd Team All-Region and All-Conference
Juwan Malone-2nd Team All -Conference
Women's Basketball
Niaimani Marshall-1st Team All-Region and All-Conference
DiAsia DeBoue-3rd Team All-Region and All-Conference
McKiea Weekes-3rd Team All-Region and All-Conference
Men's Bowling
Bryan Green-Conference Bowler of the Year
Ethan Hadcock-1st Team All-Conference
Richard Taylor-2nd Team All-Conference
Hunter Meher-2nd Team All-Conference
Women's Bowling
Makayla Williams-1st Team All-Conference and All-Region
Shayla Staves-2nd Team All Conference
Allie Borst-2nd Team All Conference
Rebecca Van Deusen-2nd Team All Conference
Raiders 3.0 Club
Soccer-Mike Friguletto, Jefferson Jurado, Cameron Biche
Volleyball-Michelle Ferraino, Raina Danylak, Tesa Brody and Briana Dean
Bowling-Allie Borst, Angelique LaFreniere, Makayla Williams and Andrew Sitterly
Women's Basketball-Camryn Meca, Shelby Dopp, Niaimani Marshall
Men's Basketball- Amadou Diakite
Baseball-Dan Parslow, Noah Wygel, Blake Carey, Alex VanDeusen, William Newcomb, Josh McCaffrey and Derek Lee
Softball-Juliana Buyce, Alex Benfatti and Lyndsay Siudy