IRVINE, Calif. – Chaminade University men's basketball wing
Tyler Cartaino on Wednesday was named the Pacific West Conference Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year as voted by the conference athletic directors.
The 6-foot-6 senior from Newbury Park, Calif. is the first student-athlete in PacWest history to win the conference's most prestigious individual award in consecutive years. He was selected over the other seven men's sports awardees for the honor and is one of the most highly decorated student-athletes in school history, earning at least a dozen athletic and academic awards to his credit.
In the classroom, Cartaino held a cumulative 3.795 grade-point average in Accounting. Along with his 2018-19 PacWest Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, he was also twice named a CoSIDA Academic All-America awardee including a first team selection earlier this year. He is also a two-time winner of the PacWest Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
On the court, Cartaino was the PacWest scoring champion at 20.8 points per game while shooting at a 55.2 percent clip which was tied for fourth in the conference. He guided the Silverswords to their fourth straight PacWest Tournament bid, earned his second straight All-PacWest First Team selection and was named All-West Region with the NABC and D2CCA. He finished his athletic career 14th in the program's all-time scoring list with 1,150 points.
Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year went to Azusa Pacific's Sara Wagenveld who excelled in both volleyball and track and field.
