Four Silverswords Earn CSC Academic All-District Honors

Four Chaminade University student-athletes on Tuesday were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic At-Large Team.
 
Anna Stucchi (Roncello, Italy/Santa Clara University/I.I.S. Ezio Vanoni HS) and Grace Talpash (Temecula, Calif./University of Oklahoma/Great Oak HS) earned honors for beach volleyball while Blake Buonopane (Rowley, Mass./St. John's Prep) and Jack Yeager (San Clemente, Calif./JSerra Catholic) were recognized from men's golf.
 
Stucchi co-led the second-year beach volleyball Silverswords with six wins. She went 2-0 in the top flight and posted three more in Flight 3. Talpash had five victories on the season, getting two victories in Flight 1 and three more in the second pairing. Both student-athletes carry 4.00 grade-point averages in Master's of Business Administration (MBA).
 
Stucchi and Talpash were also CSC Academic All-District honorees for women's volleyball last fall.
 
Buonopane was named to the men's golf CSC Academic All-District for the second time with an undergraduate GPA of 3.92 in Business Administration. This past season, the senior posted a career-low 9.05 versus-par score with 14 scores counting towards the Silverswords' 22 rounds in 2024-25.
 
Yeager was Chaminade's second-lowest scorer this season with a 75.80 adjusted per-round score, the second lowest in program history, and a Clippd ranking of 12.8. The sophomore carries a 3.57 GPA in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
 
The CSC At-Large program consists of sports that are considered primarily of 'small rosters' or sports that hold single national championships across all NCAA divisions.
 
To be recognized on the Academic All-District team, candidates must be a sophomore both academically and athletically and have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.50. Candidates in beach volleyball must be in the lineup for 70 percent of an institution's team scoring events. Golf candidates must play in 70 percent of an institution's team's scores or participated in the conference championship tournament.
 
Institutions can nominate up to six men's and six women's candidates for Academic All-District honors.
 
The Division II CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II Academic All-America® programs.