College Sports
Three Wildcats Earn Academic All-District Honors from CSC
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State women’s golfers Alenka Navarro and Noa van Beek along with men’s golfer Kobe Valociek have been named 2024-25 Academic All-District honorees, College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced Tuesday. Navarro, an athletic training and rehab sciences major, earned a 3.525 GPA. van Beek, who is a marketing major, produced a 3.778 […]
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State women’s golfers Alenka Navarro and Noa van Beek along with men’s golfer Kobe Valociek have been named 2024-25 Academic All-District honorees, College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced Tuesday.
Navarro, an athletic training and rehab sciences major, earned a 3.525 GPA. van Beek, who is a marketing major, produced a 3.778 GPA. Valociek, who transferred in from Virginia Tech for the 2024-25 season, put together a perfect 4.0 GPA while working on his certificate in Data Analytics.
A sophomore this past season, Navarro competed in 12 events, putting together a 73.58 scoring average to rank sixth in program history as she earned one top-five finish and six top-20 showings. Her best finish of the year was a tie for third place at the season-opening Powercat Invitational, while her lowest 54-hole score was even-par 216 at both the Ron Moore Intercollegiate and NCAA Lexington Regional. A product of Mexico City, Navarro capped her sophomore campaign by tying for 14th place in the NCAA Championship.
A native of Oene, Netherlands, van Beek was a member of the scoring lineup for all 13 events, producing a 74.29 scoring average in addition to a top-10 and three top-20 finishes. Her best finish of the season was a tie for seventh place at the MountainView Collegiate after recording a 54-hole score of 3-over par 219.
Valociek made an impact on the Wildcats during his lone season in Manhattan as he ranked second on the team with a 72.32 scoring average while producing one top-five, four top-10 and sixth top-20 finishes in addition to leading the team in percentage of rounds counted toward the team score (90.32). His best finish of the season was a tie for fourth place at The Prestige following his best 54-hole score of the season at 7-under par 206, which included a career-low tying round of 66.
To be included on the CSC Academic All-District teams, an undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale, while graduate student-athletes must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA as both an undergraduate and graduate student. On the course, golfers must be in the lineup for 70% of an institution’s team scoring events or in the lineup at the conference championship tournament.
Navarro, an athletic training and rehab sciences major, earned a 3.525 GPA. van Beek, who is a marketing major, produced a 3.778 GPA. Valociek, who transferred in from Virginia Tech for the 2024-25 season, put together a perfect 4.0 GPA while working on his certificate in Data Analytics.
A sophomore this past season, Navarro competed in 12 events, putting together a 73.58 scoring average to rank sixth in program history as she earned one top-five finish and six top-20 showings. Her best finish of the year was a tie for third place at the season-opening Powercat Invitational, while her lowest 54-hole score was even-par 216 at both the Ron Moore Intercollegiate and NCAA Lexington Regional. A product of Mexico City, Navarro capped her sophomore campaign by tying for 14th place in the NCAA Championship.
A native of Oene, Netherlands, van Beek was a member of the scoring lineup for all 13 events, producing a 74.29 scoring average in addition to a top-10 and three top-20 finishes. Her best finish of the season was a tie for seventh place at the MountainView Collegiate after recording a 54-hole score of 3-over par 219.
Valociek made an impact on the Wildcats during his lone season in Manhattan as he ranked second on the team with a 72.32 scoring average while producing one top-five, four top-10 and sixth top-20 finishes in addition to leading the team in percentage of rounds counted toward the team score (90.32). His best finish of the season was a tie for fourth place at The Prestige following his best 54-hole score of the season at 7-under par 206, which included a career-low tying round of 66.
To be included on the CSC Academic All-District teams, an undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale, while graduate student-athletes must have at least a 3.50 cumulative GPA as both an undergraduate and graduate student. On the course, golfers must be in the lineup for 70% of an institution’s team scoring events or in the lineup at the conference championship tournament.