Dos Pueblos Celebrates 14 Pupil Athletes Transferring On to the Subsequent Stage | Sports activities
Dos Pueblos celebrated Wednesday during a signing ceremony at Sovine Gym that its senior squad of student athletes advanced to the next level in 2023.
Fourteen Chargers were introduced and praised by their trainers during the luncheon ceremony.
The student-athletes signing college bids are: Makeila Cervantes (Pomona Pitzer for indoor volleyball), Avery Ball (Messiah College for lacrosse), Emma Gilbert (Harvard for water polo), Ava Bennett (Pomona Pitzer for water polo), Ryan Speshyock ( Stanford for baseball), Chloe Hoffman (Stanford for beach volleyball), Lucy Speier (University of San Francisco for beach volleyball), Maddie Nees (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical for lacrosse), Tyler Jamieson (University of Colorado-Colorado Springs for cross country/track). ), Luci Koroshec (Westmont College for Cross Country/Track), Phoebe Wolfe Lyons (Claremont-McKenna for Cross Country/Track), Brynn Graham (UC Davis for Swimming), Cooper Costello (University of Chicago for Swimming), Nikko Carrillo ( Wagner University of Swimming).
This was the 16th year that Dos Pueblos recognized all of its graduate student-athletes who signed college offers.
“We had 4-5 students that we recognized in the first year,” Feldhaus recalls. “We started small and now we have arrived at this great event. It’s one of my favorite activities we do here.”
He said the ceremony was started to recognize the achievements of the student-athletes.
“Their dedication goes beyond the pool, the field and the court. These students also met their academic requirements to achieve this goal. They were successful in class and were able to balance their sport at a very high level.”
Graham is looking forward to swimming for coach Matt Macedo at UC Davis. He formerly coached at UCSB and was twice named Big West Coach of the Year.
She said the team environment under Macedo “is simply the best I’ve seen and that’s what really interested me about the whole program.
“I wanted to go to a Division 1 program and UC Davis felt really good in both science and swimming.”
Wolfe Lyons said Claremont McKenna was her choice from the start.
“I wanted a small liberal arts school and I knew I wanted to run (at the NCAA Division 3 level). I made an overnight visit there at the end of September. I was planning a trip back east as I was checking out some other places. But after the visit, to stay with the team, learn about the culture and take a class, I said I wanted to be here.”
She thanked her team at DP for helping make this signing day possible.
“Our team was the best. I wouldn’t be standing here today if my teammates weren’t the best people ever and just made me happy, made me run faster and made me a better person.”
Koroshec and Jamieson were part of DP boys’ cross-country teams that competed in back-to-back CIF state championships.
Jamieson said that “qualifying for the state two years in a row with this group of guys, Orlando Ye, Luci” was his highlights as a DP athlete. “The whole process with them and then the last two years has been really special.”
Koroshec said that the highlights of his high school career were making a standing in his junior year and then being the first DP team finisher at the championships last season.
As for running in college, “It’s super exciting, I’m over the moon,” he said. “I didn’t even think about going to Westmont until earlier this year. When I first started meeting Coach (Russ) Smelley and the team, I said, ‘Yes, this is the place for me to continue to grow as a student and as an athlete.’
“I’m super excited to have signed today.”
Jamieson said Colorado-Colorado Springs was the first school he considered as a place to continue his running career and education.
“They reached out to me throughout this process,” he said. “I paid a visit, spoke to the coach and everything was just great.”
