Male athletes
Hansel Atencia (basketball) - The 5-foot-10 Bucaramanga, Colombia native served as the Mustangs’ point guard, ranking second on the team in scoring with 15.5 points per game, first on the team in assists with 4.3 per game and third on the team in steals with 1.2 per game. Playing in 30 games, Atencia scored a season-high 35 points against Vanguard University. Atencia walked away as an NAIA Division 1 honorable mention All-American.
Samuel Eisenhuth (golf) - Leading the men’s golf team to the NAIA Association of Independent Institutions Championship to a sixth-place finish, Eisenhuth
tied for ninth with a total score of 224 (75,72,77).
Lawrence Russell (bas
ketball) - Russell was a dominant force on both sides of the ball, leading the Mustangs in scoring with 16.7 points per game. He was third on the team in rebounding, pulling down 6.8 rebounds per game and first in steals with 64 on the year. Having his best games against Menlo College, Russell had a season-high in points (35) and rebounds (18). Russell was rewarded for his hard work throughout the season by being named as a NAIA Division 1 first-team All American.
Aaron Shackelford
(baseball) - Being named to the 2018 Baseball AllGSAC Team, Shackelford
finished the season with a batting average of .303 and a slugging percentage of .584 while hitting 11 home runs on 54 total hits on the year. Shackelford led the Mustangs with 44 RBIs on the year.
Preston White (base
ball) - Getting the job done from the mound and at the plate, White was a dominant batter for the Mustangs leading the team in batting average with .326 on 62 hits, adding 25 RBIs. The righthanded pitcher finished the year going 4-8 with a 3.45 ERA in 26 appearances. In 44.1 innings of work, White allowed 17 earned runs, striking out 40 in the process. Rounding out the year, the San Francisco Giants selected White in the 24th round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft.