UC Santa Barbara Athletics Announces 2025 Golden Eagle Award Winners

5/13/2025 8:56:00 PM

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The UC Santa Barbara Athletics Department held its annual Golden Eagle Scholar Athlete Awards Dinner on Tuesday, honoring the academic achievements of 20 outstanding Gaucho student-athletes.

The Golden Eagle Award honors the student-athlete from each program with the highest cumulative grade point average (3.20 minimum) and who consistently exhibits citizenship and integrity. All honorees are at least sophomores academically at UC Santa Barbara.

The annual event is made possible by the generous support of longtime civic leaders and Gaucho donors Peter and Gerd Jordano (Pacific Beverage). View the complete list of winners below. This year's Golden Eagle Ring winners, the student-athletes with the highest GPAs in the entire department — one male and one female — have their names in bold.

Sport	Student-Athlete	Major
Baseball	Frank Camarillo	Sociology
Men's Basketball	Elia Bongiorno	Psychological and Brain Sciences
Women's Basketball	Cayla Williams	Statistics and Data Sciences
Men's Cross Country	Zachary Parker	Psychological and Brain Sciences
Women's Cross Country	Maya Lacamp	French
Men's Golf	Jay Martinez	Economics
Women's Indoor Track & Field	Sophia Pardo	Psychology and Brain Sciences
Men's Soccer	Kaden Standish	Economics
Women's Soccer	Sofie Rodriguez	Biological Sciences
Softball	Ainsley Waddell	Physics
Men's Swimming	Connor Martilla	Statistics and Data Science
Women's Swimming	Kristin Bartlett	Molecular and Cellular Biology
Men's Tennis	Gianluca Brunkow	Sociology
Women's Tennis	Katarina Vayser	Financial Math and Statistics
Men's Track & Field	Elan Goetz	Biology
Women's Track & Field	Aoife Hernon	Sociology
Men's Volleyball	Ben Pearson	Applied Mathematics
Women's Volleyball	Angie Dentoni	Communication
Men's Water Polo	Sam McKenzie	Economics
Women's Water Polo	Ava Donleavy	Philosophy

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