OFFICIAL CCAA RELEASE

CALIFORNIA -- A league-best eight Cal Poly Pomona men's track and field student-athletes were named to the 2020 California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) Men's Track & Field All-Star Team, it was announced by the conference office Tuesday.

With the global COVID-19 pandemic suspending and subsequently ending the 2019-20 college athletics season in mid-March, it became an impossibility to properly bestow all-conference honors for spring sports. As a result, the CCAA is pleased to announce the first, and hopefully last, CCAA Men's Track & Field All-Star Team, in a fun effort to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments across the league during the abbreviated 2020 campaign.

The list of 32 student-athletes mirrors the championship roster size for CCAA track & field, and is not bound by specific events. All nine men's track & field programs were guaranteed one representative to showcase talent across the league. These standout performers were submitted for consideration by the league's men's track & field sports information contacts, with additional nominees listed, by school, at the bottom.

The Broncos had the most student-athletes recognized on the CCAA All-Star Team ahead of UC San Diego (six selections), Cal State LA (five selections) and Chico State (four selections).

Ryan Fields (52.82 sec) and Kaelin Moore (53.01 sec) sit first and second in all of Division II, respectively, in the 400 Meter Hurdles, with Moore opening 2020 as the defending CCAA champion in the event. Both earned provisional marks in the Hurdles.

Competing in the 100, 200 and both 4x100 and 4x400 Relays in the early-goings of the season was sprinter Kyle Johnston. Third in the CCAA at the 200 meter distance with a personal-record time of 21.78 at the Beach Opener on Mar. 7, Johnson, along with fellow CPP All-Stars Fields and Moore, raced to a Division II-best time in the 4x400 meter relay (3:14.56).

Alejandro Ambrosio led the way in the 1,500 meters with a mark of 3:55.44 to top the conference and national performance lists.

Kyle Lawson, an All-American in the Decathlon a season ago, had his sights set on a second-straight All-America performance at Nationals this season, garnering a NCAA Division II-best 6,833 points in the Decathlon at the Chico State Multis, which was a provisional-qualifier.  Lawson also led the conference -- and ranked seventh nationally -- in the javelin with a mark of 54.62 meters, also set at the Chico Multis on Feb. 27.  The senior was also sixth in the nation in the Pole Vault following his overall Decathlon effort in Chico.

Newcomer Matteo Madrassi earned a spot on the All-Star Team after setting a provisional-qualifying mark in the Pole Vault, a mark of 5.05 meters, which is good for No. 2 in the nation.

Aaron Guerra-Garcia set a provisional-qualifier in the Hammer with the fourth-best throw in the nation (55.90m).

Rounding out the All-Stars from Cal Poly Pomona was Anthony Victa, setting a NCAA provisional-qualfying mark in the triple jump, marking a 14.69m leap, the second-best in the nation.

The All-Stars are selected based solely on performances and marks achieved during the shortened spring season, therefore some big names in the sport are absent based on the limited number of competition dates. Each individual picked has a worthy standard set during the 2020 outdoor season to earn their All-Star selection.

Impressively, of the 28 NCAA Division II men's track & field automatic and provisional qualifying marks, 18 belong to CCAA student-athletes.

 

2020 CCAA Men's Track & Field All-Star Team
Championship Scholar:	Hakim Tokhi, Chico State
Name	Yr.	Event	School	Hometown
Alejandro Ambrosio	Sr.	Distance	Cal Poly Pomona	North Hollywood
Derrick Atkins	Jr.	Jumps	Cal State LA	San Diego
Eric Bejaran *	Sr.	Throws	Stanislaus State	Turlock
Jonathan Burton *	Jr.	Hurdles/Sprints	Cal State San Marcos	Moreno Valley
Justice Chima	So.	Jumps	Cal State San Marcos	San Marcos
Alex Davila *	Sr.	Multis	Chico State	Corning
Jack Emanuel	So.	Distance	Chico State	Chico
Ryan Fields *	So.	Hurdles	Cal Poly Pomona	Los Angeles
Matthew Gallego	Sr.	Throws	Stanislaus State	Escalon
Terrence Gladney	Jr.	Sprints	Stanislaus State	Sacramento
Aaron Guerra-Garcia *	Sr.	Throws	Cal Poly Pomona	Hacienda Heights
Carlos Gonzalez	Jr.	Distance	San Francisco State	Pittsburg
Max Halvax	So.	Sprints	UC San Diego	Dana Point
Nicholas Harper *	Jr.	Sprints	Cal State LA	San Bernardino
Shingirai Hlanguyo *	Jr.	Sprints	Cal State LA	Nyazura, Zimbabwe
Kyle Johnston	So.	Sprints	Cal Poly Pomona	Antioch
Kyle Lawson *	Sr.	Multis	Cal Poly Pomona	Clovis
Randall LeBlanc	Sr.	Multis	Chico State	Castro Valley
Devin Lecakes-Jones *	Sr.	Throws	UC San Diego	San Diego
Bryan Llopis	So.	Distance	Cal State East Bay	Foothill Ranch
Matteo Madrassi *	So.	Pole Vault	Cal Poly Pomona	Udine, Italy
Kaelin Moore *	Jr.	Hurdles	Cal Poly Pomona	Orange
Antonio Riggins	Sr.	Jumps	Cal State San Marcos	Chula Vista
Alex Robie *	Jr.	Multis	Chico State	Sacramento
Abraxaz Sanchez	Sr.	Middle Distance	Cal State LA	East Los Angeles
Evan Shimasaki *	Jr.	Pole Vault	UC San Diego	Seattle, Wash.
Leyikun Solomon *	Fr.	Hurdles	UC San Diego	La Mesa
Porte-Joie Tshiaba *	So.	Jumps	Cal State LA	Los Angeles
Anthony Victa *	Fr.	Jumps	Cal Poly Pomona	Laguna Hills
Blake Walkowiak *	Jr.	Throws	UC San Diego	Saugus
Nathan Yoder *	Fr.	Jumps	UC San Diego	San Jose
Jaye Washington	Sr.	Jumps	Humboldt State	Torrance
* - NCAA Provisional Qualifier
Additional nominees (by school):                           Cal Poly Pomona: Jordan Gibson (Jr., sprints); Kenneth Hamel (Sr., sprints); Ryan Peacock (Sr., throws); Matthew Velasco (Sr., throws); 4x100 relay (Taariq Chestnut-Davis, Kenneth Hamel, Kyle Johnston, Jordan Gibson); 4x400 relay (Nicholas Guajardo, Kyle Johnson, Ryan Fields, Kaelin Moore) Cal State East Bay: - no additional nominees - Cal State LA: - no additional nominees - Cal State San Marcos: - no additional nominees - Chico State: Ryan Elkins (Jr., throws); 4x400 relay (Calvin Igbanoi, Kevin Telford, Ian Hackett, Max Daniels) Humboldt State: Terrence Allen (Jr., throws); Brayden Leach (Sr., throws); Reece Pecaoco (So., sprints); Joseph Shanahan (Sr., distance) San Francisco State: - no additional nominees - Stanislaus State: Thomas Huerta (So., distance); Julian Johnson (So., sprints); Joseph Macareno (Fr., distance) UC San Diego: Matthew Amankonah (Fr., throws); Sam Blake (Sr., distance); Jake Selstad (Jr., distance)