College sports: Wagner among PC athletic award-winners, signings

Peninsula College in May announced its annual athletics awards winners, which included Sequim’s Hannah Wagner and Port Angeles’ Wyatt Dunning.

The Wally Sigmar and Art Feiro awards for leadership, athleticism, academics and citizenship were given to one player on each team were presented to: Wagner for women’s soccer; Dunning for men’s basketball; Matthew Enriquez of Waikoloa, Hawaii, for men’s soccer; and, Shania Moananu of Kalihi, Hawaii, for women’s basketball.

The Pirate Gold awards for inspiration, dedication, accomplishment and ambassadorship went to: Blake Plummer of Juneau, Alaska, for women’s soccer; Alfie Tucker of Devon, England, for men’s soccer; Lupe’lani Vaaia of Anchorage, Alaska, in women’s basketball, and Javon Ervin for men’s basketball.

College officials also announced that seven members of its women’s soccer team signed to play at four-year schools, with Wagner signing on to play at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., and Plummer to play at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, B.C.

Photo courtesy of Peninsula College / Peninsula College soccer player Matthew Enriquez, here with his head coach Jake Hughes, was the men’s team’s recipient of the Wally Sigmar Art Feiro award for leadership, academics and citizenship.

Photo courtesy of Peninsula College / Peninsula College soccer player Matthew Enriquez, here with his head coach Jake Hughes, was the men’s team’s recipient of the Wally Sigmar Art Feiro award for leadership, academics and citizenship.

Alexia Rodriguez-Burdeaux has signed to play at Northwest University in Kirkland, while PC teammate Keilee Silva signed to play at St. Martin’s University in Lacey. Taya Bohenko will continue her collegiate career at California State University-Dominguez Hills, and Sydney Soskis and Caneel Corpuz both signed to play at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Earlier in the month, Peninsula announced that seven members of the Northwest Athletic Conference champion men’s team signed to move on to four-year schools.

The players moving include: Fin Muotone of Manchester, England, at NCAA Division I University of Pennsylvania; Tucker, to the University of of West Alabama; Pip van der Ende of Alkmaar, Netherlands, at the University of Northern British Columbia; Enriquez at Point Loma Nazarene; Tsubasa Abe of Saitama, Japan, at Wilmington University, and Zach Beehre signed to play at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. Manny Garcia previously signed to play for Oregon Institute of Technology.