Fresh off its Senior Day victory vs. Saint Mary's on Saturday night, a league-high three Broncos were named to the West Coast Conference All-Academic List, including First Team member Nate Kratch. In addition, Santa Clara is scheduled to play LMU on Fri., March 6 at 8 pm in Las Vegas in the opening round of the WCC Tournament. The game will be televised live on BYUtv and Wtv.com. The winner will advance to play BYU on Saturday at 8 pm on ESPN2.
Kratch was one of just 10 named to the First Team. He carries at 3.32 grade point average in Psychology. Kratch is finishing his degree in June, graduating in three years. He will begin graduate school in the summer as he has two seasons left after this year.
Andrew Papenfus and Dominic Romeo were also named to the WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention list. Papenfus carries a 3.25 GPA and will graduate in June with a degree in Marketing.
Romeo, who graduated Magna cum laude with a 3.84 GPA as a double major in Political Science and Chinese from Notre Dame in Spring 2014, carries a 3.8 GPA in his graduate work in Theology. Romeo was named to the Allstate NABC Good Works team in February and will travel to the Final Four in Indianapolis in early April as part of the honor.