Pasco-Hernando State College Volume XII, Issue II - Fall 2018 | Page 15

KUDOS TO PHSC STUDENT ATHLETES KUDOS TO COACHES
Fast-Pitch Softball PHSC Men’s Baseball Clinches 700 th Win for Head Coach
Kaelin Ruiz
*Debra J. Hay Outstanding Student-Athlete
Sacha Olivera
Most Outstanding Player
Steve Winterling, PHSC Athletic Director and Men’s Baseball Head
Coach, reached his 700 th career win against Florida Southern JV,
in Lakeland on April 12, 2018. It was his 683 rd win at PHSC and
he won 17 games serving as the head coach at Florida College in
1982. Winterling is in his 27 th year as the head coach at PHSC. He
started PHSC’s first intercollegiate baseball team in March 1991
and built the PHSC program by recruiting quality student-athletes
to play against top competition throughout the state of Florida.
More than 30 players have signed professional contracts and
many others have gone on to outstanding four-year institutions.
Coaches Cross the Finish Line
Men’s Basketball
Adley Eliacin
Most Outstanding Player
Men’s Baseball
Jacki Wachtel, Head Cross Country Coach, and her Assistant
Coach Lee Rietsma both completed the Boston Marathon (26.2
miles) in April. Wachtel was one of eight duo teams that qualified
for the marathon in which she pushed Katie, a disabled athlete,
for Ainsley’s Angels of America, finishing in 4:20:00. In March,
Wachtel won first place in the women’s division of the Sarasota
Half Marathon with a time of 1:24:22. Rietsma finished his Boston
Marathon solo run in 3:04:26. He also completed the Illinois
Marathon with a time of 2:56:54, placing 38 th overall out of 1,140
runners and first in his age group out of 89 runners.
Trey Pearce
FCSAA/NJCAA DII Region 8 Defensive Player
of the Year
*Debra J. Hay Outstanding Student-Athlete
Ryan Russell
Most Outstanding Player
NJCAA DII Region 8 All-Region Team
PHSC placed four position players on the NJCAA DII Region 8 All-
Region Men’s Baseball Team: sophomore outfielders Ryan Russell
(.384) and Caleb Walls (.385); and sophomore third basemen Zack
Ghelfi (.263) and Brad Hession (.347). PHSC sophomore pitchers,
Tyler Buchanan (7-2, 2.67) and Sam Prince (10-1, 4.08), with
freshman Dan Nicholls (8-3, 4.63), also were named to the NJCAA
DII Region 8 All-Region Team.
*The Debra J. Hay Outstanding Student-Athlete Award
is the highest honor given to one male and one female
student-athlete who excels in the classroom, athletic
field and community.
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