Gainesville, FL

Santa Fe Athletics celebrated 42 of 44 student-athletes who graduated or will be graduating this summer during the college wide ceremony on Friday, May 1st. The Athletic Department earned an average GPA of 3.26 for the 2025-26 school year! All 44 student-athletes, however, will be matriculating to four year institutions for a department success rate of 100%!

Santa Fe Softball ended their season with 48 wins, their most in a season since 2008! They received a bid to the NJCAA DI Softball World Series held in Oxford, Alabama, where they rattled off three elimination games in a row and finished as one of the last six teams remaining in the country. This was softball's first trip to the national tournament since 2013, and the first trip to a national tournament for any Santa Fe Athletics program since 2016.

In the 25/26 academic year, Santa Fe athletics posted a departent GPA over a 3.0; including 70 student-athletes over a 3.0 GPA! In addition, all five sports at Santa Fe posted a GPA above a 3.25 in the Fall!

Below is a list of student-athletes who will be continuing their sport at four-year institutions! The list will be updated regularly with an individual story for each student-athlete.

Santa Fe Saints who have signed to play at the next level:

Aniyah Anderson (Women's Basketball) – Saint Leo University - Story

Shawn Andrade (Baseball) – Mercer University - Story

Molly Bender (Softball) - University of West Florida - Story

Ryan Chase (Baseball) – University of Kansas - Story

McKenzie Cox (Softball) - University of West Florida - Story

Sydney English (Softball) - Penn State University - Story

Malanie Francis (Women's Basketball) – University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff - Story

Emily Geaquinto (Volleyball) - UT Chattanooga - Story

Tegan Grizzard (Softball) - University of West Georgia - Story

Mariana Haas (Volleyball) – University of Tennessee at Martin - Story

Taylor Hackett (Women's Basketball) - Florida Memorial University - Story

Kailyn Howard (Volleyball) – Carson-Newman University - Story

Madison Howard (Volleyball) – Roosevelt University - Story

Stephen Joyce (Baseball) – Lynn University - Story

Kolten Leach (Baseball) – Florida A&M University - Story

Dylan Lovelace (Baseball) – University of New Orleans - Story

Belle Mancillas (Softball) - Florida Atlantic University - Story

Jessica McKee (Volleyball) – New College of Florida - Story

Ben Monger (Baseball) - West Virginia State University - Story

Alex Nokes (Men's Basketball) – Radford University - Story

Matthew Pagan (Baseball) – Virginia Commonwealth University - Story

Linnea Preston (Volleyball) – Saint Leo University - Story

Isabella Spence (Women's Basketball) - Florida Memorial University - Story

Wyatt Tesar (Baseball) - Barry University - Story

Jaz Thompson (Softball) - Florida Polytechnic University - Story

Nathalia Vasquez (Volleyball) - Baptist University of Florida - Story

Harvey Wilson (Men's Basketball) - Mississippi Valley State University - Story

Brady Wright (Baseball) – University of Tampa - Story