All Nine Women’s Basketball Sophomores Moving on to Four-Years
By Jimmy Friery
The Santa Barbara City College Women's Basketball team continues to succeed even beyond their great 2025-26 season. Of the nine sophomores on the roster—who graduate tomorrow (Friday)—every one is moving on to a four-year school academically, with seven of them planning to continue their athletic careers, too.
It is a remarkable note for both Western State Conference (WSC) North Coach of the Year Sandrine Krul—who has been the head coach for over 20 years—and the legacy of talented student-athletes who have come through the program. Krul estimates that 97 percent of players have either graduated with an associate's degree and/or transferred to a four-year.
Two-time WSC North First Team selection Kaylee Lawson—a two-sport athlete who also competed on the Track & Field team—is moving on to Cal Poly Humboldt. Fellow two-time First Teamer Aariah Fox's next step will be in Honolulu at Chaminade University.
Missouri native Kenedy Nutter will stay well-traveled, playing next year at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.
Four of the graduating sophomores will compete at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Amarisse Camargo, Sierra Jewell, Siena Hoban, and Evette Allen all plan to play there. Dos Pueblos graduate and former Vaquero Leila Chisholm started every game for the Lynx the past two years, leading the team with 10.8 points per game in 2025-26.
Milan Jackson, a 2026 WSC North First Team member, will continue her academic journey at Indiana State. Felitsa Adil has a handful of four-year academic options she is exploring before coming to a final decision.
Six student-athletes from this year's team received academic scholarships. Fox won the Bud Revis Memorial Scholarship given to one men's and one women's student-athlete for "excellence in their sport, leadership skills, and high standards of good sportsmanship and teamwork."
Lawson won two—the Don Harcourt Track & Field Scholarship and CCCPEKD Kinesiology Student of the Year Scholarship.
Gali De La Cruz was the March CalHOPE Courage Award winner. Camargo and Jewell were two of four recipients of the Louise Lowry Davis Excellence in Athletics Scholarship. Adil rounded out the list, receiving a Vaqueros' Athletics Scholarship.
Finally, the Vaqueros won the 3C2A Scholar Team Award for the Fall 2025 semester, given to programs who have a team grade-point average above 3.00. Not only that, but the Women's Basketball team grade-point average was the highest among all of SBCC's Fall or Winter teams.
They were not bad on the court, either. Santa Barbara finished second in the WSC North with a 21-8, 10-2 record. The sophomores graduate with 43 across their two years—the third most in program history.