The562’s coverage of Millikan athletics in the 2023-24 school year is sponsored by Curtis Boyer.
Last month the Millikan Rams celebrated their senior student-athletes going on to play at the collegiate level with their annual spaghetti dinner and silent auction fundraiser in Howard Lyon Gym.
This event has been running for more than a decade as once again Millikan student-athletes sold the tickets for the dinner that was donated by John’s, Avenue 3, Portofino, Amazon Fresh and others. Silent auction items were also donated by local businesses, and those results were announced after the Rams took a moment to honor the seniors who will be continuing their academic and athletic careers in college.
“This first started just to refurbish a couple of things,” Millikan girls’ athletic director Lorene Morgan said. “We needed a new scorers table (in the gym), and I say ‘new’ but I’m not even sure we had a scorers table at that time.”
Millikan got the table and more so now the latest goal is new scoreboards. The Rams and Morgan have tried for years to get them, but COVID and rising prices go in their way.
“We are in the process of approving the scoreboard that we want,” she said. “I am hopeful that we’ll have it in place for our sports next season.”
Millikan soccer star and Moore League Offensive Player of the Year Audrey Stewart was among the 40+ student-athletes honored, and she will study biology at UC Riverside.
Stewart had a list of schools that offered her specific focus of crime scene investigation and forensics, and UC Riverside put itself on that list after Stewart played in a random exhibition game.
The Puerto Rico women’s national soccer team is coached by UC Riverside coach, Nat Gonzalez. When they needed a state-side exhibition last year, he called a friend at Slammers FC to get a practice team together.
Stewart was one of the Slammers players selected to scrimmage the Puerto Ricans.
“They originally told me I wasn’t going to play, and we had driven all the way out to Chula Vista,” Stewart said, “But I went in about 15 minutes in. I scored and drew the game-tying penalty kick. Within the week I was in contact (with UCR).”
Stewart joins a group of former Rams girls’ soccer players to enter the Big West Conference.
“(Millikan coach Tino Nunez) runs the team like a college team,” Stewart added. “He expects a lot out of us in practice and in games.The way he runs the program puts me in the right mindset to get into that kind of rhythm in college.”
Millikan Senior Student-Athletes
Football
Kyler Parker (Utah Tech), Loyall Mouzon (Fresno State), Greg McClendon (San Jose State), Alex Romero (Cal Poly), Matt Robinson (San Jose State), Ryder McGuire (Benedictine), Jayden Icassiano (Benedictine), Riley Tuggle (Benedictine), Mason Scott (Stetson), Ethaniah Steffany (El Camino College)
Girls’ Water polo
Larsen Jensen (Cal Poly), Angelina Keller (UC Santa Cruz), Jorja Neumann (Augustana College), Daniella Fernandez (Cal Poly)
Girls’ Soccer
Audrey Stewart (UC Riverside), Alissay Fang (UC Irvine), Emily Marino (Clarke University), Chloe Creclius (Whittier College), Ryleigh Tubbs (Sonoma State), Samantha Soria (LBCC), Ari Rivera (Cerritos College), Madi Cardenas (Cypress College)
Boys’ Soccer
Danyal Showe (Cypress College), Diego Ramirez (Gonzaga), Jacob Chavez (El Camino College) Andrew Estrada (Cypress College), Chris Ramirez (LA Harbor)
Girls’ Basketball
Emily Piper (Caldwell University), Jasmine Hecht (LBCC)
Boys’ Golf
Tyler Lao (Chapman University)
Boys’ Volleyball
Ian Bird (Calvin University), Logan Karkanen (LBCC or Goldenwest)
Track & Field/Cross Country
Jason Parra (Notre Dame), Jack Madden (LBCC)
Wrestling
Logan Stouvenel (Cerritos College)
Boys’ Lacrosse
Mateo Venegas (LBSU), Elias Abea (LBSU), James Dodd (LBSU), Justin Linares (Oregon)
Softball
Ava Scaffel (San Diego State), Katie Knarr (Rhode Island), Grace Shary (King University), Hailey Ibarra (Vanguard), Mikaela Pacheco (LBCC), Lela Asi (LBCC)
Cheer
Bianca Arzate (San José State)
Baseball
Enrique Lopez (Hope University), Nolan Patterson (Cerritos College), Jacob Robinson (Cypress College), Troy Sonoqui (Cerritos College), Evan Martinez (Cypress College), Ari Farrell (LBCC)
