Posted: May 01, 2026

Anderson, Santos nab Student-Athletes of the Year honors

VALLEJO, Calif. – Men's soccer's Noah Anderson and Aysia Santos, a member of the women's basketball program, were recognized as Cal Maritime Athletics' Student-Athletes of the Year at Friday's Senior Awards event inside Rizza Auditorium.

Anderson, an All-California Pacific Conference Second Team selection as a defender — he is a two-time all-conference recipient — also earned NAIA Scholar-Athlete distinction for the second time in his career this past fall. League officials also named the Kapolei, Hawaii native to its All-Academic team for the second time in as many seasons shortly after the Keelhaulers' season concluded on Halloween.

Known across the conference for his defensive prowess as a member of men's soccer's backline, and as one of the Cal Pac's top defenders in recent history, Anderson started every game played in 2025, only took three shots, but scored his first collegiate goal on one of those attempts.

Off the pitch, the team's captain doubles as a team manager for the search and rescue drone senior project, serves as a tutor and performs supplemental instruction for three different classes.

Supplemental instruction involves tutoring an entire class, a position similar to a teaching assistant at other institutions. Anderson, a marine engineering technology major, held this role for three classes this academic year and a total of six throughout his undergraduate career.

Student-Athlete of the Year is the latest accolade collected this academic year by Santos who will earn her degree in business administration with a concentration in international business & logistics at tomorrow's Commencement at Bodnar Field.

The catalyst for one of women's basketball's most successful seasons in program history ended her athletic career with All-Cal Pac First Team distinction, the second year in a row conference officials bestowed their highest on-court honor to the native of Chula Vista, California.

The four-time Cal Pac Offensive Player of the Week — Alexsis Brown is the only student-athlete who earned more weekly awards in a single season (6) than Santos — ended the year ranked, among all Cal Pac players, third in assists-to-turnovers ratio (1.1) and points scored (329), fourth in field goal made (129), free throws made (50), assists (55), points per game (16.5), fifth in field goal percentage (.415) and free throw percentage (.676), No. 11 in steals (30), No. 12 in three-point field goals made (21), No. 14 in three-point percentage (.200), No. 15 in offensive rebounds (21) and No. 20 in blocks (2).

One of two Keelhaulers who started all 20 games throughout the 2025-26 season, Santos led the team in scoring, averaged 3.2 rebounds per game, 2.8 assists per game and 1.5 steals per game, all career-high figures, in her fourth year with the program.

Santos scored a single-game team-high 41 points vs. Navajo Tech, the highest point total scored by a Cal Pac player in any game this past season and third-highest in program history, in addition to adding her name throughout the program's records book in numerous categories:

Single-game rankings:
- Shares the all-time record in field goals made (17)
- Tied for third in points (41)
Single-season rankings:
- Fifth-highest points per game average (16.5)
- Sixth in assists per game (3.3)
- Eighth in field goals made (129)
- Tied for ninth in assists (55)
All-time career rankings
- Third in assists (240)
- Fourth in points scored (852), assists per game (3.0) and games started (61)
- Fifth in field goals made (314)
- Seventh in three-point field goals made (99)
- Eighth-highest scoring average (11.8 ppg) and games played (80)
- Tenth in free throws made (125)

The Senior Awards event took place one day after Cal Pac Conference Commissioner Don Ott announced former Director of Athletics and Physical Education Karen Lee Yoder as its Athletics Director of the Year, as voted by the Cal Pac Directors Council.