2024-25
Cuesta Co-Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year
WESTON GREENELSH
In 2003 the Cuesta Athletic Department instituted its first true Athlete of the Year Award. The coaching staff was encouraged to nominate their best athlete and a committee was created to weigh performance athletic as the highest criteria. Today Cuesta announced its Outstanding Athletes of the Year for the twenty-third time and the first to honor co-Male Athelete of the Year
2024 CCCAA State Cross Country Champion Weston Greenelsh's (San Luis Obispo: SLOHS) freshman season was a slow burn on his way to a pair of State Titles. Greenelsh finished 3rd in his career opening performance at the Tour de Cuesta but dropped to 38th at the 100-man Oxnard Invitational two weeks later. After that, he never left the leaders' pack. He finished 2nd at Monterey Peninsula, 9th at Riverside and 3rd in the SoCal Preview to end the regular season. He finally made his move in the season-ending championship meets. He was selected to the 2024 all-Western State Conference First Team after a 5th place finish at the WSC Meet and moved up to earn a Bronze in the SoCal Regional Meet, before finally breaking the tape at the 2024 CCCAA State Championships. Greenelsh cleared the course at Fresno's Woodward Park in just 20:38.1 to claim his title, while outpacing the pack by almost a full ten seconds. He is also the first Cuesta Harrier to win the State Championship since Sean McDermott in 2016.
Greenelsh's first win of the season at the CCCAA State Cross Country Championships put a target on his back as the man to beat in the Spring and he ran with that fire all season. He kept on winning races during track and broke the tape, at least once in each of his first three meets, until Coach Robert Neely started booking events featuring more four-year schools with tougher and more experienced competition. Greenelsh took 5th at Occidental, 13th at Cal Poly and, 20th at San Francisco State, but it was all part of the larger plan. Greenelsh closed the season with a flurry of top performances in the CCCAA's championship meets. He won Western State Conference titles in both the 800 and 1,500-meter runs, plus a Gold at the CCCAA Regional Finals in the 5,000 and a Bronze in 1,500-meter. A week later, he earned his second CCCAA State Title of the year in the 5,000 meters run. He took the race by a margin of only .38, before also claiming Silver in metric-mile, where he missed out on a third title by 1.75 seconds. Greenelsh has joined fellow Harrier Miranda Daschian, who won both a CCCAA State title for Cross Country and the 5,000m in 2016-17, and Aquatic Star Chris Lund, who was named the 1998 CCCAA State Water Polo Player of the Year and won a CCCAA State title in the 200-butterfly during the Spring, as one of three Cuesta Athletes to reach the pinnacle of CCCAA competition in two sports. His performance at the State Meet also was also recognized at the conference level, as he was awarded as the 2025 WSC Track Athlete of the Year.
Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year
2003 David Lamar, Carpinteria, CA (Baseball)
2004 Kevin Bradley, Long Beach, CA (Water Polo)
2005 Mike Brown, Davis, CA (Baseball)
2006 Jeff Chaney, Arroyo Grande, CA (Water Polo)
2007 Michael Williams, Sutter Creek, CA (Wrestling)
2008 Quentin Cate, Cambria, CA (Baseball)
2009 Tom Schumacher, Dudelange, LUX (Basketball)
2010 Roger Guardia, Matadepera, ESP (Basketball)
2011 Eric Marsh, Arroyo Grande, CA (Water Polo)
2012 Malte Kramer, Freiburg, DEU (Basketball)
2013 Brady Moore, Santa Barbara, CA (Water Polo)
2014 Georan Meendering, Visalia, CA (Swimming)
2015 Connor Fisher, Lake Isabella, CA (Cross Country, Track)
2016 Brendan Jenkins, Pleasanton, CA (Baseball)
2017 Sean McDermott, Kings Beach, CA (Cross Country)
2018 Andrew Navigato, Riverside, CA (Baseball)
2019 Joshua Wilson-Murry, San Luis Obispo, CA (Basketball)
2020 Jack Felsted, Visalia, CA (Water Polo)
2021 Lucas Esenwein, Morro Bay, CA (Swimming)
2022 Gabriel Katches, Paso Robles, CA (Track & Field)
2023 Zachary Tallerman, Berkeley, CA (Baseball)
2024 Dante Ianora, Walnut Creek, CA (Water Polo)
2025 GRANT HUSTON, Gig Harbor, WA (Swimming)
& WESTON GREENELSH, San Luis Obispo, CA (Cross Country)
