West Ottawa celebrates 23 seniors headed to play college sports across the country

The West Ottawa senior class will send 23 athletes to the college ranks.

The athletes were celebrated at the Panthers' annual signing celebration in the West Ottawa gym on Wednesday, May 13.

There are four NCAA Division I athletes among the group.

Cross country and track runner Ava Porras committed to run at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Adam Berent will play soccer at Western Michigan, Will Nagelvoort will golf at Monmouth University in New Jersey and Grady Armstrong will swim at Canisius University in New York.

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In NCAA Division II, soccer player Jayden Chico signed with Davenport University, Colten Shoemaker will play soccer at Northwood, Charlie Sanders will run track at Grand Valley State and Le'Anna Zavala will wrestle at GVSU.

NAIA signees included Kris Bronkhorst in rugby (Aquinas), Leah Johnson in volleyball (Mount Mary), Cooper Rabbai in lacrosse (Lawrence Tech) and CJ Traylor in football (Marian).

The West Ottawa senior athletes who committed to play sports in college were honored on Wednesday, May 13, in the West Ottawa gym.

Several are headed close to home at Hope College: Luke Catton in swimming, Griffin Dobb in lacrosse, Quentin Edwards in football, Jakob Follett in track, Jonathan Kern in soccer, Caleb Montgomery in football and Hunter Turkstra in hockey.

Other NCAA Division III commits included Ronald Ferguson in football (Adrian), Ivan Mata in baseball (Adrian), Eli McNeely in swimming (Calvin) and Saunder Sotok in soccer (Calvin).