By: Jacob Oyler: Athletic Communications Director
Student-athletes in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) continue to achieve in both competition and the classroom. On Thursday, the MIAC announced its 2024-25 Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference honorees, and the Saints had ninety-seven athletes make the cut.
To qualify for Academic All-MIAC status, student-athletes must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors by academic standards with a minimum cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Students must also complete one full-time academic year at their current institution before becoming eligible for the honor. An athlete must be a member of a MIAC sponsored varsity sports team, be academically and athletically eligible, have utilized a season of participation per NCAA and MIAC definitions, and have remained on the sports roster through the conclusion of the sports season to be eligible for Academic All-Conference honors.
Here are the list of recipients by sport for St. Scholastica:
Baseball
Mason Argir (Brainerd, Minn./Brainerd HS (Central Lakes College))
Andrew Barich (Crystal, Minn./Armstrong HS)
Mason Boos (Duluth, Minn/Duluth Marshall HS)
Adam Braun (Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS (Central Lakes CC))
Marcos Gallegos (Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS)
Nico Gallegos (Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS)
Nate Hammerback (Alexandria MN/Alexandria HS)
Ethan Hursh (Forest Lake, Minn./Forest Lake HS)
Jonah Johnson (New York Mills, Minn./New York Mills HS)
Elias Jouppi (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS)
Matt Juza (Rice Lake, Wis./Rice Lake HS)
Kyle Oswald (Mahtomedi, Minn./Mahtomedi HS)
Beau Plaisance (New Prague, Minn./New Prague HS)
Jake Schelonka (Sartell, Minn./Sartell HS)
Spencer Schmidt (Alexandria, Minn./Alexandria HS)
Sam Shopbell (Prior Lake, MN/Prior Lake HS (Fayetteville CC))
Drew Sparrow (Edina, Minn./Edina HS)
Joe Udd (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS)
Zeke Walton (Olivia, Minn/BOLD HS (Ridgewater CC))
Jacob Worley (Ocoee, Fla./Legacy Charter HS (Crown College))
Ethan Zimmerman (Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS)
Men's Basketball
Koy Nelson (Port Wing, Wis./South Shore HS)
Aaron Keykal (Princeton, Minn./Princeton HS)
Jacquez Overstreet (Appleton, Wis./Oshkosh West (Marian University))
Women's Basketball
Jada Bierschbach (Richmond, Minn./Rocori HS)
Hope Carlson (Proctor, Minn./Proctor HS)
Jackie Johnson (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS)
Kloey Lind (Pine City, Minn./Pine City HS)
Men's Golf
Connor O'Hara (Hermantown, Minn./Hermantown HS)
Andy Shaffer (Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS)
Women's Golf
Olivia Martalock (Hermantown MN/Hermantown HS)
Madelyn Morris (Duluth, MN/Duluth East HS)
Emily Nystrom (Cambridge, Minn./Cambridge-Isanti HS)
Carissa Oberding (Cottage Grove, Minn./Park HS)
Men's Hockey
Nathan Adrian (Roseau, Minn./Roseau HS)
Brodie Girod (Clavet, SK, Canada/Clavet HS)
Hunter Hanson (Blaine, Minn./Blaine HS)
Braeden Holcomb (Grand Rapids, Minn./Grand Rapids HS)
Nick Lanigan (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS)
Max Lasitsa (Minsk, Belarus)
Alessio Raso (Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC, Canada/The Lawrenceville School)
Eino Rissanen (Sonvillier, Switzerland/Lycée Blaise-Cendrars)
Jacob Seitz (Mountain Iron, Minn./Virginia HS)
Tristan Shewchuk (Saskatoon, SK, Canada/St. Joseph HS)
Brenden Stroble (Livonia, MI/Adlai E. Stevenson HS)
Isaac Suppin (Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada/George Elliot Secondary)
Women's Hockey
Paige Blattner (Avon, Minn./River Lakes HS)
Makenzie Cole (Cohasset, Minn./Grand Rapids HS)
Sophie Parendo (Proctor, Minn./Proctor HS)
Sara Parent (Otsego, Minn./Rogers HS)
Lyndi Schubert (Mantorville, Minn./Kasson-Mantorville HS)
Softball
Payton Lang (Lakeville, Minn./Lakeville South HS)
Lauren Laviano (Maplewood, Minn./Mahtomedi HS)
Jadyn Lind (Hermantown, Minn./Hermantown HS)
Samantha Paniagua (Corona, Calif./Centennial HS)
Men's Tennis
Jonas Abeleda (Sydney, Australia/St Aloysius' College)
Drew Anderson (Hibbing, Minn./Hibbing HS)
Nicolas Greis Coria (Buenos Aires, Argentina/St. Trinnean's School)
Jack Onkka (Thief River Falls, Minn./Thief River Falls HS)
Dane Patten (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS)
Reece Patten (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS)
Andy Shaffer (Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS)
Women's Tennis
Katia Bartels (St. Paul, Minn./Mounds View HS)
Mishell Benitez (Ambato, Ecuador/Colegio Tecnico Particular a Distancia José Martí)
Chloe Hasbargen (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS)
Hailey Hokanson (Sauk Centre, Minn./Sauk Centre HS)
Annika Lundell (Hibbing, Minn./Hibbing HS)
Julia Maier (Hamburg, Germany/Heidberg Gymnasium)
Maria Sosa (Mazatenango, Guatemala/Instituto de Educación a Distancia)
Men's Track and Field
Sean Alfaro Diedrich (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS)
Calvin Boone (St. Paul, Minn./St. Paul Highland Park HS)
Joel Bouley (Zimmerman, MN/Zimmerman HS)
Lars Dewall (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS)
Derek Douglas (Escanaba, Mich./Escanaba HS)
Matthew Erickson (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS)
Jeffrey Kayfes (Buhl, Minn./Mountain Iron-Buhl HS)
Noah Kubicek (Owatona, Minn./Owatonna HS)
Anthony Mahowald (Sartell, Minn./Sartell HS)
Joshua Monreal (Proctor, Minn./Proctor HS)
Nathan Neu (Ortonville, Minn./Ortonville HS)
Ashton Niemi (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS)
Cale Prosen (Cloquet, MN/Cloquet HS)
Kaedyn Redig (St. Charles, Minn./St. Charles HS)
Weston Stroschein (Alborn, Minn./South Ridge HS)
Women's Track and Field
Regan DeWitt (Bemidji, Minn./Bemidji HS)
Jaden Ellefson (Saginaw, Minn./South Ridge HS)
Ella Engen (Clearbrook, Minn./Clearbrook-Gonvick HS)
Ava Fink (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS)
MollyKate Hagen (Plainview, Minn./Plainview-Elgin-Millville HS)
Madeline Hartley (Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS)
Ella Heins (Ogilvie, MN/Ogilvie High School)
Grace Hrabik (Esko, Minn./Esko HS)
Grace McCormick (Duluth, Minn./Denfeld HS)
Kayla Nelson (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS)
Elli Schritz (Mora, Minn./Mora HS)
Toria Strampe (Austin, Minn./Austin HS)
Ella Stritesky (Rogers, Minn./Rogers HS)
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