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CSS Nets 72 Winter/Spring Academic All-UMAC Honorees

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ST. PAUL -- 302 winter and spring student-athletes from member institutions earned Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Academic All-Conference honors the league announced on Tuesday. Those award-winners join the 326 fall individual academic all-conference awards to account for a total of 628 accolades throughout the 2011-2012 academic year.

To be eligible for nomination, student-athletes must meet the following criteria:

1. Post a 3.50 or better semester grade point average based on a 4.0 scale.
2. Compete in the sport in which he or she is nominated in the season that corresponds with the selection.

The College of St. Scholastica, who claimed the most individual winter and spring honorees in both 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, remained on top in 2011-12 with 72 academic all-conference honorees. As a league, the UMAC fell just five individuals short of its all-time winter and spring high number of 307 academic all-conference awards, which was set in 2009-10.

Northwestern College came in second with 56 academic all-conference winners, while Martin Luther College followed with 45 individual accolades. The University of Minnesota, Morris was fourth with 37 awards.

Women's track and field took the top spot in terms of the individual sports, claiming 56 awards. With 48 academic accolades, women's basketball followed close behind women's track and field while baseball took third place with 43. All but one of the eight winter and spring sports boasted 30 or more individual accolades.

Click here to view the complete listing of the 2011-2012 winter and spring individual academic all-conference awards.

In the team academic all-conference awards competition, Martin Luther claimed the best grade point averages (GPA) in four sports including softball, men's tennis, women's tennis and women's track and field. Northwestern took two of the remaining four spots (men's track and field, men's basketball), with Presentation College and Northland College claiming the top GPA in baseball and women's basketball. UMAC-sponsored sports that occur in the winter and spring and their corresponding top academic teams are listed below.

Sport School Team GPA
Baseball Presentation College 3.210
Softball Martin Luther College 3.369
Men's Tennis Martin Luther College 3.360
Women's Tennis Martin Luther College 3.682
Men's Track & Field Northwestern College 3.388
Women's Track & Field Martin Luther College 3.526
Men's Basketball Northwestern College 3.214
Women's Basketball Northland College 3.690

St. Scholastica Honorees
Name Sport
Josh Brodersen (Vulcan, Mich./Norway HS ) Baseball
Kyle Flagstad (Hinckley, Minn./Hinckley-Finlayson HS) Baseball
Mark Harber (Austin, Minn./Austin HS) Baseball
Tom Juberian (Park Rapids, Minn./Park Rapids HS) Baseball
Brandon Peterson (Burnsville, Minn./Apple Valley HS) Baseball
Thomas Rogers (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS ) Baseball
Tom Spaniol (St. Joseph, Minn./St. Cloud Cathedral HS ) Baseball
Michael Swenson (Scandia, Minn./Forest Lake HS) Baseball
Joel Wuorio (Two Harbors, Minn./Two Harbors HS) Baseball
Bonnie Kowalczyk (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls HS) Softball
Barb Malyuk (Ashland, Wis./Ashland HS) Softball
Darcy Roach (East Grand Forks, Minn./Sacred Heart HS) Softball
Merryssa Tiedeman (Zumbrota, Minn/Zumbrota-Mazeppa HS) Softball
Andrea Wick (New Prague, Minn./New Prague HS) Softball
Jacob Engelstad (Thief River Falls, Minn./Lincoln HS) Men's Tennis
Kevin Hilpert (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater HS) Men's Tennis
Nick Lambrecht (Stacy, Minn./North Branch HS (Minn.-Duluth)) Men's Tennis
Nick Lind (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) Men's Tennis
Cody Mauston (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS) Men's Tennis
Kelsey Geiger (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park HS) Women's Tennis
Alexis Gunderson (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS) Women's Tennis
Megan Lawrence (Park Rapids, Minn./Park Rapids HS) Women's Tennis
Rachael Zwiener (St. Cloud, Minn./Home School) Women's Tennis
Mason Bacso (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata HS (St. John’s University)) Men's Track & Field
Ben Carlson (Rosemount, Minn./Rosemount HS (Saint Mary’s)) Men's Track & Field
Peter Drinkwine (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) Men's Track & Field
Tim Dunstan (Dollar Bay, Mich./Dollar Bay HS) Men's Track & Field
Ryan Guentzel (Two Harbors, Minn./Two Harbors HS) Men's Track & Field
Charlie Habermann (Proctor, Minn./Proctor HS) Men's Track & Field
Justin Hanson (Atwater, Minn./Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City HS) Men's Track & Field
John Howard (Big Lake, Minn./Big Lake HS) Men's Track & Field
Jimmy Linn (Anoka, Minn./Anoka HS) Men's Track & Field
Tom Lyscio (Baxter, Minn./Brainerd HS) Men's Track & Field
Aaron Marcella (Virginia, Minn./Virginia HS) Men's Track & Field
Ryan Murphy (Spooner, Wis./Spooner HS) Men's Track & Field
Joe Ohlin (Baxter, Minn./Brainerd HS) Men's Track & Field
Nick Wanner (Maple Grove, Minn./Totino-Grace HS) Men's Track & Field
Bre Adams (Crystal, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong HS) Women's Track & Field
Mariah Berg (Bagley, Minn./Bagley HS) Women's Track & Field
Erika Birkeland (Prior Lake, Minn./Prior Lake HS) Women's Track & Field
Alex Blair (Drake, Saskatchewan/Lanigan Central HS) Women's Track & Field
Molly Burgstahler (Sandpoint, Idaho/Sandpoint HS) Women's Track & Field
Brianna Buske (Bloomer, Wis./Bloomer HS) Women's Track & Field
Christa Diedrich (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) Women's Track & Field
Brea Durovec (Meadowlands, Minn./Floodwood HS) Women's Track & Field
Erin Eckman (St. Anthony, Minn./St. Anthony Village HS ) Women's Track & Field
Tina Ewing (Maple Grove, Minn./Osseo HS) Women's Track & Field
Stacey Gustafson (Merrifield, Minn./Crosby-Ironton HS) Women's Track & Field
Nikki Hughes (Lake Nebagamon, Wis./Northwestern HS) Women's Track & Field
Chelsea Johnson (North Branch, Minn./Chisago Lakes HS) Women's Track & Field
Katlin Krause (Motley, Minn./Pillager HS) Women's Track & Field
Olivia Krejcarek (Manitowoc, Wis./Manitowoc Roncalli HS) Women's Track & Field
Bre Lohn (Benson, Minn./Benson HS) Women's Track & Field
Eleanor Magnuson (Champlin Park, Minn./Champlin Park HS) Women's Track & Field
Brittnie Menze (Ottertail, Minn./New York Mills HS) Women's Track & Field
Hallie Miller (Waconia, Minn./Waconia HS) Women's Track & Field
Kelsey Mudek (Esko, Minn./Esko HS) Women's Track & Field
Kailee Ogden (Warroad, Minn./Warroad HS) Women's Track & Field
JaNae Pahlen (Roseau, Minn./Roseau HS) Women's Track & Field
Kayla Roberge (Burnsville, Minn./Academy of Holy Angels) Women's Track & Field
Hannah Roy (Cloquet, Minn./Cloquet HS) Women's Track & Field
Emily Schwantke (Brook Park, Minn./Hinckley-Finlayson HS) Women's Track & Field
Alec Seeley (Cadott, Wis./Cadott HS) Women's Track & Field
Jackie Thelen (Randall, Minn./Little Falls HS) Women's Track & Field
Rachel Thelen (Park Rapids, Minn./Park Rapids HS) Women's Track & Field
Caitlin Vaughan (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) Women's Track & Field
Brett Tester (Andover, Minn./Andover HS) Men's Basketball
David Walsh (Melbourne, Australia/St. Kevin’s HS (Vermilion CC)) Men's Basketball
Laura Amys (South Range, Wis./Superior HS) Women's Basketball
Elena Huber (Northfield, Minn./Northfield HS) Women's Basketball
Emily Glomski (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia/Dhahran HS) Women's Basketball
Haley Hoyer (Pelican Rapids, Minn./Pelican Rapids HS (North Dakota State College of Science)) Women's Basketball

 

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