MIAC release
Twenty Macalester College winter and spring sport athletes have received Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Academic All-Conference honors, as announced by the conference today. A total of 48 Macalester athletes have received this award this past academic year, with 28 fall sport athletes honored earlier.
The MIAC recognized 387 athletes who represented the conference's thirteen institutions. Student-athletes must be a sophomore, junior, or senior with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale to qualify for MIAC Academic All-Conference recognition. Athletically, student-athletes in basketball, hockey, baseball, softball and tennis must compete in 50% of their team’s varsity regular season contests. Swimming & diving and track & field student-athletes must qualify for the conference finals to be eligible.
Macalester's 20 Academic All-MIAC award winners from the winter and spring seasons are:
Women’s Basketball
Ann Baltzer (So., Bismarck, N.D.)
Trina PaStarr (So., Minneapolis, Minn. / Southwest)
Suzie Szumowski (Jr., Northbrook, Ill. / Glenbrook North)
Women’s Swimming & Diving
Annie Flanagan (Jr., Madison, Wis. / East)
Men’s Track & Field
Wade Eckstrom (So., La Crescent, Minn.)
Will Kennedy (Sr., San Anselmo, Calif. / Branson School)
Tyson Morgan (Jr., Lewiston, Me.)
Martin Stenman Andersson (So., Uppsala, Sweden / IT-Gymnasiet Uppsala)
Women’s Track & Field
Emily Matthews (So., Fort Collins, Colo.)
Men’s Tennis
Brad Goldstein (Sr., Tucson, Ariz. / Catalina Foothills)
Aaron Heerboth (Sr., Tucson, Ariz. / Catalina Foothills)
Titus Levy (So., New York, N.Y. / Fieldston School)
Women’s Tennis
Jenna Harris (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio / Seven Hills)
Becky Nieber (Jr., Madison, Wis. / East)
Amanda Wenzel (So., Green Bay, Wis. / Southwest)
Baseball
Adam Kent (Sr., Madison, Wis. / West)
Softball
Katie Grudnowski (Sr., Minnetonka, Minn. / Blake School)
Carly Klingensmith (So., New York, N.Y. / Nightingale Bamford School)
Alison Phillips (So., Vernon Hills, Ill. / Adlai E. Stevenson)
Meredith Wisniewski (Jr., Park Ridge, Ill. / Maine South)