MIAC release | Macalester fall sport honorees

The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) announced its 2009-10 Winter / Spring Academic All-Conference honorees today and 23 Macalester winter and spring sport athletes have earned this distinction. The conference recognized 431student-athletes who represented the MIAC's thirteen institutions. These 23 join 25 fall sport athletes to earn Academic All-MIAC status, giving Macalester a total of 48 for the 2009-10 school term.

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, softball, baseball and tennis must compete in 50% of their team's varsity regular season contests. Athletes in swimming & diving must qualify for the finals, while track & field athletes must earn honorable mention conference honors or place in the top three of a relay.

Macalester College Winter / Spring Academic All-MIAC award winners:

Women's Basketball
Ann Baltzer (Sr., Bismarck, N.D.)
Trina PaStarr (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn.)
Eartha Bell (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn.)
Alyssa Lunde (Sr., Rochester, Minn.)

Men's Basketball
Jerry Kraus (Sr., Bucharest, Romania)

Baseball
Garrett Salzman (So., Glendale, Calif.)
Graham Brown (So., Annandale, Minn.)

Softball
Alison Phillips (Sr., Vernon Hills, Ill.)
Chloe Souza (So., Los Angeles, Calif.)
Ali Nystrom (Sr., Minnetonka, Minn.)
Carly Klingensmith (Sr., New York, N.Y.)

Men's Tennis
Evan Elderbrock (So., Madison, Wis.)
Titus Levy (Sr., New York, N.Y.)
Paul Mairet (Jr., Rochester, Minn.)
Justin Margolies (Jr., Madison, Wis.)

Women's Tennis
Louise Dickson (Jr., North Oaks, Minn.)
Amanda Wenzel (Sr., Green Bay, Wis.)

Men's Indoor Track (top 8)
Wade Ekstrom (Sr., La Crescent, Minn.)

Women's Indoor Track (top 8)
Erin Lowrey (Sr., Whitefish Bay, Wis.)

Men's Outdoor Track
Martin Stenman Andersson (Sr., Uppsala, Sweden)

Men's Swimming & Diving
Jeff Yamashita (Jr., Honolulu, Hi.)

Women's Swimming & Diving
Karoline Hart (So., Rexford, N.Y.)
Kiersten Yeazel (Sr., Shorewood, Wis.)