OGDEN, Utah (June 26, 2019) – In an announcement by the league office on Wednesday, the Northern Arizona golf, men's and women's outdoor track & field and men's and women's tennis teams combined to have 36 student-athletes honored as Big Sky Spring All-Academic award recipients.
To be eligible for the Big Sky All-Academic honors, a student-athlete must have met and/or exceeded the following minimum requirements: 1) Participated in at least half of the team's competitions; 2) Achieved a 3.2 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at the conclusion of the most recently completed term; 3) Completed at least one academic term at his/her current Big Sky institution.
The NAU women's outdoor track & field team paced the department with 14 All-Academic honorees in the spring, while their men's counterparts recorded 12 awards. The Big Sky Champion women's tennis team followed with five awardees and the golf team had four. The men's tennis team, also Big Sky Champions, had one student-athlete receive the award.
Twenty – over half of NAU's 36 honorees – carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or better at the end of the 2018-19 academic year. Four student-athletes (women's tennis'
Hanneke Lodewijks, men's outdoor track & field's
Theo Quax and women's outdoor track & field's
Emma Sjolund and
Luna Slater) are at a perfect 4.00 GPA.
Lodewijks and men's outdoor track & field's
Geordie Beamish were also honored as Google Cloud Academic All-District 8 First Team selections this spring.
The department's total conference academic award recipients stands at 122 for the recently completed academic year.
Below is the complete list of NAU's Spring 2019 Big Sky All-Academic selections:
Golf
Aleksandra Chekalina – Fr. – Hotel & Restaurant Management
Elle Kocourkova – Fr. – Hotel & Restaurant Management
Sara Padilla – So. – Managemnet
Emma Reyes – Jr. – Finance
Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Geordie Beamish – Sr. – Civil Engineering
Carter Bracken – So. – Mechanical Engineering
Cade Burks – Sr. – Environmental Sciences
Tyler Day – Sr. – Journalism
Blaise Ferro – Jr. – Parks & Recreation Management
Brodey Hasty – Fr. – Astronomy
Kyle Havriliak – Sr. – Criminology & Criminal Justice
Parker Joens – Jr. – Exercise Science
Jacob Kaufman – Jr. – Computer Science
Beau Prince – So. – Physics
Theo Quax – Fr. – Engineering
Ryan Raff – Fr. – Exercise Science
Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Maggie Carruth – Gr. – Educational Leadership
Alexa Dragone – So. – Secondary Education-History
Pipi Eitel – So. – Biology
Jenna Figueroa – So. – Elementary Education
Melanie Loff – Fr. – Hotel & Restaurant Management
Jasmine Malone – Sr. – Strategic Communication
Jenna McCaffrey – So. – Environmental Engineering
Helena McLeod – Jr. – Biomedical Science
Shannon Molvin – Sr. – Environmental Sciences
Sara Murray – Jr. – Health Science-Public Health
Delaney Rasmussen – Jr. – Biomedical Science
Abby Riordan – Fr. – Health Science-Nutrition
Emma Sjolund – So. – Biomedical Science
Luna Slater – Fr. – Science
Men's Tennis
Chris Steele – So. – Business
Women's Tennis
Emilie Haakansson – Fr. – Marketing
Hanneke Lodewijks – Sr. – Exercise Science
Madi Moore – So. – Biology
Adrianna Sosnowska – Fr. – Business Economics
Chiara Tomasetti – Jr. – Business Economics
