Eagles Extend Streak to 14 Years With Departmental GPA of Over 3.0
Eastern’s 302 student-athletes collectively had a 3.33 grade point average in spring quarter of 2021
A streak that has now reached 42 consecutive quarters, Eastern Washington University student-athletes recently concluded the spring quarter with a collective 3.33 grade point average, giving the 302 Eagles a 14-year streak of combining for a 3.0 average.
Concluding a year of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic, 11 of EWU's 12 programs had at least a 3.23 GPA in the spring quarter, including five with at least a 3.55. Women's golf and cross country had the top GPAs at 3.86 and 3.79, respectively. The men's sports were led by tennis at 3.58.
Eastern's 302 student-athletes included 42 posting a perfect 4.0 GPA (14 percent). An additional 124 had from between a 3.5 and 3.99 GPA, and 59 had between a 3.0 and 3.49. That's 55 percent having at least a 3.5 GPA (166 total) and 75 percent of all student-athletes achieving at least a 3.0 (225 total).
"The Streak" dates back to the 2007 fall quarter. Eastern's student-athletes had an all-time best 3.48 quarterly GPA in fall quarter of 2018.
The accumulative GPA for all Eastern student-athletes is currently 3.43, topped by golf for women's sports (3.89) and tennis for men's programs (3.50).
Academic Performance Spring Quarter 2021
Women's Golf – 3.86 (3.89 accumulative)
Women's Cross Country – 3.79 (3.57)
Women's Soccer – 3.59 (3.67)
Women's Volleyball – 3.55 (3.55)
Women's Track & Field – 3.43 (3.52)
Women's Tennis – 3.40 (3.62)
Women's Basketball – 3.14 (3.46)
Men's Tennis – 3.58 (3.50 accumulative)
Men's Track & Field – 3.33 (3.43)
Men's Basketball – 3.28 (3.41)
Men's Cross Country – 3.25 (3.38)
Football – 3.23 (3.12)
Totals (302 student-athletes) – 3.33 (3.43 accumulative)
Highlights From the 2020-21 School Year . . .
116 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team . . . CLICK HERE for story and list
86 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team . . . CLICK HERE for story and list
90 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team . . . CLICK HERE for story and list
= A TOTAL OF 292 were named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Teams in 2020-2!
Note: There were no minimum competition requirements in 2020-21, as adjustments were made to a standard model that included a minimum of playing time for the student-athlete, as well as the academic requirement. The change was made due to the unique nature of the 2020-21 athletic calendar and the challenges facing campuses both in the classroom and on the playing surface.
National, Regional and Institutional Individual Honors in 2020-21
Jack Sendelbach - Football – NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Director's Association (FCS ADA) Academic All-Star
Jack Sendelbach - Football – National Football Foundation & Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society
Conner Crist - Football – National Football Foundation & Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society
Ty Graham - Football – National Football Foundation & Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society
Jusstis Warren - Football – National Football Foundation & Hall of Fame Hampshire Honor Society
Austin Fadal -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Tanner Groves -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Michael Meadows -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Jack Perry -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Casson Rouse -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Jordan Veening -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Emmanuella Engle - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Morgan Fossen - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Vernice Keyes - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Katrina Terry - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Parker Bowden - Men’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Justin Roosma - Men’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Jeremy Mueller - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Martin Bats - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Wout Doumen - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Manuel Balce - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Erik Grimes - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Bruno Ortega - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Ryan Isgett - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Erik Sarlvik- Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Yasmin Mansouri - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Louise Waite - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Rylee Braeden - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Scout Mathews - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Renata Gabuzyan - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Jennifer Kida - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Alexa Clark - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Jaelin Ishikawa - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Morgan Baum - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Stephanie Chelack - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Carisa Padilla - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
ShaRae Niu -
Volleyball - EWU Student of the Year (awarded May 26 at the 2021 Student Leadership Excellence Awards)
Nicholas Blair -
Football - EWU Outstanding Graduate in Mechanical Engineering
Other Team Honors
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award -- 9th-straight year
Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award -- 4th time in the last 6 years
Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award -- 5th-straight year and 7th overall
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award -- ninth-straight year and 19th overall
Women's Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Women) -- 14-straight years
Track and Field Standouts Parker Bowden and Morgan Fossen are EWU's Recipients of the BSC Scholar-Athlete Award
After representing Eastern Washington University on national stages while excelling in the classroom, the track and field duo of
Parker Bowden and
Morgan Fossen are EWU's recipients of the Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2020-21 school year, as announced by the league office on Thursday (July 15).
Bowden, who hails from Spokane, Wash., where he attended Central Valley High School prior to two years at Spokane Falls Community College, graduated with his Master's degree in Business Administration with a 3.94 grade point average. Fossen is a Medford, Ore., native and spent two years at Lane Community College after graduating from North Medford High School, earned her degree in Communicative Sciences & Disorders while boasting a 3.85 GPA.
The Big Sky Scholar-Athlete Award honors the "best of the best" of the conference's more than 3,500 student-athletes. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the league are recognized for their athletic and academic achievements.
To qualify for this award, the student-athlete must have exhausted his or her intercollegiate athletic eligibility and/or be a member of the graduating class, earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, been a participant in a Conference-sponsored sport, completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution, and have been a letter winner.
Bowden won EWU's first-ever Big Sky title in the high hurdles with a 13.58 time on May 15 in Ogden, Utah., to earn the meet's male Top Performer honor and advance to the NCAA West Preliminary Round. His effort broke the meet record of 13.68, and was just .16 from the Big Sky all-time mark of 13.42. Coming into the season, his personal-best was 14.25.
Although his bid for the NCAA Championships came up short, his time was fast enough to receive an invitation to the United States Olympic Team Trials.
Bowden also owns the 60-meter hurdle school-record with a time of 7.94. He also earned All-Big Sky honors indoors in the 60-meter hurdles in 2020 (3
rd, 7.94) and in 2018 (2
nd, 8.00).
Fossen represented Eastern Washington at the NCAA Outdoor Championships this season in the pole vault. In the event at historic Hayward Field, she cleared 13-9 ¼, a new personal best that is second all-time in the EWU record books. The mark helped her finish 10th overall and earn second team All-America honors, becoming just the third female in NCAA Division I at Eastern Washington to earn All-American honors.
Fossen cleared 12-9 at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships to place second overall. Her previous personal best of 13-8 ½ that she cleared earlier in the season at Whitworth, helped her advance to the NCAA West Preliminary Round. At the regional meet, she vaulted 13-8 ¼ to punch her ticket to the NCAA Championships in Eugene,
Ore.
In 2017, Bowden won the Northwest Athletic Conference Championship (NWAC) in the 100-meter hurdles and Fossen brought home the pole vault title that same year at the NWAC Championships as well.
Academically, both Bowden and Fossen have been named to the Big Sky All-Academic teams in both the winter and spring multiple times in their careers.
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RECIPIENTS OF THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD
| Year |
Female Athlete, Sport |
Male Athlete, Sport |
| 2020-21 |
Morgan Fossen, Track & Field |
Parker Bowden, Track & Field |
| 2019-20 |
Madison Doepker, Track & Field |
Mason Peatling, Basketball |
| 2018-19 |
Violet Kapri-Morrow, Basketball |
Roldan Alcobendas, Football |
| 2017-18 |
Chloe Williams, Soccer |
Bogdan Bliznyuk Basketball |
| 2016-17 |
Sarah Reiter, Cross Country/Track & Field |
Cooper Kupp, Football |
| 2015-16 |
Hayley Hodgins, Basketball |
Venky Jois, Basketball |
| 2014-15 |
Melissa Williams, Basketball |
Jordan Arakawa, Track & Field |
| 2013-14 |
Ashley Wright, Volleyball |
Ashton Miller, Football |
| 2012-13 |
Cora Kellerman, Volleyball/Track & Field |
Jeff Minnerly, Football |
| 2011-12 |
Shene Davis, Track & Field |
Bowe Ebding, Track & Field/Cross Country |
| 2010-11 |
Julie Piper, Basketball |
Matt Martin, Football |
| 2009-10 |
Christy Borders, Track & Field |
Jacob Kragt, Football |
| 2008-09 |
Bonnie Berscheid, Track & Field |
Marcus Walker, Football |
| 2007-08 |
Camille Moseley, Track & Field/Cross Country |
Tom McAndrews, Football |
| 2006-07 |
Joanna Chadd, Basketball |
David Paul, Track & Field |
| 2005-06 |
Beth Russell, Soccer |
Joey Cwik, Football |
| 2004-05 |
Keva Sonderen, Volleyball |
Ty Weingard, Track & Field |
| 2003-04 |
Kathleen Nygaard, Basketball |
Kyler Randall, Football |
| 2002-03 |
Christie Kight, Track & Field |
Kurt Kraemer, Track & Field |
| 2001-02 |
Robyn Felder, Volleyball |
Mike Oien, Track & Field |
| 2000-01 |
Angie Hall, Volleyball |
Lance Ballew, Football |
| 1999-00 |
Kim Maxwell, Volleyball |
Ryan Hansen, Basketball |
| 1998-99 |
Kim Exner, Volleyball |
Mike MacKenzie, Football |
| 1997-98 |
Lora Botha, Volleyball |
Jeff Ogden, Football |
| 1996-97 |
Jaime Dotson, Volleyball |
Jason Baerlocher, Track & Field |
| 1995-96 |
Resa Watterson, Basketball |
Jesse Hardt, Football |
| 1994-95 |
Lori Napier, Basketball |
Noah Chambreau, Track & Field |
| 1993-94 |
Andrea Pochman, Volleyball |
Tony Brooks, Football |
| 1992-93 |
Angela Grant, Volleyball |
Trevor Westlund, Football |
| 1991-92 |
Kari McKay, Track & Field/Cross Country |
Kurt Schulz, Football |
| 1990-91 |
Nancy Kuiper, Track & Field |
John Garrison, Basketball |
| 1989-90 |
Suzanne Vick, Volleyball |
Jack Folger, Track & Field/Cross Country |
| 1988-89 |
Lorna Barr, Volleyball |
Jeff Mickel, Football |
| 1987-88 |
Sonya Gaubinger, Basketball |
Hogan Wrixon, Track & Field |
Highlights From the 2019-20 School Year . . .
70 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
73 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
63 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
= A TOTAL OF 206 were named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Teams in 2019-20!
National or Regional Individual Honors in 2019-20
Mason Peatling - Men's Basketball – College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America (first team) . . . . . . CLICK HERE for more information on this prestigious honor.
Spencer Blackburn - Football – 2019 National Football Foundation (NFF) National Scholar-Athlete Class (one of 12 finalists nationally for the 2019 William V. Campbell Trophy® Presented by Mazda, the NFF & College Hall of Fame) . . . CLICK HERE for more information on this prestigious honor.
Other Honors . . .
Spencer Blackburn - Football – College Sports Information Directors of America (
CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII; also FCS ADA All-Star
Dehonta Hayes - Football – College Sports Information Directors of America (
CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII; also FCS ADA All-Star
Mason Peatling - Men's Basketball – College Sports Information Directors of America (
CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII.
Kim Aiken Jr. -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Tanner Groves -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Mason Peatling -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Jack Perry -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Samantha Raines - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Madalyn Ardueser - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Morgan Baum - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Alexa Clark - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Jaelin Ishikawa - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
Megan Ohland - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (
WGCA) All-American Scholar
NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards
(Multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their respective sports by the NCAA)
Women’s Tennis - 3rd-straight year and 6th overall - had perfect score of 1,000
Women’s Soccer - Honored for first time - had perfect score of 1,000
Men’s Cross Country - Honored for 9th time overall - had perfect score of 1,000
Other Team Honors
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award -- eighth-straight year and 17th overall
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award -- 8th-straight year
Women's Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Women) -- 13-straight years
Women's Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA All-Scholar Team) - Honored for first time
Women's Tennis - Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award - 4th-straight year and 6th overall
Women's Golf -- 15th-highest grade point average in all of NCAA Division I (3.832)
2019-20 EWU SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE MONTH
February – Jenna Dick (women’s basketball),
Kim Aiken Jr. (men’s basketball)
January – Leya DePriest (women’s basketball),
Jacob Davison (men’s basketball)
December – Bella Cravens (women’s basketball),
Mason Peatling (men’s basketball)
November – Catelyn Linke (soccer),
Jim Townsend (football)
October – Kelsee Winston (soccer),
Spencer Blackburn (football)
September – Madalyn Ardueser (golf),
Jayson Williams (football)
EWU’s Recipients of the BSC Scholar-Athlete Award are Madison Doepker and Mason Peatling
With both earning a trio of All-Big Sky Conference honors in their careers and having near 4.0 grade point averages, Eastern Washington University's recipients of the Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2019-20 school year were announced by the league office Tuesday (June 30).
Track and field standout
Madison Doepker was honored on the women's side, and received her degree in professional accounting at EWU. The male recipient was
Mason Peatling, who earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration. Both own 3.97 grade point averages, with Doepker graduating from Walla Walla (Wash.) High School in 2015 and Peatling coming to EWU from Melbourne, Australia, and Beaconhills College HS.
The Big Sky Scholar-Athlete Award honors the "best of the best" of the conference's more than 3,500 student-athletes. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the league are recognized for their athletic and academic achievements.
To qualify for the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale), be a member of the graduating class and/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution and be a letter winner.
Doepker earned a trio of All-Big Sky honors as a thrower from 2015-20 for the track and field team. She was the champion in the javelin at the 2019 Big Sky Outdoor Championships, and was also third in the hammer in that same meet. A year earlier, she finished third in the javelin.
Her career best in the
javelin of 154-8 ranks ninth on EWU's all-time outdoor bests list. She also ranks fourth in the hammer with a best of 194-6, and indoors had a best of 59-4 3/4 in the weight throw to rank seventh all-time at EWU.
Besides her success on the track, she was
named to the Big Sky All-Academic team all four years indoors, as well as all four years outdoors.
Peatling won the league's MVP award in the 2019-20 season after averaging a double-double in 20 league outings with averages of 18.5 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. He helped lead the Eagles to the outright Big Sky Conference title and their second-highest win total in 37 years as a NCAA Division I member with 23 victories. The school's 16 league triumphs were the most in their 33 years as a member of the Big Sky Conference.
Peatling capped his career by winning All-District 6 honors by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). He was a first team All-Big Sky selection in 2019-20, and earned second team honors in 2018-19 when he also was picked for the Big Sky's All-Tournament team. He was honorable mention All-Big Sky as a sophomore in 2017-18.
He was a first team Academic All-America selection in the 2019-20 season, and also earned Big Sky All-Academic honors all four seasons at EWU. He finished his career with 118 games played, 1,250 points, 725 rebounds, 112 blocked shots and a .555 field goal shooting percentage – all marks which rank in the top 12 in EWU history.
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY RECIPIENTS OF THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD
Seven Eastern Washington University athletic programs have been recognized by the NCAA for their Academic Progress Rate, which is the annual scorecard of academic achievement calculated for all NCAA Division I sports teams.
Eastern’s women’s tennis, women’s soccer and men’s cross country programs were honored with NCAA Public Recognition Awards for their multi-year APR scores. All three of those programs had perfect 1,000 scores last year, and were joined by EWU men’s basketball, men’s track and field, women’s cross country and women’s golf with perfect scores in the 2018-19 school year.
The women’s tennis team is coached by
Dustin Hinson, and was also honored in 2019 and 2018. This is the sixth time overall women’s tennis has been honored since the awards were instituted in the 2004-05 academic year, all with perfect scores.
Women’s soccer, coached by
Chad Bodnar, was honored for the first time. This is the first time in seven years the men’s cross country team has been honored, and that followed an eight-year streak. The squad is coached by
Sam Read.
In previous years, women’s basketball (including a seven-year streak and seven years total), men’s indoor track and field (once) and women’s cross country (three times) all earned Public Recognition Awards.
This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports.
Each year, the NCAA honors selected NCAA Division I sports teams by publicly recognizing their latest multiyear NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate. This announcement is part of the overall Division I academic reform effort and is intended to highlight teams that demonstrate a commitment to academic progress and retention of student-athletes by achieving the top APRs within their respective sports. Specifically, these teams posted multiyear APRs in the top 10 percent of all squads in each sport.
The APR provides a real-time look at a team’s academic success each semester by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete on scholarship. The APR accounts for eligibility, retention and graduation and provides a measure of each team’s academic performance.
Highlights From the 2018-19 School Year . . .
A RECORD 79 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
A RECORD 78 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
A RECORD 73 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
= A RECORD TOTAL OF 230 were named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Teams in 2018-19!
National or Regional Individual Honors in 2018-19
Spencer Blackburn - Football – College Sports Information Directors of America (
CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII
Sam McPherson - Football – College Sports Information Directors of America (
CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII
Steven Beo -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Ty Gibson -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Jesse Hunt -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Tyler Kidd -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Mason Peatling -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Joshua Thomas -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Luka Vulikic -
Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (
NABC) Honors Court
Madison Doepker - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Elizabeth Prouty - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Samantha Raines - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Isaac Barville - Men’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Jeremy Field - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Mikayel Khachatryan - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Wout Doumen - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Jan Lajos - Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Moriah Austin - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Marta Heinen - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Louise Waite - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Yasmin Mansouri - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Madeline Lamoreaux - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards
(Multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their respective sports by the NCAA)
Women’s Basketball - 7th-straight year - had perfect score of 1,000
Women’s Tennis - 2nd-straight year and 5th overall - had perfect score of 1,000
Other Team Honors
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award -- seventh-straight year and 16th overall
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award -- 7th-straight year
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court -- 7 selections (listed above) were most in NCAA Division I
Women's Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Women) -- 12-straight years
Men's Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Men) -- 6th time
Women's Track and Field -- 9th-highest grade point average in all of NCAA Division I (3.62)
Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award --
3rd-straight year and 5th overall
Men's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award --
3rd time in the last 4 years
For Third Time in Four Years, Eastern is the Big Sky Conference Presidents' Cup Winner
For the third time in four seasons, Eastern Washington University won the Big Sky Conference Presidents' Cup for the 2017-18 school year, the league office announced July 11, 2018.
Based on a point system that takes into account both academic and athletic success, Eastern finished ahead of runner-up Northern Colorado and third-place Weber State. This is the fourth time in the last nine years Eastern has won the Presidents' Cup, and only Weber State has won the award four times since it was first awarded in 2002-03. Besides winning in 2015-16 and 2014-15, the Eagles were also victorious in the 2009-10 school year.
Eastern is excited to have it back in Cheney and in the hands of EWU President Dr. Mary Cullinan, who has been with the school since 2014 and has been a part of EWU's last three Presidents' Cup awards.
"We are thrilled to win the Presidents' Cup for the third time in four years," said Eastern Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey. "This honor reinforces our focus of combining academic success with athletic accomplishments. Dr. Cullinan, our administration, staff, coaches and student-athletes deserve so much credit, and I applaud them for their hard work on behalf of EWU."
The Presidents' Cup is unique in collegiate athletics in that it reinforces the Big Sky's dedication to the academic side of the student-athlete experience. Overall athletic success is combined with team grade point averages, Academic Progress Rates (APR) and athletic points based on conference finish. The Eagles finished with 89 athletic points, including 13 from the school's Big Sky soccer championship. EWU also had top-four finishes from football, men's basketball, women's basketball, women's tennis, women's indoor track and field and men's outdoor track and field.
However, Eastern's performance in the classroom helped secure the Presidents' Cup victory. The Eagles led all institutions in grade point average with a school GPA of 3.42. Every Eagle squad recorded a 3.0 or higher – the only Big Sky school to do so. Eastern Washington also had six teams register a GPA of 3.5 or higher, while women's cross country recorded the highest mark of 3.71. Eastern Washington men's basketball had the highest GPA among all men's sports teams with a 3.55.
In addition, the Eagles had the second-best Academic Progress Rate in the conference, posting a 985 for the 2016-17 academic year. For the second straight year, the league saw 113 teams record a GPA of 3.0 or more. All 11 Big Sky full members recorded a GPA of at least 3.0, continuing the Big Sky's tradition of academic excellence.
Presidents' Cup Winners
2018-19 - Weber State
2017-18 - Eastern Washington
2016-17 - North Dakota
2015-16 - Eastern Washington
2014-15 - Eastern Washington
2013-14 - Northern Arizona
2012-13 - Northern Arizona
2011-12 - Montana State
2010-11 - Montana
2009-10 - Eastern Washington
2008-09 - Weber State
2007-08 - Weber State
2006-07 - Montana
2005-06 - Northern Arizona
2004-05 - Montana State
2003-04 - Weber State
2002-03 - Weber State
Highlights from the 2017-18 School Year . . .
68 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
64 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
69 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
= an EWU RECORD TOTAL of 201 in the 2017-18 school year (previous record was 180 in 2016-17)
Other National or Regional Individual Honors
Spencer Blackburn - Football – NCAA FCS Athletic Directors Academic All-Star Team
Sam McPherson - Football – Nominee for American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Allstate Insurance AFCA Good Works Team
®.
Chloe Williams - Soccer -- Senior Class Award Candidate
Delaney Hodgins - Women's Basketball -- Senior Class Award Finalist
Delaney Hodgins - Women's Basketball -- College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America (third team)
Delaney Hodgins - Women's Basketball -- College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District VIII
Cody Benzel - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Bogdan Bliznyuk - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Grant Gibb - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Ty Gibson - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Benas Griciunas - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Jesse Hunt - Men's Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court
Erin Clark - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic
Madison Doepker - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Paula Gil-Echevarria - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Kari Hamilton - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Rylee Braeden - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Stephanie Broussard - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Zoey Nelson - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Janaya Smith - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Valentina Sottile - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Rachel Swindell - Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete Award
Madalyn Adueser - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar
Alexa Clark - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar
Kirsten Ishikawa - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar
Kimberlie Miyamoto - Golf -- Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar
NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards
(Multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their respective sports by the NCAA)
Women’s Basketball - sixth-straight year
Women’s Tennis
Other Team Honors
Women's Cross Country -- U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association
(USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team Honors
-- third-straight year
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award -- sixth-straight year and 15th overall
Women's Basketball -- Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Honor Roll -- 17th time all-time; 16 of 18 years under Wendy Schuller
Women's Basketball -- 18th-highest grade point average in all of NCAA Division I (3.50)
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award -- 6th-straight year
Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Women) -- 11-straight years
Track and Field -- 58th-highest grade point average in all of NCAA Division I (3.47)
Women's Tennis -- Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) All-Academic Team Award --
second-straight year
2017-18 EWU SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE MONTH
September –
Chloe Williams (soccer),
Gage Gubrud (football)
October –
Emily Busselman (soccer),
Sam McPherson (football)
November –
M’Kenna Hayes (soccer),
Nic Sblendorio (football)
December –
Delaney Hodgins (basketball),
Bogdan Bliznyuk (basketball)
January –
Violet Kapri Morrow (basketball),
Cody Benzel (basketball)
February –
Rebecca Tarbert (track & field),
Scott Paz (tennis)
March –
Elizabeth Prouty (track & field),
Parker Bowden (track & field)
April –
Madison Doepker (track & field),
Logan Stahl (track & field)
May –
Paula Gil-Echevarria (track & field),
Jeremy VanAssche (track & field)
MVPs and All-Time Scoring Leaders Bogdan Bliznyuk and Chloe Williams Win Scholar-Athlete Awards from the BSC
A pair of league MVPs and all-time scoring leaders – basketball player
Bogdan Bliznyuk and soccer standout
Chloe Williams -- have been selected as Eastern Washington University's recipients of the Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2017-18 school year.
Bliznyuk was the Big Sky MVP in the 2017-18 season, while Williams has won the last three awards during her sophomore (2015), junior (2016) and senior (2017) soccer seasons. A 2014 graduate of Lewis & Clark High School, Williams graduated from EWU with a 3.65 grade point average and a degree in exercise science.
Bliznyuk is from Lutsk, Ukraine, and graduated in 2014 from Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, Wash. Now playing for the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA Summer League, he graduated with a degree in management and had a 3.23 GPA.
"The athletic and academic accomplishments by both Bogdan and Chloe were sensational," said new Eastern Director of Athletics
Lynn Hickey. "While I never had the opportunity to see Chloe play, I was able to watch Bogdan and get to know them both as student-athletes. They represent this university so well in so many ways, and to win four Big Sky MVP awards between them and set all-time scoring marks in the league are truly eye-opening accomplishments. We couldn't be prouder."
The Big Sky Scholar-Athlete Award honors the "best of the best" of the conference's more than 3,500 student-athletes. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the league are recognized for their athletic and academic achievements.
To qualify for the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale), be a member of the graduating class and/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution and be a letter winner.
Both Williams and Bliznyuk were a perfect 4-for-4 in earning Big Sky Conference All-Academic honors during their four seasons as Eagle student-athletes.
Williams capped her illustrious career by earning second team honors on the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Women's All-West Region Team. She became the first-ever player to win the Big Sky Offensive MVP three years in a row, and the first EWU student-athlete to be named to the All-Big Sky first team all four years -- just the third to accomplish the feat in league history.
During the 2017 campaign, she led the Big Sky and the Eagles with 27 points, scoring a conference-leading 12 goals and adding three assists. She notched three game-winning goals and took 101 shots, 43 of which were on frame. In addition, Williams scored the lone goal for the Eagles in the sixth minute of the NCAA Tournament at No. 3 USC where EWU fell in double overtime.
Williams wrapped up her storied career with 109 points, 44 goals, and 347 shots which are all Big Sky Conference and Eastern Washington records. She also had 21 career assists which places her in a tie for fifth all-time in the Big Sky record books and first in EWU history.
Williams led Eastern to a 16-6-1 overall record in 2017, which is a program high. The Eagles won the Big Sky Conference regular season title for the first time since 2004, and the Eagles earned back-to-back tournament championships to earn their second-consecutive NCAA Tournament berth.
Bliznyuk is the Big Sky Conference all-time leading scorer in men's basketball and agreed to terms in June with the Los Angeles Clippers. He will represent the team in the NBA's Summer League in Las Vegas from July 6-13, with all five of their games broadcast on either ESPN or NBATV.
An All-American who scored 2,169 points in his career, Bliznyuk scored 11 points in the Reese's College All-Star Game on March 30, 2018. He was one of just 20 players in the nation invited to play in the prestigious game at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas – site of the NCAA Division I "Final Four." He then averaged 15.3 points and made half his shots in three games at the prestigious Portsmouth Invitational Basketball Tournament on April 12-14.
Bliznyuk became the third Eagle in the last four years to earn both honorable mention Associated Press All-America honors and first team Lou Henson mid-major All-America accolades. He broke the previous Big Sky Conference record of 2,102 points and smashed the previous EWU record of 1,803.
In the final game of his career against Utah Valley in the College Basketball Invitational on March 13, Bliznyuk tied Eastern's single season scoring record with 50 seconds left, then broke it with a 3-pointer on the last shot of his illustrious career with 20 ticks remaining. He finished with 741 points as a senior to rank sixth in league history and break the previous school record of 738 set three years ago by Tyler Harvey.
In setting a total of 16 school records, Bliznyuk scored 27 points in the 138th and final game of his career -- the 44th time he scored at least 20 and his 100th double-digit performance. He also closed his career with a variety of Big Sky Conference Tournament marks and a NCAA Division I single season free throw record with 77-straight makes.
78 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
51 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
51 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
= A RECORD TOTAL OF 180 were named to Big Sky Conference All-Academic Teams in 2020-21!
NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards
(Multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their respective sports by the NCAA)
Women’s Basketball - fifth-straight year
Other Team Honors
Cross Country -- NCAA DI All-Academic Team (Men and Women)
Men’s Basketball -- National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award (fifth-straight year)
- A trio of Eastern Washington University men's basketball players were honored on the 2016-17 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court. Senior forward Bogdan Bliznyuk was selected to the team, as well as former Eagles Julian Harrell and Mario Soto. Recipients of the award must be a varsity player and academically a junior or senior while earning a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher.
Women's Basketball -- 12th-highest grade point average in all of NCAA Division I.
Track and Field -- USTFCCCA All-Academic Team (Men and Women)
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award (fifth-straight year and 14th overall)
Cooper Kupp Academic Accolades
An economics graduate with a 3.63 grade point average, Cooper Kupp earned Academic All-America honors for the third-straight season in 2016, earning first team honors as both a junior and senior. The 24-player squad includes teams from both the Football Championship Subdivision and Football Bowl Subdivision levels. Kupp, who was drafted by Los Angeles in the third round of the 2017 NFL Draft, earned second team Academic All-America honors as a sophomore. Eastern football players have now earned 13 CoSIDA Academic All-America honors since 1989, including seven first-team selections. Nine different players have garnered those honors, including the first three-time winner in Kupp (2014, 2015 and 2016), and repeat performers Steve Mattson (1996 and 1997) and Kyler Randall (2002 and 2003). Kupp was also recognized for the second-straight season on the 19th Annual Academic All-Star Team as selected by the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Athletic Directors Association. He was one of 44 winners announced among a group of 126 total nominees. A total of 20 awards have now been won by Eagles on the Academic All-Star team since the award began in 1998.
Sarah Reiter and Cooper Kupp Win Scholar-Athlete Awards from the Big Sky Conference
Record-breaking distance runner Sarah Reiter and four-time football All-American Cooper Kupp were selected as Eastern Washington University's recipients of the Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Award for the 2016-17 school year. Reiter is from Renton, Wash., and is a 2012 graduate of Lindbergh High School and Kupp graduated in 2012 from Davis High School in Yakima, Wash.
The Scholar-Athlete Award honors the "best of the best" of the conference's more than 3,500 student-athletes. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the league are recognized for their athletic and academic achievements.
To qualify for the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale), be a member of the graduating class and/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution and be a letter winner.
A participant in the 2015 and 2016 NCAA Cross Country Championships, Reiter has a 3.92 grade point average as a business administration major. Kupp has a 3.63 GPA in economics. Reiter was selected to the Big Sky Conference All-Academic team 10 times in her career (3 XC, 3 indoor, 4 outdoor), and Kupp was chosen all four years he was an Eagle.
In track and field, Reiter won All-Big Sky Conference honors four times by finishing in the top three in individual events. She also holds Eastern records in the 5,000 (16:21.50) outdoors, as well as the 3,000 (9:39.19) and 5,000 (17:06.00) indoors. She came less than a second from McKay's record in the 10,000 meters (33:46.71, the record is 33:46.1).
Kupp is a new member of the Los Angeles Rams after being taken in the third round of the National Football League Draft as the 69th pick overall. He became the second-highest choice in school history after having played in the Senior Bowl and being selected for the NFL Combine.
He earned 14 different national player of the year accolades in his career and was a three-time Academic All-America selection. Twice he was selected as the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Player of the Year by the FCS Athletic Director's Association, and won the 2015 Walter Payton Award.
He established 15 FCS, 11 Big Sky and 29 EWU records in his illustrious 52-game Eastern career (all as a starter), and added a collegiate all-division mark with 6,464 receiving yards. His 6,464 yards, 428 receptions, 73 touchdown catches, 124.3 average yards per game and 1.40 average TDs per game were all FCS records. Kupp averaged a TD reception for every 5.9 catches in his career. He scored at least once in 43 of 52 games he played, and caught at least two passes in all 52 games he played.
Kupp led EWU to 41 victories overall in four seasons, including a 28-4 record in the Big Sky Conference. Eastern won two outright Big Sky Conference championships, a co-title his senior season, had two unbeaten league seasons and helped EWU advance to the NCAA Football Championship Playoff berths as a freshman, sophomore and senior. Twice Eastern advanced to the semifinals and once to the quarterfinal round.
Highlights from the 2015-16 School Year . . .
67 student-athletes were named to the Fall Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
48 were named to the Winter Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
54 were named to the Spring Big Sky Conference All-Academic Team
NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards
(Multi-year APRs in the top 10 percent of their respective sports by the NCAA)
Women’s Golf - fifth-straight year
Women’s Basketball - fourth-straight year
Women’s Cross Country - fourth-straight year
Other Team Honors
Women’s Basketball - Ranked fourth nationally with a 3.637 GPA on Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll (15th year overall)
Men’s Basketball - National Association of Basketball Coaches Team Academic Excellence Award (fourth-straight year)
Women’s Volleyball – American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award (fourth-straight year and 13th overall)
Men’s Tennis - First-ever ITA Academic Team honors
Other National or Regional Individual Honors
Cooper Kupp - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-America First Team
Cooper Kupp - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-District VIII
Todd Raynes - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-District VIII
Jake Withnell - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-District VIII
Jake Gall - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-District VIII
Andre Lino - Football – College Sports Information Directors Academic All-District VIII
Cooper Kupp - Football – NCAA FCS Athletic Directors Academic All-Star Team
Jake Withnell - Football – NCAA FCS Athletic Directors Academic All-Star Team
Jake Withnell - Football – NCAA FCS Athletic Directors post-graduate scholarship finalist
Kirsten Ishikawa - Women’s Golf – All-American Scholar honors from the Women’s Collegiate Golf Coaches Association
Mercedes Khumnark - Women’s Golf – All-American Scholar honors from the Women’s Collegiate Golf Coaches Association
Kimberlie Miyamoto - Women’s Golf – All-American Scholar honors from the Women’s Collegiate Golf Coaches Association
Robert Dula - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Eduardo Bringold - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Rendell Burkhart - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Luke Ness - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Vuk Vuckovic - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Victor Pereira - Men’s Tennis – Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete
Katie Mahoney - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Kaytlyn Coleman - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Sarah Reiter - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Paula Gil-Echevarria - Women’s Track & Field – U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic
Eastern is the Big Sky Conference President’s Cup Winner for Second-Straight Year in 2015-16
For the second-straight time, Eastern Washington University has again won the Big Sky Conference Presidents' Cup for the 2015-16 school year, the league office announced July 18, 2016. The Eagles were also victorious in the 2014-15 and 2009-10 school years.
The Presidents' Cup is unique in collegiate athletics in that it reinforces the Big Sky's dedication to the academic side of the student-athlete experience. Overall athletic success is combined with team grade point averages, Academic Progress Rates (APR) and All-Conference performers with grade point averages of at least 3.0.
Helping propel Eastern to the top of the Presidents' Cup standings was a league-leading 35 All-Conference athletes finishing with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. EWU finished fourth in the athletic portion, were third in the APR standings at 979.7 and tied for fourth with an average GPA of 3.31. Eastern Washington's women's basketball, men's tennis and women's soccer each had an average GPA of 3.49 or better, with soccer leading the way at 3.7. EWU had 13 of 14 programs with a 3.0 or higher.
The Eagles finished with 105.83 athletic points after women's basketball and women's cross country each provided second-place finishes. EWU also had top-four finishes from soccer, men's cross country, football and both indoor and outdoor women's track and field.
Basketball Players Hayley Hodgins & Venky Jois Win Scholar-Athlete Awards from Big Sky in 2015-16
Both Eastern Washington basketball programs were represented on the 2015-16 Big Sky Conference Scholar-Athlete Awards list, as men's senior Venky Jois and women's senior Hayley Hodgins received one of the most prestigious honors in the league.
The pair of basketball standouts put a cap on their illustrious, record-setting careers in the 2015-16 season. Both Jois and Hodgins broke their program's all-time scoring record during their four-year careers with Eastern.
The Scholar-Athlete Award honors the "best of the best" of the conference's more than 3,500 student-athletes. One senior male and one senior female from each school in the league are recognized for their athletic and academic achievements. To qualify for the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale), be a member of the graduating class and/or have completed their last year of intercollegiate athletic eligibility, have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the institution and be a letter winner.
Jois, a pre-med major, posted a cumulative grade point average of 3.45. The Melbourne, Australia native scored a total of 1,803 points in his career. He is just the third player in Big Sky history to have more than 1,600 points and 900 rebounds, and broke 10 Eastern men's basketball records in his time with the Eagles. He was also a four-time member of the Big Sky All-Academic squad, and earned CoSIDA Academic All-District 8 accolades. On the court, Jois was a four-time All-Big Sky Conference team selection, and twice earned NABC All-District 6 honors. He is now pursuing professional opportunities, which included an invitation to a tryout with the Sacramento Kings.
For Hodgins, she graduated from EWU in June 2014 with a health services administration degree, posting a cumulative GPA of 3.74. The Pasco, Wash., native tallied a record-setting 1,865 points in her career, which ranks sixth all-time in Big Sky Conference history. She also set the Eastern women's basketball record for most three-pointers (243) in a career, and played in a program-best 126 games. She was a four-time Big Sky All-Academic team selection, and earned a unanimous All-Big Sky first team selection in 2015-16 after being named to the first and second teams the past two seasons. Hodgins was also named to the College Sports Madness All-Mid Major fourth team and was a Big Sky All-Tournament selection. She is currently pursuing her master's degree in public health at Eastern.
