Thirty-Five Lumberjacks Earn Spring Big Sky All-Academic Honors
OGDEN, Utah – Northern Arizona placed 35 student-athletes from the sports of women's golf, men's and women's tennis, and men's and women's outdoor track and field on the Spring Big Sky All-Academic team.
Added to 49 Fall selections and 40 Winter selections, NAU totaled 124 Big Sky All-Academic selections during the 2011-12 academic year and 144 total All-Academic honorees with the addition of 20 swimming & diving student-athletes named as Academic All-Western Athletic Conference (WAC) selections.
To be eligible for 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 women's outdoor track & field team led the way with 17 selections including senior Kortnee Burton, who was named NAU's Co-Female Senior Scholar-Athletes of the Year at the 2012 Golden Eagle awards in April. Senior thrower Pascal Tang, who was named NAU's Big Sky Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the Golden Eagle Male Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year, led 12 selections from the Big Sky Champion men's outdoor track & field team.
Junior Stephanie Kim and freshmen Laura Jabczenski and Melissa Olson represented the NAU women's golf team and were joined by freshmen Hannah Stone and Johanna Vang from women's tennis. Senior Ben Lantz rounded out the group as the lone selection from men's tennis.
NAU Spring Big Sky All-Academic Selections
Women's Golf
Laura Jabczenski, Freshman, 4.00, Undeclared
Stephanie Kim, Junior, 3.77, Photography
Melissa Olson, Freshman, 3.60, Journalism
Men's Tennis
Ben Lantz, Senior, 3.91, Geography
Women's Tennis
Hannah Stone, Freshman, 3.89, Public Relations
Johanna Vang, Freshman, 4.00, Management
Men's Outdoor Track and Field
Miles Di Sabella, Junior, 3.51, Biomedical Science
Arnaud Froidmont, Junior, 4.00, Physics-Applied
Treyson Fullmer, Freshman, 3.77, Business
Andre Gaines, Sophomore, 3.21, Computer Information Systems
Christopher Ganem, Freshman, 3.76, Exercise Science
Bahlbi Gebreyohanns, Sophomore, 3.26, Business Economics
Caleb Hoover, Freshman, 3.91, Exercise Science
Gus Margiotta, Freshman, 3.28, Journalism
Luis Montano, Freshman, 3.87, Mechanical Engineering
Pascal Tang, Senior, 3.63, Marketing
Adam Vess, Senior, 3.50, Educational Leadership-Educational Foundations
John Yatsko, Senior, 3.75, Mathematics
Women's Outdoor Track and Field
Kortnee Burton, Senior, 3.76, Visual Communication
Kenzie Estes, Freshman, 4.00, Marketing
Jennifer Fetaz, Freshman, 3.27, Health Sciences-Physical Education
Shayla Freeman, Freshman, 3.32, Undeclared
Carissa Gwerder, Sophomore, 4.00, Communication Studies
Caroline Hoegardh, Freshman, 3.54, Exercise Science
Kylee Kieser, Freshman, 3.41, Secondary Education-History & Social Studies
Agnes Laurent, Junior, 3.88, Comparative Cultural Studies
Haley Lawrence, Senior, 3.49, Health Sciences-Physical Education
Kerri Lenihan, Freshman, 3.69, Biomedical Science
Lisette Michaels, Junior, 3.82, Interdisciplinary Studies-Speech-Language Sciences and Technology
Shamelle Pless, Freshman, 3.79, Business
Brittany Price, Freshman, 3.68, Undeclared
Sarah Raber, Sophomore, 3.63, Biology
Amanda Stricker, Freshman, 3.90, Anthropology
Lauren Stuart, Sophomore, 3.84, Biology
Jessica Weise, Freshman , 3.48, Undeclared
