WINONA, Minn. — A record 74 Saint Mary's University student-athletes earned Academic All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference recognition for the winter-spring semester.
 
On Wednesday, the MIAC announced its 2022-23 Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference honorees, including 1,334 student-athletes. Combined with the 782 fall-sport athletes who were honored in January, the overall total of Academic All-Conference selections for the 2022-23 academic year sets a new Conference-high of 2,116, surpassing the previous record of 2,080, established last June.
 
The latest Academic All-Conference list spotlights more than 1,300 examples of student-athletes achieving excellence without compromise. This is the second consecutive June in which the MIAC's overall Academic All-Conference list has exceeded 2,000 student-athletes, with nine sports matching or setting single-season records in the process, including women's track & field (200), men's track & field (166), baseball (135), women's swimming & diving (120), men's hockey (116), women's basketball (79), men's tennis (58), women's golf (39), and men's golf (35). Women's hockey (114), softball (96), women's tennis (67), and men's basketball (52) all ended up within single digits of their respective sport's records.
 
In order to qualify for Academic All-MIAC status, student-athletes must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors by academic standards with a minimum cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Students must also complete one full-time academic year at their current institution before becoming eligible for the honor. An athlete must be a member of a MIAC-sponsored varsity sports team, be academically and athletically eligible, have utilized a season of participation per NCAA and MIAC definitions, and have remained on the sports roster through the conclusion of the sports season in order to be eligible for Academic All-Conference honors.
 
The men's hockey team led the way for the Cardinals, landing a single-sport school-record 15 student-athletes on the team, five more than the fastpitch softball team and six up on the baseball team, while women's basketball and women's hockey each boasted eight honorees.
Brady Lindauer (Cary, Ill.), Gabe Potyk (Lake Orion, Mich.), Alex Cannon (South Bend, Ind.), Jackson Nauss (Maple Plain, Minn.), Warner Young (New Berry, Mich.), Nick Kiemel (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Kasyn Kruse (Luverne, Minn.), Noah Kiemel (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Matt Sankner (Pennington, N.J.), Callahan Nauss (Maple Plain, Minn.), A.J. Ruskowski (Traverse City, Mich.), Laudon Poellinger (La Crescent, Minn.), Parker Swanson (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Blake Campbell (Keller, Texas), and Bud Winter (St. Louis, Mo.) made up the men's hockey team's 15 honorees, while Michelle Doering (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Izzy Griffin (West St. Paul, Minn.), Savannah Swanson (Marengo, Ill.), Allison Ciero (Glen Ellyn, Ill.), Michelle Smith (Oak Lawn, Ill.), Riley Hall (Dallas Center, Iowa), Mackenzie Carey (Prescott, Wis.), Emma Kral (Emmetsburg, Iowa), Katelyn Cruze (Litchfield, Minn.), and Abby Nosbisch (Chatfield, Minn.) represented the SMU fastpitch softball team.
Henry Gathje (Chatfield, Minn.), Brandon Merfeld (La Crosse, Wis.), Cameron Weber (Holmen, Wis.), Brinton Anderson (Pulaski Wis.), Derek Sonmore (Blaine, Minn.), Seth Gonring (Madison, Wis.), Mason Palmer (Holmen, Wis.), Timmy Smith (South St. Paul, Minn.), and Mason Coyle made the grade from the baseball team, with Ashley Streveler (Colby, Wis.), Brooklyn Paulson (Holmen, Wis.), Valerie Higgins (Sioux Falls, S.D.), Maggie Newhouse (Owatonna, Minn.), Cruze, Izzy Goettelman (Winona, Minn.), Emma Miller (Eau Claire, Wis.), and Graysin Hartjes (Kaukauna, Wis.) earning the honor for the women's basketball team.
 
Anne Carmean (Spring Lake Park, Minn.), Maddie Wilsey (Little Canada, Minn.), Jordan Keeley (St. Peter, Minn.), Sidney Polzin (Chippewa Falls, Minn.), Abigail Painovich (Hinckley, Minn.), Sydney Green (East Bethel, Minn.), Alle Urlaub (Burnsville, Minn.), and Katie Devine (Glencoe, Ill.) were the eight women's hockey players on the list, while — women's track and field members Sydney Jackman (Litchfield, Minn.), Kendra Klobe (Glencoe, Minn.), Abrianna Utgaard (Star Prairie, Minn.), Amanda Tuvey (West St. Paul, Minn.), Abbie Meyer (Sauk Centre, Minn.), Caroline (Gearin (Osceola, Wis.), and Samantha Kubes (New Prague, Minn.) also made the cut.
 
Peter Quinn (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Matt Besek (Winona, Minn.), Caden Rodning (Mason City, Iowa), Tucker Stene (Fridley, Minn.), Brendon Raabolle (Andover, Minn.), and Josh Janssen (Green Bay, Wis.) of the men's tennis team, and women's tennis members Emily Henderson (Jordan, Minn.), Ella Boomgaarden (St. Peter, Minn.), Natalie Peterson (St. Cloud, Minn.), Zoie Becker (St. James, Minn.), and Peyton Buerman (Shawano, Wis.) earned spots on the Academic All-MIAC teams, as did Francis Perroud (Villa Elisa, Argentina), Joey White (Fountain City, Wis.), Mason Klett (Apple Valley, Minn.), and Owen Ziegler (Mount Horeb, Wis.) of the men's basketball team, and men's track and field athletes Gabe Bickerstaff (Rollingstone, Minn.) and Cade Kloss (Apple Valley, Minn.).