Midwest Conference Names 165 Scots as Academic All-Conference

Baseball leads the way for Monmouth with 19 selections

by Nathan Baliva

MONMOUTH, Ill. (07/15/2022) — Monmouth College had 165 student-athletes, representing 17 sports, named Midwest Conference Academic All-Conference on Friday.

Of those 165 student-athletes, 98 represent women's teams while 67 come from men's teams. The baseball team leads the way with 19 overall selections while the women's indoor and outdoor track & field teams both had 18 honorees. Football (14), softball (13), volleyball (12) and women's soccer (12) were also in double digits. Volleyball and softball had the second most selections in the MWC while both women's track & field teams were third and baseball was fourth.

The Scots had 57 selections from fall sports, 47 from winter sports and 61 from spring sports. In addition to these MWC Academic All-Conference selections, the Scots put three men's golfers on the SLIAC Academic All-Conference team last month plus five men's lacrosse players were honored in the MLC and nine women's players by the MWLC. Overall, Monmouth had 182 Academic All-Conference honorees in the three conferences for which they participate in athletics for the 2021-22 academic year.

The MWC honorees are as follows:
Fall Sports
Men's Cross Country: Neo Colter, Riley Dulin, Eli Newton, William Plumley

Women's Cross Country: Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez, Kara Fisher, Arika Hofmann, Nyasaina Kwamboka, Mik Moore, Emma Wohlstadter

Football: Jackson Bergren, Drake Dietrich, Kyle Dilley, Addison Fletcher, Devin Graham, Cole Jackson, Chris Kimble, Matt McMillan, Kyler Pessman, Kaleb Plattenberger, Cody Szelc, Matt Thoele, Jake Uryasz, Reggie Willis

Men's Soccer: Muhammad Ali Sabtain, James Azzi, Wyatt Mayor, Jack Millar, Matt Rhenals

Women's Soccer: Hadyn DeLeeuw, Jordyn Gosell, Nicole Koppers, Sam Koppers, Madison Meldrum, Alyssa Mileham, Sarah Poirier, Elizabeth Schmidt, Lea Selquist, Brie Stumbo, Madison Walker, Ashlyn Welch

Women's Tennis: Emily Henson, Emily Laughln, Ditza Montesinos, Jennifer Shimmin

Volleyball: Paige Bergschneider, Karlie Drish, Amanday Dybal, Addie Gilstrap, Megan (Gilstrap) Kimble, Lauryn Jeffries, Kalista Merrill, Camille Prentiss, Savannah Robinson, Kenzie Russell, Layne Wright

Winter Sports
Men's Basketball: Oscar Alcobendas, Jadyn Ellison, Briar Greenman, Ganon Greenman, Tyler Harms, Jonathan Oradiegwu, Yuvraj Sidhu

Women's Basketball: Anna Caster, Lily Harlan, Jordan Kintign, Josie Morgan, Kaitlyn Osmulski, Zoie Wall

Women's Swimming: Kaitlyn Fox, Kayle Heumann, Lauren Johnson, Tristan Lambert, Marissa Logan, Brooke McCormick, Bella Peetz, , Evelyn Schaefer, Jaidlyn Sellers

Men's Indoor Track & Field: Reed Bona, Neo Colter, Riley Dulin, Maurice Greene, Eli Newton, William Plumley, Jeff Schnetzler

Women's Indoor Track & Field: Bethany Allen, Lauren Anderson, Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez, Maddie Boley, Ally Clay, Addi Cox, Megan Daily, Kara Fisher, Ashley Grothaus, Arika Hofmann, Nicole Hoyer, Nyasaina Kwamboka, Mik Moore, Katy Patelski, Jordan Peckham, Linsey Turner, Alyssa Villarreal, Emma Wohlstadter

Spring Sports
Baseball: Bobby Blaschke, Nick Corman, Matt Datlof, Hunter De La Rosa, Addison Fletcher, Todd Fowler, Jeff Garrett, AJ Hatlestad, Tyler Houck, Riley Jennings, Nate Kordzinski, Daniel Lummus, Daniel McClung, Tim McNally, Nate Reed, Anthony Ruggles, Cade Sharp, Jackson Van Iwaarden, Owen Wolfe

Softball: Madelyn Belville, Alex Chamberlain, Lauren Covington, Grace Goodrich, Lillian Hucke, MyKenzie Kloess, Rebecca Merletti, Jenna Pauley, Jessica Pauley, Allie Ramlo, Addison Riley, Makaylea Sepich, Addison Steward:

Men's Tennis: Spencer Corn, Swayer Day, Andrew Shie, Matt Simonson

Men's Outdoor Track & Field: Reed Bona, Neo Colter, Riley Dulin, Maurice Greene, Eli Newton, William Plumley, Jeff Schnetzler

Women's Outdoor Track & Field: Bethany Allen, Lauren Anderson, Ezzie Baltierra-Chavez, Maddie Boley, Ally Clay, Addi Cox, Megan Daily, Kara Fisher, Ashley Grothaus, Arika Hofmann, Nicole Hoyer, Nyasaina Kwamboka, Mik Moore, Katy Patelski, Jordan Peckham, Linsey Turner, Alyssa Villarreal, Emma Wohlstadter

Representing the league's 18 sponsored sports, the MWC Academic All-Conference team features 761 award winners participating in men's sports and 708 women's sports participants. The criteria to be recognized as an Academic All-Conference selection includes having satisfied a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.33, which is calculated only in the awarded academic year.

Last month, Ben Dobberstein, Jimmy Johnson and Max Cook were named SLIAC Academic All-Conference for men's golf. Also in June the MLC and MWLC announced their Academic All-Conference selections. For men's lacrosse, Xandru Borst, Gavin Conway, Jeffrey Knapp, Liam Meyer and Mason Sanford were honored. For women's lacrosse, Hadyn DeLeeuw, Mel Fairand, Courtney Fisher, Mackenzie Holmes, Olivia Matlock, Madison Meldrum, Sarah Poirier, Elizabeth Schmidt and Lindsey Turnquist were honored.