Montana lands 62 on Big Sky winter academic teams

5/13/2024 1:55:00 PM | General, Men's Basketball, Men's Track and Field, Women's Basketball, Women's Track and Field

By: Montana Sports Information

Montana had 62 student-athletes make the Academic All-Big Sky Conference Team for winter sports, the league office announced on Monday.

The Grizzlies had the third-highest total in the Big Sky for the sports of women's basketball, men's basketball and women's and men's indoor track and field.

To be eligible, student-athletes must have had at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA through the fall semester and have competed in at least half of their team competitions this past season or, in the case of indoor track and field, at the conference championship.

Men's basketball coach Travis DeCuire's and women's basketball coach Brian Holsinger's teams both had eight players make the list.

DeCuire's team tied for the second-highest total in that sport, Holsinger's squad tied for third.

Coach Doug Fraley's women's indoor track and field team had 28 student-athletes recognized, his men's team had 18 make the list. Their combined total of 46 was the third highest in the Big Sky.

Women's Basketball: Dani Bartsch (Jr., Accounting); MJ Bruno (Jr., Social Work); Carmen Gfeller (Gr., Master's of Public Administration); Haley Huard (Jr., Management and Entrepreneurship); Macey Huard (Fr., Business Administration); Adria Lincoln (Fr., Business Administration); Gina Marxen (5th, Psychology); Alex Pirog (So., Criminology)

Men's Basketball: Connor Dick (Fr., Business Administration); Chase Henderson (Fr., Business Administration); Blake Jones (Jr., Sociology); Aanen Moody (Gr., MBA); Jaxon Nap (So., Finance); Laolu Oke (R-So., MBA); Josh Vazquez (Gr., Media Arts); Giordan Williams (R-Sr., MBA)

Women's Indoor Track and Field: Cosley Bruno (So., Communication Studies); Molly Chambers (Jr., Wildlife Biology); Ariel Clark (Sr., Master's of Social Work); MacKenzie Dean (Jr., Media Arts); Jayel Dovichak (Fr., Integrative Physiology); Mikenna Ells (Jr., Management & Entrepreneurship); Ailsa Gilbert (Sr., Master's of Education); Claire Hutchison (Fr., Psychology); Kayla Ingraham (R-So., Sociology & Psychology); Chesnee Lawrence (Fr., Integrative Physiology); Kara Mattson (So., Psychology); Rileigh McGree (So., Communication Studies); Iris McKean (So., Wildlife Biology); Lily Meskers (So., Journalism); Mary Mickelson (Fr., English); Whitney Morrison (Sr., Integrative Physiology); Hannah Moses (Fr., Integrative Physiology); Scout Nadeau (Fr., Business Administration); Molly O'Dell (So., Anthropology); Tara Ohlwiler (Fr., Business Administration); Perry Paffhausen (So., Integrative Physiology); Savana Ramirez (Jr., Psychology); Ainsley Shipman (So., Political Science); Brooke Stayner (So., Integrative Physiology); Morgan Thomas (Fr., Forestry); Katie Whitehurst (Jr., Finance); Erin Wilde (So., Business Management); Emma Zimmerman (Jr., Integrative Physiology)

Men's Indoor Track and Field: Henry Ballinger (Fr., Biology); Jay Beagle (Jr., Marketing); Lane Cole (So., Wildlife Biology); Casey Crouch (Jr., Marketing); Carson Hegele (Fr., Wildlife Biology); Patrick Kremer (So., Management Information Systems); Adam Maxwell (So., Marketing); Walker McDonald (So., Journalism); Xavier Melice (R-Sr., MBA); Jackson Merrill (Fr., Computer Science); Wade Rykal (So., Business Administration); Maxwell Scott (Sr., Computer Science); Kevin Swindler (Fr., Integrative Physiology); Cutter Thatcher (Jr., Management Information Systems); Truman Thompson (Fr., Biochemistry); Jethro Thorne (Sr., Master's of Education); Zachary Travis (Fr., Business Administration); Jason Upton (Sr., MBA)