On Thursday, Feb. 8, the Mountain West released the Fall 2023 Academic All-Mountain West Team, and 21 Colorado College women's soccer players were named to the team. This is the seventh consecutive season that 16 or more members from CC have earned a spot.
The 21 spots CC earned is tied for second-most amongst all Mountain West women's soccer teams this year and third most in program history, one behind last year's 22 spots.
CC had two student-athletes in juniors,
Kaelin Enga and
Ashley Stewart, who had perfect 4.0 GPAs through the fall semester. Five others reached GPAs above 3.90, including senior Haley Harnish, junior
Ava Risser, sophomore
Evie Biggs, and first-year
Veronica Bianco.
Seniors
Lily Byrne and
Alexis Wessler are on the list this year for the fourth time in their careers, making them the 14th and 15th athletes in program history to receive the honor four times. They join Jordan Darrow, Adelaide Gaffney and Alexa Porter, who joined last year. Before them it was Jacqui Hand (2018-21), Kiley Suter (2018-21), Jenna Wilt (2018-21), Abby Hubbard (2018-21), Ali Basom (2014-17), Clara Richter (2015-18), Kelli Sullivan (2015-18), Katie McDonald (2016-19), Tayla Wheeler (2017-20) and Weaver (1917-20) as the program's four-time recipients of the award.
17 Tigers on the list had GPAs of 3.50 or higher.
"The team did an amazing job of balancing their classwork with the demands of soccer," head coach
Keri Sanchez said. "I am extremely proud of their commitment to their studies. As a team, we work to achieve a high standard in all endeavors, and it is great to see how well they did this semester in the classroom."
The conference announced that 834 student-athletes were named to the overall list. Fall sports include men's and women's cross country, football, women's soccer, and women's volleyball.
To be eligible for the Academic All-Mountain West team, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term at the member institution while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better and appearing in at least 50 percent of the team's contests. Some latitude was permitted to accommodate injured student-athletes
