Eighteen UAA student-athletes were recognized amongst a record 193 Great Northwest Athletic Conference with stellar academic achievement Thursday. 12 Seawolf women and six men received the GNAC Faculty Athletic Representative's Scholar-Athlete Award for maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.85 or better.
A GNAC full-member school can nominate student-athletes even if they do not compete in a GNAC sponsored sport, including hockey, skiing and gymnastics.
Oliver Mantha, Curtis McKillop, Madeleine Arbuckle and Katerine Lamoureux received the award for the third time, while five Seawolves were repeat winners.
A faculty athletic representative (FAR) is a faculty member of a NCAA school who serves as a liaison between a school's faculty and athletic department.
Full list of UAA winners (GPA, sport, major)
Men — Marcus Deuling (4.00, skiing, elementary education); Alex Jackstadt (4.00, hockey, economics); Olivier Mantha (4.00, hockey, mathematics); Curtis McKillop (3.97, skiing, management); David Trinkberger (4.00, hockey, management); Dominic Unterberger (4.00, skiing, finance).
Women — Madeleine Arbuckle (3.93, gymnastics, environmental studies); Natalie Hynes (4.00, skiing, pre-nursing); Michaela Keller-Miller (4.00, skiing, accounting); Yvonne Jeschke (4.00, track and field, physical education); Louisa Marie Knapp (3.87, gymnastics, physical education); Katerine Lamoureux (3.97, skiing, finance); Mackenzie Miller (4.00, gymnastics, business administration); Marie Ries (4.00, track and field, journalism and public communications); Hannah Rudd (4.00, skiing, biology); Hailey Swirbul (4.00, skiing, civil engineering); Alix Wells (4.00, skiing, health sciences); Casey Wright (4.00, skiing, health sciences).