The Northwest Conference has named its first annual
Scholar-Athletes First Team. This recognizes student-athletes that
have excelled in the classroom, in athletic competition, and in the
community. Each Northwest Conference faculty athletics
representative named one male and one female winner from its school
based on the institution’s own criteria.
Profiles of the honorees can be found by clicking here.
The All-NWC Scholar-Athletes First Team includes:
George Fox:
Kristin Shielee – Women’s Basketball, 3.95 GPA –
elementary education
Ryan Forbes – Men’s Track, 3.5 - business
Lewis & Clark:
Tamma Carleton – Women’s Track & Field/Cross
Country, 3.948 GPA – economics
Tyson Papenfuss – Men’s Basketball, 3.75 GPA -
economics
Linfield:
Brittany Miller – Softball, 3.57 GPA – psychology,
sociology
Dominic Rieniets – Men’s Swimming, 3.801 GPA –
studio art
Pacific:
Risa Allen – Women’s Track & Field/Cross Country,
3.700 GPA - mathematics
Avery Neal – Men’s Soccer and Track & Field, 3.951
GPA – exercise science
Pacific Lutheran:
Amy Spieker – Women’s Basketball, 3.92 GPA
– political science, economics
Brian Erickson – Men’s Golf, 3.97 GPA – spanish,
global studies
Puget Sound:
Fiona Gornick – Women’s Swimming, 3.91 GPA
– exercise science
Garrett Gentling – Men’s Swimming, 3.83 GPA–
international business
Whitman:
Katie Oost – Women’s Tennis, 3.762 GPA -
psychology
Pete Stadmeyer – Baseball, 3.868 GPA - biology
Whitworth:
Penelope Crowe – Women’s Soccer, 3.897 GPA
– biology
Justin Brandler – Men’s Swimming, 3.984 GPA –
biology (pre-med)
Willamette:
Maddie Coffman – Women’s Track &
Field/Cross Country, 3.80 GPA - biology
Grant Leslie – Football, 3.25 GPA – rhetoric and media
studies, business management