INDIANAPOLIS - Upper Iowa totaled 42 selections on the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award. This marks a 14-selection increase from the 2024-25 season.
The recipients of the GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award exemplify the outstanding student-athletes in the GLVC. Each honoree has exhausted his or her eligibility in the intercollegiate sport in which they participated and maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average throughout their academic career.
In addition, to be eligible for the award, the student-athlete must have competed in the GLVC for a minimum of two years and completed 96 credit hours. Because of that rule, this is only Upper Iowa's second year of eligibility for the award since joining the conference in 2023-24. A student-athlete can only earn the distinguished honor one time in their career.
The GLVC also gives special recognition to student-athletes who finished their collegiate careers with a 4.0 GPA. Upper Iowa had two honorees for that recognition this season in men's basketball's Trey Kriener and volleyball's Martha Pace.
Baseball totaled the most honorees with 11, and football had eight selections. Softball tallied five selections, while women's track & field and volleyball each tallied four. Men's Soccer (3), men's basketball (2), women's soccer (2), women's cross country (1), women's golf (1) and men's wrestling (1) rounded out UIU's honorees.
The conference recognized a total of 635 student-athletes across all 15 full-time institutions and three associate members. That sets a new GLVC record by 22 students, surpassing the previous mark set in 2024-25 with 613 honorees from 14 member schools. 33 students from 11 institutions finished their careers with a 4.0 GPA.
The GLVC release and full list of honorees can be found at the links above.
Here is the full list of Upper Iowa Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award Winners
Gabe Bombardier, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Devin Garbiso, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Nick Hartje, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Braden Herr, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Isaiah Maes, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Thane Meiners, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Brady Pickett, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Cameron Powell, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Paul Safranski, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Will Smith, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Brock Zimmer, Baseball, Upper Iowa
Trey Kriener, Men's Basketball, Upper Iowa
William Spielbauer, Men's Basketball, Upper Iowa
Eryn Sabelka, Women's Cross Country, Upper Iowa
Connor Andresen, Football, Upper Iowa
Eddie Burgess, Football, Upper Iowa
Brady Leonard, Football, Upper Iowa
Ryan McDonough, Football, Upper Iowa
Darryl Overstreet Jr., Football, Upper Iowa
Klay Seehase, Football, Upper Iowa
Gavin Sweeney, Football, Upper Iowa
Wes Willis, Football, Upper Iowa
Delaney Martin, Women's Golf, Upper Iowa
Florian Deick, Men's Soccer, Upper Iowa
Dexter Garrett, Men's Soccer, Upper Iowa
Alejandro Sanchez, Men's Soccer, Upper Iowa
Maile Kehano, Women's Soccer, Upper Iowa
Natalie Lima, Women's Soccer, Upper Iowa
Addyson Alber, Softball, Upper Iowa
Kaitlin Foral, Softball, Upper Iowa
Elliott Pomeroy, Softball, Upper Iowa
Sara Reid, Softball, Upper Iowa
Emma Tautges, Softball, Upper Iowa
Jillian Dodds, Women's Track & Field, Upper Iowa
Maile Kehano, Women's Track & Field, Upper Iowa
Carolina Regalado, Women's Track & Field, Upper Iowa
Eryn Sabelka, Women's Track & Field, Upper Iowa
McKenna Diermeier, Volleyball, Upper Iowa
Lydia Imbrogno, Volleyball, Upper Iowa
Reese Martin, Volleyball, Upper Iowa
Martha Pace, Volleyball, Upper Iowa
Dawson Schmit, Men's Wrestling, Upper Iowa
