Thursday, May 23, 2024
by Evan O'Kelly, Assistant Commissioner For Communications

PORTLAND, Ore. – A total of 112 Great Northwest Athletic Conference women’s track and field student-athletes earned academic all-GNAC presented by Barnes & Noble College for the 2023-24 season announced by the conference office on Friday.

To qualify for the GNAC all-academic teams, nominees must be of sophomore eligibility or greater, have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.20 or greater on a 4.00 scale, be on the team roster for the full season and must be in their second year at the nominating institution.

*-2023 selection | #-2022 selection | !-2021 selection | $2020 selection

Among the recipients were a total of 64 repeat winners and 47 first-time selections. Dakota Hutton-King of Northwest Nazarene held the rare distinction of being a fifth-time academic all-GNAC selection, becoming just the fourth women’s track student-athlete in GNAC history to achieve that feat. Hutton holds a 3.65 GPA while completing her MBA at NNU.

Five seniors garnered the title of being a four-time academic all-GNAC recipient, including a pair from Alaska Anchorage in Joie Vidad and Mikayla Mader. Katie Potts of Western Washington, Destany Herbert of Northwest Nazarene and Margaret Zilla of Saint Martin’s completed the list of four-time winners.

A total of eight student-athletes tied for the highest grade point average among the award winners, each holding a perfect 4.0. Mader, a graduate student pursuing a degree in public administration, was the lone fourth-year selection to carry a 4.0.

Western Oregon had the most academic all-conference selections with 22, while Northwest Nazarene followed with 18 and Western Washington had 17.