School-record 90 Rams named Mountain West Scholar-Athletes for 2016-17

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Seventy-six Colorado State student-athletes combined to earn a total of 90 Scholar-Athlete awards from the Mountain West for outstanding performances in the classroom during the 2016-17 academic year. The conference announced this year's MW Scholar-Athletes on Tuesday.

Each total – the Rams' 76 honorees and the 90 total honors - are school records. Prior to this year, CSU's previous bests were 69 honorees and 82 total honors, which were each set in 2015-16. 14 student-athletes earned multiple honors, including Jefferson Abbey, Forrest Barton, Mary Franke, Darby Gilfillan, Adam Hartman, Alex Hess, Ricardo Kaempfen, Ali Kallner, Janelle Lincks, Jerrell Mock, Eli Oftedal, McKenna Spillar, Roxy Trotter and Justin Weinmeister. Each earned accolades in each of cross country and track & field.

Of the student-athletes honored by the MW, 41 with cumulative grade-point averages above 3.75 and six – Solene Crawley (women's tennis), Alex Hess (cross country/track & field), Ricardo Kaempfen (cross country/track & field), Katie Kicklighter (swimming & diving), Tait Rutherford (track & field) and Amanda Young (volleyball) who hold 4.0 GPAs.

The MW Scholar-Athlete award is among the highest academic honors awarded by the conference. In order to be eligible for MW Scholar-Athlete honors, a student-athlete must have finished at least two academic terms at her or his institution, while maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher. In addition, that student-athlete must have participated in competition in her or his respective sport.

See below for the full list of the Rams' 90 Scholar-Athlete honors:

SPORT	NAME	YEAR	MAJOR
Women's Basketball	Gustavsson, Elin	Senior	Communication Studies
Women's Basketball	Mirkovic, Veronika	Junior	Journalism and Media Communications
Women's Basketball	Tvrdy, Hannah	Junior	Health and Exercise Science
Men's Cross Country	Abbey, Jefferson	Senior	History
Men's Cross Country	Barton, Forrest	Sophomore	Journalism and Media Communications
Men's Cross Country	Hartman, Adam	Senior	Mechanical Engineering
Men's Cross Country	Kaempfen, Ricardo	Senior	Post-Grad Microbiology
Men's Cross Country	Mock, Jerrell	Junior	Biological Science
Men's Cross Country	Oftedal, Eli	Sophomore	Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts
Men's Cross Country	Weinmeister, Justin	Senior	Mechanical Engineering
Women's Cross Country	Franke, Mary	Junior	History
Women's Cross Country	Gilfillan, Darby	Sophomore	Biological Science
Women's Cross Country	Hess, Alex	Senior	Post-Grad Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Women's Cross Country	Kallner, Ali	Sophomore	Biochemistry
Women's Cross Country	Lincks, Janelle	Senior	English
Women's Cross Country	Spillar, McKenna	Junior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Cross Country	Trotter, Roxy	Sophomore	Nutrition and Food Science
Football	Bauta, Faton	Senior	Post-Grad Education & Human Resource Studies
Football	Bryan, Wyatt	Sophomore	Mechanical Engineering
Football	Elsenbast, Patrick	Senior	History
Football	Falls, Justin	Junior	Construction Management
Football	Peralta, Nolan	Senior	Biological Science
Football	Robinson, Adrian	Senior	Business Administration
Men's Golf	Iverson, Logan	Senior	Business Administration
Men's Golf	Ott, AJ	Freshman	Business Administration
Women's Golf	Becker, Brianna	Senior	Business Administration
Women's Golf	Rau, Elisabeth	Senior	Geology
Women's Golf	Reiners, Caroline	Sophomore	Business Administration
Women's Golf	Sloot, Jessica	Freshman	Chemical & Biological Engineer
Women's Soccer	Bowden, Shelby	Senior	Post-Grad Public Communication & Technology
Women's Soccer	Chaffetz, Taylor	Junior	Political Science
Women's Soccer	Esterle, Caitlin	Sophomore	Human Development & Family Studies
Women's Soccer	Havlicek, Halley	Freshman	Mechanical Engineering
Women's Soccer	Marconi, Gianna	Junior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Soccer	Nelson, Taylor	Senior	Interior Design
Women's Soccer	Relph, Madisann	Sophomore	Business Administration
Women's Soccer	Rodriguez, Maddi	Junior	Psychology
Women's Soccer	Stone, Janelle	Junior	Engineering
Softball	Buchanan, Lauren	Sophomore	English
Softball	Evans, Hayleigh	Junior	Journalism and Media Communications
Softball	Gamboa, Corina	Freshman	Undeclared
Softball	Kauk, Kirsten	Sophomore	Biomedical Engineering
Softball	Klein, Danni	Sophomore	Journalism and Media Communications
Women's Swimming and Diving	Basile, Andrea	Freshman	Chemical & Biological Engineer
Women's Swimming and Diving	Goodwyn, Marie	Freshman	Biomedical Engineering
Women's Swimming and Diving	Kicklighter, Katie	Junior	Business Administration
Women's Swimming and Diving	Lawton, Kelsey	Sophomore	Biomedical Sciences
Women's Swimming and Diving	Lloyd, Megan	Senior	Apparel and Merchandising
Women's Swimming and Diving	Mand, Carmen	Sophomore	Economics
Women's Swimming and Diving	Morin, Veronica	Freshman	Neuroscience
Women's Swimming and Diving	Prasse, Elizabeth	Senior	Journalism and Media Communications
Women's Swimming and Diving	Salanitro, Gianna	Junior	Business Administration
Women's Swimming and Diving	Stitt, Nina	Sophomore	Biological Science
Women's Swimming and Diving	Williams, Emily	Senior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Swimming and Diving	Young, Georgia	Freshman	Psychology
Women's Tennis	Crawley, Solene	Freshman	International Studies
Women's Tennis	Keta, Sandra	Freshman	Art
Women's Tennis	Porter, Madison	Senior	Health and Exercise Science
Men's Track and Field	Abbey, Jefferson	Senior	History
Men's Track and Field	Barton, Forrest	Sophomore	Journalism and Media Communications
Men's Track and Field	Cogdill, Joshua	Senior	Computer Engineering
Men's Track and Field	Fox, Dalten	Sophomore	International Studies
Men's Track and Field	Hartman, Adam	Senior	Mechanical Engineering
Men's Track and Field	Kaempfen, Ricardo	Senior	Post-Grad Microbiology
Men's Track and Field	Meihaus, Nick	Junior	Construction Management
Men's Track and Field	Mock, Jerrell	Junior	Biological Science
Men's Track and Field	Oftedal, Eli	Sophomore	Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts
Men's Track and Field	Rutherford, Tait	Senior	Post-Grad Forest Sciences
Men's Track and Field	Weinmeister, Justin	Senior	Mechanical Engineering
Women's Track and Field	Anderson, Jenna	Sophomore	Mathematics
Women's Track and Field	Brown, Isobel	Senior	Business Administration
Women's Track and Field	Franke, Mary	Junior	History
Women's Track and Field	Gilfillan, Darby	Sophomore	Biological Science
Women's Track and Field	Hess, Alex	Senior	Post-Grad Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Women's Track and Field	Joensson, Linnea	Sophomore	Neuroscience
Women's Track and Field	Kallner, Ali	Sophomore	Biochemistry
Women's Track and Field	Kreutz, Macy	Sophomore	Business Administration
Women's Track and Field	Lincks, Janelle	Senior	English
Women's Track and Field	Pajak, Gabrielle	Senior	Chemical & Biological Engineer
Women's Track and Field	Simpson, Abby	Senior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Track and Field	Spillar, McKenna	Junior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Track and Field	Trotter, Roxy	Sophomore	Nutrition and Food Science
Women's Track and Field	Vijayasarathy, Tarah	Sophomore	Biomedical Sciences
Women's Track and Field	Wright, McKenzie	Freshman	Psychology
Women's Track and Field	Yarrow, Laura	Senior	Biological Science
Women's Volleyball	Hougaard-Jensen, Paulina	Freshman	Undeclared
Women's Volleyball	Nicholson, Olivia	Freshman	Undeclared
Women's Volleyball	Oleksak, Katie	Freshman	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Volleyball	Poletto, Alexandra	Junior	Health and Exercise Science
Women's Volleyball	Young, Amanda	Freshman	Nutrition and Food Science

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