Five Gophers Earn Academic All-America Honors for At-Large Sports

Athletics | 8/6/2021 9:41:00 AM

MINNEAPOLIS – 5 extra College of Minnesota student-athletes have earned CoSIDA Educational All-America honors because the Faculty Sports activities Info Administrators of America introduced this 12 months’s at-large groups on Friday morning. 

The Gophers garnered a trio of First Staff Educational All-Individuals in Jack LaFontaine (males’s hockey), Lexy Ramler (ladies’s gymnastics) and Shane Wiskus (males’s gymnastics) whereas Ona Loper (ladies’s gymnastics) and Grace Zumwinkle (ladies’s hockey) earned Second Staff Educational All-America deserves. Minnesota has earned a complete of seven CoSIDA Educational All-America accolades this 12 months with Blais Andries (First Staff, soccer) and Laura Bagwell Katalinich (Third Staff, ladies’s basketball) incomes honors earlier this season. Eight Gophers stay eligible for the award with cross nation and monitor & area closing out this 12 months’s award calendar subsequent week.  

Recognizing the nation’s high student-athletes for his or her mixed performances in competitors and within the classroom, a student-athlete have to be a starter or essential reserve with at the least a 3.30 cumulative grade level common (on a 4.0 scale) at their present establishment with the intention to be nominated for CoSIDA Educational All-District and CoSIDA Educational All-America. Nominees are voted on by CoSIDA members all year long. 

An English main from Mississauga, Ontario, LaFontaine received the Mike Richter Award because the nation’s high goaltender in 2021 and was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award because the nation’s high participant. A First Staff All-American and First Staff All-Huge Ten choice, the senior captain was additionally named the Huge Ten Goaltender of the Yr and led Minnesota to the 2021 Huge Ten match title. A two-time Educational All-Huge Ten decide and a Huge Ten Distinguished Scholar, LaFontaine was awarded the Huge Ten Medal of Honor in 2021. 

An entrepreneurial administration main from St. Michael, Minn., Ramler is a three-time Educational All-Huge Ten choice and a Huge Ten Distinguished Scholar. She is a nine-time NCAA All-American, a 13-time WCGA Common-Season All-American and the 2021 AAI Award recipient. The 2021 NCAA Regional All-Round champion is a three-time Huge Ten Gymnast of the Yr and a five-time Huge Ten champion, having additionally helped Minnesota to the 2021 Huge Ten match title. 

A enterprise and advertising and marketing schooling main from Spring Park, Minn., Wiskus is a three-time NCAA champion and the 2021 Nissen-Emery Award winner because the nation’s excellent senior. The three-time Huge Ten Gymnast of the Yr can also be a three-time NCAA all-around runner-up whereas incomes 15 whole All-America nods and three First Staff All-Huge Ten accolades. He received 4 Huge Ten titles in 2021 together with all-around honors and represented the U.S. on the 2020 Olympic Video games in Tokyo. The crew captain can also be a three-time Educational All-Huge Ten honoree.

A graduate scholar in epidemiology from Bluffton, S.C., Loper is a three-time Educational All-Huge Ten honoree and a three-time Huge Ten Distinguished Scholar. She has earned three NCAA All-America honors in 2021 and is a four-time WCGA Common-Season All-American. The 2021 Huge Ten champion on the ground and all-round runner-up is a three-time First Staff All-Huge Ten decide whereas additionally serving to Minnesota declare the 2021 Huge Ten match title. Loper can also be a three-time NCAA regional occasion champion. 

A finance main from Excelsior, Minn., Zumwinkle is a three-time WCHA All-Educational and Educational All-Huge Ten choice. The crew captain was a Second Staff All-American and a finalist for Patty Kazmaier Award in 2021. The four-time All-WCHA choice led the Gophers in targets and factors this 12 months and ranks tenth in program historical past with 84 profession targets. Zumwinkle can also be a candidate to make the U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Staff for the 2022 Olympic Winter Video games in Beijing.