BURNSVILLE, Minn. - The Northern Sun (NSIC) has announced the 2016-17 NSIC Winter All-Academic Team with 30 Concordia-St. Paul student-athletes earning the honor.

The 2016-17 selections mark a 50 percent increase over the 2015-16 academic year for winter sports, with women's track & field jumping from 11 to 16 and women's basketball leaping from two award winners last year to seven this year. Three more also secured the honor from the men's track & field team.

Overall, the 16-team Northern Sun featured 572 student-athletes earning the winter honor between men's and women's basketball, women's swimming & diving, men's and women's indoor track & field and wrestling.

To be eligible for this honor, the student-athlete must be a member of the varsity traveling team and have a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher. Furthermore, the athlete must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at her/his institution (true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletic transfers are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at that institution.
 

Sport	Name	Yr.	Hometown
Women's Basketball	Kelly McKenzie	Sr.	Minnetonka, Minn.
Women's Basketball	Kayla Miller	Jr.	Pequot Lakes, Minn.
Women's Basketball	Anna Rollag	So.	Elk River, Minn.
Women's Basketball	Caitlyn Russell	Sr.	Onalaska, Wis.
Women's Basketball	Anna Schmitt	So.	Waconia, Minn.
Women's Basketball	Lauren Shifflett	Jr.	Chanhassen, Minn.
Women's Basketball	Hanna Vidlund	So.	Forest Lake, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Adam Hausken	Jr.	Oakdale, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Josh Johanson	Jr.	East Chain, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Jonathan Johnson	Sr.	Stockton, Calif.
Men's Track & Field	Tyler Karl	Jr.	Hutchinson, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Matthew Marrin	So.	Stacy, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Andy Rachuy	So.	Hastings, Minn.
Men's Track & Field	Nasru Wado	So.	St. Paul, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Leah Amundson	Jr.	Prior Lake, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Kalle Burney	Jr.	Minneapolis, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Gretchen Feilen	Jr.	Savage, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Jordan Gray	Jr.	Crystal, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Anna Hughes	Jr.	Shakopee, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Wakpor Ighovojah	Jr.	Woodbury, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Marianna Kramer	Jr.	Prior Lake, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Maddy Kunshier	So.	North Branch, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Ruth Lindberg	So.	Pine Island, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Teghan Norman	So.	Waukesha, Wis.
Women's Track & Field	Courtney Ramsay	So.	Lino Lakes, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Anna Ripke	So.	Lafayette, Ind.
Women's Track & Field	Erika Shady	Jr.	Esko, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Erin Spatenka	Sr.	Owatonna, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Holly Werning	So.	Carver, Minn.
Women's Track & Field	Erica Young	Sr.	Bradford, Minn.