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MIAC honors winter/spring student-athletes with Academic All-Conference distinction

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Student-athletes in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) continue to achieve in both competition and the classroom.
 
On Thursday, the MIAC announced its 2025-26 Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference honorees, including 1,461 student-athletes. Combined with the 851 fall-sport athletes honored in January, the overall total of Academic All-MIAC selections for the 2025-26 academic year sets a new Conference high of 2,319, surpassing the previous record of 2,288, established last June.
 
The latest Academic All-Conference list spotlights more than 1,400 examples of student-athletes achieving excellence without compromise. This is the fifth consecutive June in which the MIAC's overall Academic All-Conference list has exceeded 2,000 student-athletes. Four sports matched or broke their single-season records, including women's track & field (246), softball (131), women's basketball (97), and men's swimming & diving (66). 
 
Additional sport totals included men's track & field (184), baseball (163), women's swimming & diving (118), women's hockey (112), men’s hockey (107), women's tennis (69), men's tennis (51), men's basketball (47), women’s golf (39), and men's golf (31).
 
To qualify for Academic All-MIAC status, student-athletes must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors by academic standards with a minimum cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Students must also complete one full-time academic year at their current institution before becoming eligible for the honor. An athlete must be a member of a MIAC-sponsored varsity sports team, be academically and athletically eligible, have utilized a season of participation per NCAA and MIAC definitions, and have remained on the sports roster through the conclusion of the sports season to be eligible for Academic All-Conference honors.
 
The 2025-26 MIAC Academic All-Conference honorees can be found here, listed alphabetically by sport and then by institution. To see all-time honorees, please visit the MIAC Academic All-Conference archives.