Thunder student-athletes in 2025 fall sports earn academic recognition from the CCIW
PICTURED ABOVE: Louisa Brorson and Jack Krahel are Wheaton's Jack Swartz Award honorees for fall sports in 2025
Wheaton, Ill. – Wheaton student-athletes have been recognized for their efforts in the classroom by the CCIW. The Fall 2025 Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference Team features 133 Wheaton student-athletes. The Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference team consists of sophomores, juniors and seniors from CCIW member institutions who achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
The Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference award is named after the former Augustana College athletics administrator. Wrath retired in June of 2021 as the Associate Director of Athletics for Media and Alumni Relations, serving the Vikings for 40 years. In addition to his duties at Augustana, Wrath served as the CCIW Sports Information Director from 1996 to 2005 and was instrumental in establishing the CCIW's Academic All-Conference Program in 2005. The 2021-22 academic year marked the first year that the award has been named after the legendary Wrath.
Wheaton's Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference honorees for fall 2025 |
Men's Cross Country |
Football |
Men's Soccer |
Women's Tennis |
Women's Cross Country |
Women's Golf |
Women's Soccer |
Volleyball |
Two Thunder student-athletes earned recognition as the school's fall recipients of the Jack Swartz Award. Graduate student Jack Krahel of the Thunder men's soccer team is Wheaton's male Jack Swartz Award recipient for the fall and senior Louisa Brorson of the Thunder women's cross country team, is Wheaton's female honoree. Krahel is enrolled in the Master's in Leadership program in Wheaton's graduate school and holds a cumulative GPA of 3.87. Brorson is a senior Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major at Wheaton with a cumulative 3.93 GPA
The Jack Swartz Award is given to one male and one female athlete from each conference school at the conclusion of each of the three athletic seasons (fall, winter and spring). The honor is given by the CCIW and each of the eight schools in the league picks their own representatives. The winners from each school must earn a varsity letter in his/her sport and have a grade point average of at least 3.50. The award is named after the late Jack Swartz, a former Wheaton student-athlete, coach and athletic administrator who served as the first Commissioner of the CCIW until his death in 1998.
FALL CCIW ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE
Men's Cross Country
Joshua Cross
Jacob Davis
Evan Dawson
Tobiah Gieser
Jude Hubbard
Sheldon Powell
Wyatt Shepson
Kaleb Skelly
Josh Steiner
Drew Swiston
Daniel Varblow
Luke Wertz
Micah Young
Women's Cross Country
Elise Book
Louisa Brorson
Evie Huston
Lily Lebo
Sophie Lee
Emmarie Marino
Laura Prothero
Sarah Quintanilla
Abby Rickard
Clara Rudolph
Julia Snider
Alexis Soukup
Tavinya Taylor
Football
Mansell Amos
Steven Ball
Anthony Barbar
Joseph Bracy
Ethan Brunner
Xander Carroll
Luke Crawford
Matt Crider
Ethan Crunk
Ayden Doran
Finnley Doriot
Owen Downing
Charlie Duck
Jackson Eller
Luke Fox
Andrew Gabriel
Trent Gabriele
Thomas Greupner
Brady Grondz
Maison Haas
Jimmy Hanson
Zeke Harris
Grant Hayworth
Luke Heggie
Riley Howard
Whit Jewett
Peter Johanik
Parker Joseph
Isaac Kiger
Seth Kortenhoeven
Rex Kroger
Andrew McKay
Dawson McLaughlin
Corban Milano
David Nussbaum
Seamus O'Connell
AJ Pace
Jaxon Powell
Women's Golf
Molly Holbert
Abby Smith
Men's Soccer
Beck Aamot
Garrett Belcher
Caleb Davis
Cooper Falling
Ben Foulk
Sam Grotelueschen
Andrew Heeringa
David Huber
Kyle Johnson
Timmy Jones
Jack Krahel
Mason Louth
Jonny Michael
Craig Rusin
Caleb Ryan
Wes Seneff
David Vezza
Women's Soccer
Elizabeth Clawson
Kate Creighton
Grace Crowder
Marissa Davis
Maddie Grinstead
Leah Harris
Kylie Houghton
Hannah Lindberg
Annika Lindquist
Lily Lindquist
Olivia Martin
Eleanor Mounts
Elizabeth Netz
Danie Nishiyama
Juliana Norman
Elizabeth Ondoma
Lucie Parrish
Aliah Ring
Emily Setran
Rose Spagnolo
Alli Sullivan
Julia Tallungan
Women's Tennis
Elizabeth Dieter
Madeline Gentry
Kiana Giunta
Janet Kondo
Ella Malone
Mariclare O'Gorman
Carly O'Leary
Tatum Thurstone
Volleyball
Katherine Adkison
Faith Bailey
Jordan Benford
Paris Griffin
Lacey Higgins
Ashton Major
Karalyn Osborne
Sydney Overweg
Sarah Sanderson
Meghan Shah
Tessa Smith
Cat Wilhite
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