22 Athletes Named to Fall Academic All-HCAC List

GREENWOOD, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference released its Academic All-Conference Honorees list today for the Fall semester and Defiance College was well represented with 22 student-athletes making the list. [HCAC Release]

The Tom Bohlsen Academic All-HCAC award is given to those student-athletes in the HCAC with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.5 and participate in varsity athletics.  The student-athletes are also full time students and have completed a full academic year.  The award is named after Tom Bohlsen who was the first commissioner of the HCAC from 1998 to 2008.

DC was able to place 22 students on the Academic All-HCAC list.  Those represented teams are; men's soccer and volleyball with five student-athletes each, football and women's soccer with three, women's cross country and women's tennis with two each, and one student-athlete from each men's cross country and women's golf.

The representatives for Defiance College are as follows:

Men's Soccer:
Jordan Drake - Sophomore
Ian Fasnacht - Junior
Luke Freels - Senior
Austin Moody - Sophomore
Blayne Robbins - Sophomore

Volleyball:
Caroline Hesterman - Junior
Alicia Kalik - Junior
Chelsea Ludeman - Senior
Alexis Pierce - Senior
Christa Seidenstricker - Senior

Football:
Wayne Kelly - Sophomore
Cody Lee - Sophomore
Josh Slayton – Junior

Women's Soccer:
Kim Bingley - Senior
Chelsie Moyer – Junior
Claire Turner – Sophomore

Women's Cross Country:
Kelsey Bowling - Junior
Marissa Bussard - Junior

Women's Tennis:
Tasha Brown - Senior
Haley Kuhlman - Sophomore

Men's Cross Country:
Adam Grillot - Senior

Women's Golf:
Sarah Westfall - Senior