CARMEL, IN - The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) has announced the 2025 Winter honorees for the Tom Bohlsen Academic All-HCAC list.  Academic All-Conference selections must carry at least a cumulative 3.5 GPA and are varsity athletes. The Transylvania University Pioneers has the second highest number of student athletes on the team, behind Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Across six winter sports, 44 Pioneers were named to the team. 

The cumulative GPA is the student-athletes GPA at the end of the academic term at the end of the winter season. The student-athlete must have completed the equivalent of a full academic year and must be a full-time enrolled student at the institution to be eligible for the Academic All-Conference award.

The Winter 2025 HCAC All-Academic list features 277 athletes from the 10 member institutions and showcases student athletes from the Winter HCAC sports of Men's and Women's Basketball, Men's and Women's Indoor Track & Field, Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving.

The award is named after Tom Bohlsen, who served as the HCAC's first commissioner from 1998 to 2008.

A full list of Transylvania's 2025 Winter honorees are listed below: 

Men's Basketball - 6 
Dakota Capps, Junior
Jess Davis, Sophomore
Andrew Marshall, Junior
Hunter Penn, Senior 
Brandon Rowe, Sophomore
Samuel Stone, Sophomore 

Women's Basketball - 5
Scarlett Bruner, Junior
Sierra Kemelgor, Junior
Nicole Mears, Junior
McLain Murphy, Senior
Emilie Teall, Senior 

Men's Swimming and Diving - 8
Kole Brannock, Junior
Robert Crady, Junior
Mark Finney, Senior
William Goodmann, Junior
Lukas McIntyre-Quinn, Sophomore
Braden Shearer, Junior
Kaden Siler, Senior
Ballard Wheatley, Junior

Women's Swimming and Diving - 9
Meghan Doolin, Sophomore
MacKenzie Farner, Sophomore
Charlotte Green, Senior
Riley Hayden, Junior
Allie Hinchman, Junior
Amanda Kesler, Sophomore
Mary Grace Thompson, Senior
Jasmine Webb, Senior
Sydney Whitford, Senior

Men's Indoor Track and Field - 4
Evan Barker, Junior
Ernest Bowen, Senior
Henry Nunn, Senior
George Thacker, Senior 

Women's Indoor Track and Field - 12
Gwyneth Cunningham, Junior
Emilie Gaudron, Sophomore
Carson Graves, Senior
Kaycee Moore, Senior
Elizabeth Perkins, Junior
Taylor Roark, Senior
Abigail Rowe, Senior
Margaret Simmons, Sophomore
Olivia Sparks, Junior
Peyon Tan, Junior
Ellison Thornsbury, Senior
Camden Wilson, Junior

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