Defiance places 38 athletes on HCAC’s 2023 Fall All-Academic Team

CARMEL, Ind. – The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference released the Fall 2023 Academic All-Conference Awards with 38 Defiance College student-athletes receiving recognition from the conference.

Men's soccer headlined the list with 13 honorees followed by 10 from volleyball. Women's soccer totaled eight award winners followed by five football players and two from women's cross country. Golf academic all-conference teams are recognized after the spring season.

To be awarded Academic All-Conference, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 at the end of the semester before the fall season, have at least one completed academic year, be enrolled full-time, and a varsity athlete. The HCAC's academic awards are named after former HCAC commissioner Tom Bohlsen.

Below is the full list of DC's Academic All-Conference recipients:

Women's Cross Country
Lisa-Maria Markau (SR)
Dana Peterson (SR)

Football
Jacob Deisler (SR)
Branden Durkee (SR)
Will Garlock (SR)
Cole Mabis (SO)
Cole Recker (SR)

Men's Soccer
Austin Boles (SR)
Armando Campos-Ortiz (SR)
Zach Canterbury (JR)
Will Gehlhausen (JR)
Riley Hensley (SR)
Orry Killam (SR)
Zak Klopfenstein (JR)
Cameron Kruyer (JR)
Joshua Maurer (SR)
Noah Paxton (SO)
Jacob Saxby (SO)
Jack Stanoikovich (JR)
Adam Tobin (SR)

Women's Soccer
Lexi Coward (JR)
Logan Gray (SR)
Sloane Livingston (SR)
Jocelyn Peterson (JR)
Christa Phillips (SO)
McKenna Walker (SO)
Hallie Webb (SR)
Clover Worrell (SR)

Volleyball
Kayla Boettger (SR)
Emma Chafins (JR)
Kendra Kline (JR)
Courtney Maxwell (SO)
Maile Misleh-Cowan (SO)
Madison Schoenauer (SR)
Abi Teders (JR)
Kirsten Vanisacker (SO)
Kaylynn Wellman (JR)
Hope Yost (SR)