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Falcons Earn Academic Honors from Mountain West
7/25/2025 10:11:00 AM | Track and Field
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Thirty-nine members of the Air Force track and field team (18 men, 21 women) were named Academic All-Conference by the Mountain West this week, while half of that list added MW Scholar-Athlete distinction for their success in the classroom.
The Falcons' 2025 sophomore class paced the team with 14 selections, including Lilianne Aittama, Kayla Beach (Huntington Beach, Calif./Ronald Reagan (San Antonio, Texas)), Ansley Bishop (Greenwood, Ind./Roncalli), Alex Brooks, Carly Foster, Ryan Hajek, Anna Harden, Jonah Hochstetler (Traverse City, Mich./Traverse City West Senior), Patrick Lawson, Jonah Meyer, Karli Neff, Dominykas Remeikis (Breckenridge, Colo./Summit), Ben Sklodowski, and Clara Teigland. Barrett Boyd, Kimi Cahoon, Caroline Carrico, Zachary Hall, Leilani Harris, Christopher Johnson (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield), Trevin Jordan, Grace Mullin, Alexander Pinckney, Sarah Reynolds, Brayden Richards and Jasleen Sidhu claimed academic all-conference honors following their first year at the Academy.
Ethan Ashley, Zach Ayers, Jevonte Eaves, India Jones, Tanner Lindahl, Casey Nixon. Jettason Rose, Max Sannes and Jacqui Spencer represented the Class of 2026 on the conference's list of academic honorees, while the academic honorees from the Class of 2025 – Halle Hamilton, Ally Peterson, Jason Renze, Taylor Rioux – combined for 14 academic all-MW honors over their four years at the Academy.
Overall, the Academy placed 93 cadet-athletes on the spring academic all-MW list – the second-highest tally of selections in school history, as the track and field members joined athletes from baseball, basketball, golf, women's gymnastics, women's swimming and diving and tennis.
To be eligible for academic all-conference selection, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term at the member institution while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better, and must have competed in a significant portion of the team's events.
In addition, the conference also announced the Mountain West Scholar-Athletes for the 2024-25 academic year – a distinction that is awarded to any athlete of a MW team that has completed at least two semesters (or three quarters) at their institution and maintained a GPA of at least 3.50.
A total of 10 men – Eaves, Lawson, Pinckney, Remeikis, Renze, Richards, Sannes, Sklodowski, Cody Kelley, Tanner Woodring – and nine women – Bishop, Harden, Harris, Jones, Neff, Teigland, Kori Leverenz, Anna Lindsley, Grace Mullin – were named Mountain West Scholar-Athletes for the track and field team.
The Falcons' 2025 sophomore class paced the team with 14 selections, including Lilianne Aittama, Kayla Beach (Huntington Beach, Calif./Ronald Reagan (San Antonio, Texas)), Ansley Bishop (Greenwood, Ind./Roncalli), Alex Brooks, Carly Foster, Ryan Hajek, Anna Harden, Jonah Hochstetler (Traverse City, Mich./Traverse City West Senior), Patrick Lawson, Jonah Meyer, Karli Neff, Dominykas Remeikis (Breckenridge, Colo./Summit), Ben Sklodowski, and Clara Teigland. Barrett Boyd, Kimi Cahoon, Caroline Carrico, Zachary Hall, Leilani Harris, Christopher Johnson (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield), Trevin Jordan, Grace Mullin, Alexander Pinckney, Sarah Reynolds, Brayden Richards and Jasleen Sidhu claimed academic all-conference honors following their first year at the Academy.
Ethan Ashley, Zach Ayers, Jevonte Eaves, India Jones, Tanner Lindahl, Casey Nixon. Jettason Rose, Max Sannes and Jacqui Spencer represented the Class of 2026 on the conference's list of academic honorees, while the academic honorees from the Class of 2025 – Halle Hamilton, Ally Peterson, Jason Renze, Taylor Rioux – combined for 14 academic all-MW honors over their four years at the Academy.
Overall, the Academy placed 93 cadet-athletes on the spring academic all-MW list – the second-highest tally of selections in school history, as the track and field members joined athletes from baseball, basketball, golf, women's gymnastics, women's swimming and diving and tennis.
To be eligible for academic all-conference selection, student-athletes must have completed at least one academic term at the member institution while maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better, and must have competed in a significant portion of the team's events.
In addition, the conference also announced the Mountain West Scholar-Athletes for the 2024-25 academic year – a distinction that is awarded to any athlete of a MW team that has completed at least two semesters (or three quarters) at their institution and maintained a GPA of at least 3.50.
A total of 10 men – Eaves, Lawson, Pinckney, Remeikis, Renze, Richards, Sannes, Sklodowski, Cody Kelley, Tanner Woodring – and nine women – Bishop, Harden, Harris, Jones, Neff, Teigland, Kori Leverenz, Anna Lindsley, Grace Mullin – were named Mountain West Scholar-Athletes for the track and field team.
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