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NCAA DIVISION II

Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Men’s Sports Baseball Cross Country Track & Field Basketball Football Wrestling

Women’s Sports Basketball Soccer Tennis Cross Country Softball Track & Field Golf Swimming & Diving Volleyball

Co-ed Sports Esports Wheelchair Basketball ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS 52 NSIC regular season championships 1 NCAA National Runner-up 3 NCAA region championships 3 NIWBT National Championships 4 Individual National Champions 253 All-American awards 23 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans 3 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipients 2 NCAA Volleyball National Player of the Year awards 8 NSIC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards 3 NSIC Male Scholar-Athletes of the Year awards

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ATHLETIC HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2019-2020 YEAR

SMSU Athletics had another exceptional year both on the field of play and in the classroom . •SMSU student-athletes compiled a 3 .13 GPA . •A department record of 101 student-athletes named Academic All-NSIC (GPA of 3 .20+) . •A total of nine student-athletes received first team

All-NSIC accolades . •Six student-athletes named All-Region . •Four student-athletes named All-American . •Women’s track & field student-athlete Rebecca

Manteuffel earned Indoor All-American honors . •Football student-athletes Daniel Davis and Onte

Burns both earned All-American accolades . •Wheelchair basketball student-athlete Jesus Villa named the 2019-20 NWBA Player of the Year . •Wheelchair basketball student-athlete Ryan Kile named a 2019-20 NWBA Scholar All-American . •Wrestling student-athlete Jackson Ryan finished third at the 2020 NCAA Super Region championships and advanced to the NCAA

Championships . •Freshman Natalie Bohnert became the first-ever

SMSU swimmer to earn All-NSIC honors in the program’s inaugural season . •Student-athletes Emma Grote (softball), John

Bezdicek (baseball) and Angela Young (volleyball) all named CoSIDA Academic All-District . 23

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