Sixteen Huskies Earn NCHC Academic All-Conference Honors

2/20/2025 2:36:00 PM | Men's Hockey

Nine Huskies earn Distinguished Scholar Athlete distinction

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – St. Cloud State Men's Hockey had 16 student-athletes earn National Collegiate Hockey Conference Academic All-Conference Honors, as announced by the league office on Thursday. In addition, nine SCSU student athletes earned the mark of Distinguished Scholar Athlete. The Huskies helped contribute to 131 Academic All-Conference and 91 Distinguished Scholar Athletes league-wide for the 2024-25 season.

St. Cloud State's recipients for Distinguished Scholar-Athlete recognition was redshirt sophomore goaltender James Gray (Toronto, Ontario), senior defenseman Josh Luedtke (Minnetonka, Minn.), sophomore forward Verner Miettinen (Espoo, Finland), senior forward Nick Portz (St. Cloud, Minn.), sophomore goaltender Isak Posch (Umea, Sweden), sophomore forward Jack Reimann (Ham Lake, Minn.), junior defenseman Mason Reiners (Edina, Minn.), junior forward Jack Rogers (East Northport, N.Y.) and redshirt junior forward Ryan Rosborough (Mt. Brydges, Ontario). Earning Academic All-Conference honors for the Huskies was junior forward Grant Ahcan (Savage, Minn.), junior forward Ethan AuCoin (Calgary, Alberta), sophomore defenseman Warren Clark (Riverside, Ontario), senior defenseman Karl Falk (Vasteras, Sweden), sophomore forward Tyson Gross (Calgary, Alberta), sophomore defenseman Kaleb Tiessen (Leamington, Ontario) and junior defenseman Cooper Wylie (Stillwater, Minn.)

Luedtke, Portz and Rosborough earned academic all-conference honors for the fourth consecutive season, while Gray, Reiners and Wylie earned the honor for the third straight season. Earning their second career honor was Gross, Miettinen, Posch, Reimann, Rogers and Tiessen.

To be eligible for the NCHC Academic All-Conference Team, a student-athlete must compile a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average or better, while having completed at least one full academic year at his current institution or have transferred intra-conference and previously been on the NCHC Academic All-Conference Team. Student-athletes that have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better are honored as NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, in addition to Academic All-Conference.

While freshmen and inter-conference first-year transfers, including graduate transfers, are not currently eligible for the NCHC Academic All-Conference Team or Distinguished Scholar-Athlete recognition (due to not having a full year at their current school), those freshmen and transfers that achieve a cumulative 3.0 GPA or better at the conclusion of the 2024-25 academic year will be added to the Academic All-Conference Team over the summer. Similarly, any freshmen or first-year transfers who compile a 3.5 GPA or better will be named an NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete.

The 2024-25 NCHC Senior Scholar-Athlete Award, chosen from senior Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, will be announced at the annual NCHC Awards Celebration, which will once again be held at the St. Paul Event Center on Thursday, March 20 in Saint Paul, Minn. NCHC All-Conference and All-Rookie Teams, along with NCHC individual award finalists, will be announced the week prior from March 11-13.

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