CLEVELAND – Ten members of the Western Michigan women's soccer program have earned Academic All-Mid-American Conference Honors, as announced by the conference office on Wednesday.
Senior Lydia Bajema (3.94, industrial and entrepreneurial engineering), senior Hannah Kahn (3.84, interdisciplinary health services), junior Bailey Korhorn (3.93, accounting), sophomore Emily Dahl (3.55, occupational therapy), sophomore Victoria Kyriakopolous (3.95, English), senior Grace Labadie (3.90, sport management), sophomore Morgan Otteson (3.65, management), junior Maggie Rogers (3.26, sport management), redshirt junior Rachel Royer (3.79, interdisciplinary health services) and sophomore Kai Sugiyama (3.87, biomedical sciences) all performed well on the field and in the classroom this season.
The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport.
Bajema, Kahn, Korhorn and Labadie are all repeat honors, while Dahl, Kyriakopolous, Otteson, Rogers, Royer and Sugiyama all earn it for the first time. Bajema was a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-District selection this season as well. Otteson adds to her growing list of accolades after earning First Team All-MAC and United Soccer Coaches Third Team All-District honors.
