KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- The Western Michigan softball team landed five student-athletes on the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team, with Riley Dittmar, Jensen Gremillion, Tristen Head, Payton Kelly and Taylor Wolfe earning the honors.

Eligible nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's games. For pitchers, a student-athlete must have made at least 17 appearances OR pitched 35 innings.An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.

Dittmar boasts a 3.90 GPA in biomedical sciences, with Gremillion posting a 3.98 in health services and sciences. Head has a 3.88 in nursing, with Kelly wrapping up her career with the honors after a 3.59 in English literature. Wolfe ends her career with a perfect 4.00 in criminal justices.