SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – Shippensburg University had 33 of its spring sports student-athletes named Wednesday afternoon to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Academic All-Conference Team.
 
Per the PSAC, this new honor for the 2025-26 school year was created to increase academic recognition for high-achieving student-athletes – a priority for the league's members that was highlighted in its most recent Strategic Plan. Academic All-Conference awards were previously chosen for the fall and winter seasons.
 
Shippensburg's Spring 2026 Academic All-Conference award winners are as follows:
 
Baseball: Conner Barto, Brady Harbach, Brady Kain, Ty Sherman
 
Lacrosse: Alexa Bailey, Brynn Hauck, Ali Pioli
 
Men's Track & Field: Kyle Baker, Ethan Conrad, Tommy Crum Jr., Jackson Gutekunst, Garrett Quinan, Quinton Townsend, Ryan Wolfe
 
Softball: Reagan Bauman, Rilee Ehrlacher, Caitlyn Martell, Sarah Sabocsik
 
Tennis: Yasmin De Meyer
 
Women's Track & Field: Melanie Barger, Lauren Bellows, Carissa Bender, Carly Bennett, Emily Calamia, Makayla Decker, Lilah Drager, Abby Gotwals, Alexis Keefer, Ashley Laukus, Kyra Love, Madison Malcolm, Elliot Oliphant, Ava Whysong
 
To achieve an Academic All-Conference classification, a student-athlete must have completed both two seasons of athletic eligibility and four semesters academically with at least a 3.5 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
 
Additional criteria is based on participation that varies by sport. For what the PSAC designates a "team sport," (in this case, baseball, softball and lacrosse), a student-athlete must have played in 70 percent of their team's games through the completion of the conference championship. Exceptions are made for baseball and softball pitchers who recorded either 30 innings pitched or 15 total appearances.
 
For the purpose of Academic All-Conference honors, the PSAC defines track & field as an "individual sport." The additional requirements for track & field are that eligible student-athlete must have achieved a PSAC qualifying standard in an individual event or been listed among the Top 25 performers in an individual event on the PSAC performance list. Eligible student-athletes from the indoor season are included for these awards.
 
Recognition is based solely on meeting the above criteria. GPAs were calculated through the previous completed semester (Fall 2025).