Kalina Ceglinski and Leo Nolles earn GLIAC Commissioner’s Award Honors

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Both Kalina Ceglinski and Leo Nolles of the NMU swim and dive group have been chosen as GLIAC Commissioner’s Award honorees for the winter of the 2025-26 college yr. 

A junior from Elmhurst, Illinois, Ceglinski has earned the primary Commissioner’s Award honor of her collegiate profession. Ceglinski had a standout season on the board, because the diver earned All-America honors in each the 1-meter and 3-meter dives on the NCAA Championships, was named GLIAC Diver of the Year and earned a gold medal and on the GLIAC Championships, and was constantly one of many high divers within the nation, as she was ranked the #1 diver within the 1-meter and #5 within the 3-meter, in response to prodivingcoach.org. Along together with her success on the board, she was not too long ago acknowledged with a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honor and might be thought-about for Academic All-America standing. 

 
A senior from Maldonado, Uruguay, Nolles earns his second straight Commissioner’s Award honor to complete his collegiate profession. The 2024 Paris Olympian was a 7x All-American at this yr’s NCAA Championships, earned two golds and 5 medals on the GLIAC Championships, and was only recently honored with the GLIAC’s Pat Riempa Postgraduate Scholarship, which awards one male and one feminine from the GLIAC with $5,000 in support to the graduate college of their selection, voted on by Faculty Athletic Representatives (FARs) of member establishments. Nolles was additionally chosen as CSC Academic All-Disrict recipient, and might be thought-about for CSC Academic All-America for the third consecutive yr. 

“Congratulations to Leo Nolles and Kalina Ceglinski for their GLIAC awards!” provides head coach Heidi Voigt. “Both are very deserving and have meant so much to our team. Leo has been a Wildcat through and through his whole career, bringing motivation and competitive drive to his team. He truly lives and breathes swimming, not only dedication to improving himself but also his teammates.”

The pair be part of Dylan Kuehl of the lads’s basketball group because the trio of representatives from Northern Michigan, and solely the second time in historical past that the ‘Cats have had three earn a Commissioner’s Award throughout one athletic season (winter 25/26 and winter 24/25). Ceglinski and Nolles turn out to be the sixth and seventh from the swim and dive program to earn the distinguished award, becoming a member of Camilla Carbone, Mia Strazny, and Ondrej Zach. Both Nolles and Carbone have been honored with the award twice. 

Kuehl turns into simply the second males’s basketball participant to earn the dignity, becoming a member of Tyler Kazmierkoski (07-08). 

Senior captain of the lads’s soccer program, Alessandro Scialanga, was honored with a GLIAC Commissioner’s Award of his personal for his efficiency within the fall this season, turning into the primary from the lads’s soccer program to earn the award. 

The full launch with all the winter 2025-26 recipients might be discovered at gliac.org. 

About the GLIAC Commissioner’s Award
The awards are bestowed after the autumn, winter, and spring athletic seasons to 6 feminine and 6 male student-athletes of junior, senior, or graduate scholar standing who excel each within the classroom and in competitors. All grade-point averages are based mostly on a 4.0 scale.
 

All-Time NMU GLIAC Commissioner’s Award Recipients

Winter 2025-26
Kalina Ceglinski, Women’s Swimming and Diving, 3.96 GPA
Leo Nolles, Men’s Swimming and Diving, 3.74 GPA
Dylan Kuehl, Men’s Basketball, 3.65

Fall 2025
Alessandro Scialanga, Men’s Soccer, 3.90 GPA

Winter 2024-25
Camilla Carbone, Women’s Swimming and Diving, 4.00 GPA
Mia Strazny, Women’s Swimming and Diving, 4.00 GPA
Leo Nolles, Men’s Swimming and Diving, 3.69 GPA

Fall 2024
Brooke Pietila, Women’s Soccer, 4.0 GPA
Hannah Kastamo, Women’s Soccer, 3.87 GPA

Spring 2024
Minnie Bittell, Lacrosse, 3.62 GPA

Winter 2023-24
Camilla Carbone, Women’s Swimming and Diving, 3.975 GPA
Makaylee Kuhn, Women’s Basketball, 4.00

Fall 2023
Brooke Pietila, Women’s Soccer, 3.91 GPA
Maria Storm, Women’s Soccer, 3.64 GPA

Spring 2023
Minnie Bittell, Lacrosse, 3.58 GPA

Winter 2022-23
Ondrej Zach, Men’s Swimming and Diving, 3.63 GPA

Winter 2018-19
Shayla Huebner, Track and Field, 3.92 GPA

Winter 2017-18
Shayla Huebner, Track and Field, 4.00 GPA

Fall 2017
Kameron Burmeister, Cross Country, 3.74 GPA
Madison Whitehead, Volleyball, 3.82 GPA

Winter 2014-15
Alyssa Colla, Women’s Basketball, 3.91 GPA

Fall 2009
Cassie Osiecki, Volleyball, 3.52

Winter 2007-08
Tyler Kazmierkoski, Men’s Basketball, 3.85 GPA