Eight Spiders Named to CSC Academic All-District At Large Team

RICHMOND, Va. – Eight Spider student-athletes have been named to the 2026 CSC Academic All-District At Large Team, as chosen by College Sports Communicators on June 16. This honor acknowledges the nation’s high student-athletes for his or her mixed performances on the sphere and within the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America program individually acknowledges honorees in 4 divisions and considers Academic All-District honorees for development to the CSC Academic All-America poll.

Representing Richmond was subject hockey’s Clara Larripa, girls’s golf’s Katie Magner, males’s golf’s Jack LaPiana and Parker Mellinger, girls’s lacrosse’s Rileigh Meyer, in addition to males’s lacrosse’s Gavin Creo, Brayden Penafeather-Stevenson and Joe Sheridan.

Larripa, a enterprise administration main, completed the 2025 season with 48 factors on a career-high 20 objectives and eight assists to steer the sphere hockey program to its first Atlantic 10 Conference common season title since 2015. The NFHCA All-American Third Team and NFHCA All-Region honoree completed the season ranked within the top-10 within the nation averaging a objective per recreation and a couple of.40 factors per recreation whereas gathering her third straight Atlantic 10 All-First Team honors and second-straight A-10 All-Academic Team accolades.

Magner, a enterprise administration main was named as an All-Atlantic 10 choice this season after she tied for fifth at A-10 Women’s Golf Championship at 18-over par (234) and helped UR to its second straight A-10 workforce title. Magner registered her first profession top-10 end by putting fourth within the season-opening Tribe Invitational with a career-low 7-over 223. The sophomore additionally helped Richmond to a 31-stroke win on the occasion, the most important margin of victory in program historical past.

 

LaPiana, a enterprise administration main, completed the season with a 72.45 season stroke common which ranks third on workforce and Tenth-lowest in program historical past. The junior collected 5 top-20 finishes tied for second most on workforce and helped UR to its first Atlantic 10 title since 2017. 

 

Moellinger, a biology main, felped UR to its first A-10 title since 2017, together with back-to-back wins through the spring on the Loyola Intercollegiate and Donald Ross Collegiate Classic because the workforce shot 34-under par at Loyola Intercollegiate, the bottom event rating in program historical past. Moellinger appeared in 10 occasions, averaging 74.29 strokes over 28 rounds. He registered first profession top-10 end with an Eighth-place end on the Shepherd’s Rock Individual in September.

 

Part of the ladies’s lacrosse midfield unit, Meyer tallied 20 factors on 17 objectives and three assists. She additionally collected 24 draw controls, 19 floor balls and precipitated two turnovers. Meyer additionally earned Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honors and earned A-10 All-Academic accolades.

Creo, a key starter on the assault for the lads’s lacrosse program, completed the 2026 season with 48 factors on 37 objectives and 11 assists and 19 floor balls as he helped UR to a second-straight Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. The enterprise administration main collected A-10 First Team and All-Academic honors, in addition to USA Lacrosse and USILA Lacrosse Third Team All-America honors and Inside Lacrosse All-America Honorable Mention accolades in his junior season.

 

Penafeather-Stevenson, a enterprise administration main, made an impression as a season-long starter for the lads’s lacrosse program in 2026. The junior recorded 5 objectives and an help for six factors, collected 51 floor balls and added 21 precipitated turnovers. The long-stick midfielder was named to the Atlantic 10 First Team and A-10 All-Academic Team in addition to collected All-America Honorable Mention accolades from USA Lacrosse and USILA Lacrosse.

 

Sheridan, a biochemistry and molecular biology main, completed his senior workforce captain marketing campaign with 41 factors on 31 objectives and 10 assists, 13 floor balls and 5 precipitated turnovers. The midfielder helped UR to a second-straight Atlantic 10 Championship and a NCAA event internet hosting bid whereas turning into the 11^th student-athlete in UR males’s lacrosse program historical past to document 100 profession factors. A Tewaaraton Watch checklist honoree, Sheridan collected A-10 Midfielder of the Year, A-10 First Team, A-10 All-Academic and A-10 All-Championship accolades. He additionally tallied USA Lacrosse, USILA Lacrosse and Inside Lacrosse Second Team All-America honors for his efforts on the sphere.