MANHATTAN, Kan. – Okay-State had 16 student-athletes earn the Big 12 Conference’s highest tutorial honor, the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, because it was introduced on Tuesday (June 30).
The 16 recipients embody 5 student-athletes from the boys’s and ladies’s observe and discipline program,
Pierson Carlisle,
Kayla Goodwin,
Aaliyah Lindsay,
Taylor Mayo and
Delaney Wright, three Wildcats from each the soccer,
Will Anciaux,
Jet Dineen and
Jacob Knuth, and soccer groups,
Khaliana Garrett,
Andra Mohler and
Sophie Simmons, in addition to two girls’s rowers,
Grace Hall and
Emily Northcutt, and
Ethan Giesbrecht (baseball),
Taryn Sides (girls’s basketball) and
Julia Ballester (girls’s golf).
Eight of those athletes, Anciaux, Dineen, Goodwin, Hall, Lindsay, Mayo, Mohler and Sides, additionally earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team accolades for the 2025-26 season.
As a protracted jumper, Lindsay was named a First-Team All-American on the NCAA Outdoor Championship together with her 8
th place end of 6.44m (21′ 1.5″). On the court docket, Sides, a local of Phillipsburg, Kan., was a 2025-26 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes should have lettered no less than as soon as of their profession whereas sustaining residence at their establishment for no less than one tutorial 12 months. The honoree, which may solely be acknowledged as soon as, ought to have 90 hours of earned credit score with a cumulative grade-point common of three.80 on the time of the nomination.
The Spring Academic All-Big 12 Team was additionally introduced with 87 Okay-State athletes named, together with 38 freshmen named to the Rookie Team. The girls’s rowing crew leads the athletic division with 22 honors, the baseball and ladies’s observe and discipline groups tied with 19 every. The girls’s observe crew had probably the most rookie honors with 10, adopted by six from the rowing and males’s observe groups.
16 Wildcats have been nominated with a 4.00 GPA together with, baseball’s Cohen Feser, six girls’s rowers, Sylvia Cunningham, Grace Hall, Lorelei Harris, Annika Janss, Leah Roane and Izzy Ross and 9 athletes from the boys’s and ladies’s observe and discipline groups, Oskars Bambals, Emil Uhlin, Tavon Underwood, Cecilia Fisher, Kayla Goodwin, Ariana Jackson, Taylor Mayo, Bree Newport and Alexa Rios.
On the rookie crew, 10 athletes earned a 4.00 GPA, rowing’s Gabbie Forsythe, Martaa Chogsomjav and Addison Renfro from girls’s tennis and Logan Beckman, Bree Allen, Emma Baum, Delaney Brinker, Reese Brownlee, Payton Fink and Hanna Keltner from the observe and discipline groups.
The award is in reminiscence of Lage, who served because the Oklahoma State college athletics consultant with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 till his demise in 2007. He was the chairman on three events (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003-04). Lage had been a member of the Oklahoma State household since 1966, when he joined the College of Business Administration as an assistant professor. During his tenure at OSU, he served because the director of graduate research within the division of economics (1974-77), head of the division of economics and finance (1978-84), director of the OSU Center for International Trade and Development (1985-87), and affiliate dean for analysis and graduate packages within the school of enterprise administration (1997-2004).
2025-26 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipients Ethan Giesbrecht, RJr., Baseball, Agronomy
Taryn Sides, Jr., Women’s Basketball, Integrative Human Sciences
Will Anciaux, So., Football, Kinesiology
Jet Dineen, Jr., Football, Communication Studies
Jacob Knuth, Jr., Football
Julia Ballester, Jr., Women’s Golf, Kinesiology
Grace Hall, Sr., Rowing, Kinesiology
Emily Northcutt, Sr., Rowing, Human Development & Family Science
Khaliana Garrett, Sr., Soccer, Biomedical Engineering
Andra Mohler, Sr., Soccer, Kinesiology
Sophie Simmons, Sr., Soccer, Finance
Pierson Carlisle, Jr., Men’s Track & Field, Psychology
Kayla Goodwin, Gr., Women’s Track & Field, Masters- Business Administration
Aaliyah Lindsay, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Human Sciences
Taylor Mayo, Jr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Physiology
Delaney Wright, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Accounting
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