Grizzly Teams & Student-Athletes Earn NJCAA All-Academic Honors

El Dorado, Kan. – The National Junior College Athletic Association announced its 2024-2025 NJCAA All-Academic Award winners and Butler saw a host of student-athletes land honors.

Each year, the NJCAA recognizes student-athletes and teams for their dedication in the classroom on the NJCAA All-Academic Teams. To receive the honor, student-athletes must achieve at least a 3.6 GPA. First team honors go to student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA, second team honors to student-athletes with a 3.8-3.99 GPA, and third team honors to student-athletes with a 3.6-3.79 GPA. Individual teams had to earn at least a 3.0 GPA or higher to be recognized.

Butler had a total of 59 student-athletes earn NJCAA All-Academic honors and 9 Grizzly teams also earned the honor of All-Academic. The following teams earned recognition: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's track & field, women's soccer, softball, and volleyball.

There were a total of 13,915 student-athletes and 1,347 teams that received NJCAA All-Academic honors.

Below is the list of Grizzly student-athletes that received NJCAA All-Academic honors for the 2024-25 school year.

NJCAA All-Academic Honors

First Team 

Oluwapo Adeoye (Men's Basketball)

Makenzie Galliart (Women's Basketball)

Karly Girty (Volleyball)

Jarren Hay (Baseball)

Graci Hock (Softball)

Awa Jawara (Women's Basketball)

Jenna Jobe (Softball)

Jack Lemasters (Baseball)

Claire Lopez (Softball)

Alexa Marshall (Women's Cross Country, Track & Field)

Jacob Marshall (Baseball)

Macy McKissick (Women's Soccer)

Jordan Morris (Football)

Madison Nightingale (Softball)

Kaleb Nye (Baseball)

Chloe Odle (Softball)

Emeka Opurum (Men's Basketball)

Junior Ovalle Beato (Baseball)

Dayton Pelfry (Baseball)

Eva Preister (Women's Soccer)

Veronica Rangel (Volleyball)

Cooper Rasmussen (Baseball)

Audrey Rumsey (Softball)

Kory Schoenfeld (Softball)

Gavin Willet (Baseball)

Keegan Yarick (Women's Basketball)

Second Team 

Alex Coester (Baseball)

Alivia Darbe (Softball)

Elizabeth Randall (Softball)

Jackson Ellison (Baseball)

Braylan Ford (Football)

Kayla Hermreck (Volleyball)

Shane Holman (Baseball)

Taelyn Jones (Volleyball)

Cannon McCormack (Football)

Cory Muehler (Men's Basketball)

Sophia Neihouse (Volleyball)

Kage Ralstin (Baseball)

Bridget Sherman (Women's Soccer)

Ashley Singhateh (Women's Basketball)

Alison Unruh (Women's Cross Country, Track & Field)

Kainen White (Football)

Maxwell White (Baseball)

Third Team 

Addyson Ewing (Softball)

Thomas Gibbs (Baseball)

Elizabeth Hernandez (Cross Country, Track & Field)

Cooper Jay (Football)

Caylee Mann (Softball)

Saki Matsumoto (Women's Soccer)

Moriah Matthias (Volleyball)

Zothile Mbhamali (Women's Cross Country)

Rashad McCormick (Men's Basketball)

Anja Milosevic (Volleyball)

Krysten Moran (Softball)

Isabel Sandoval (Women's Soccer)

Jackson Stine (Baseball)

Emilee Stofferahn (Softball)

Brady Todd (Baseball)

Levi Wittenberg (Football)

Jordan Yearby (Baseball)