WESTERVILLE, Ohio – On Thursday morning, the Ohio Athletic Conference announced the 2022 Academic All-Conference for the spring sports season. Capital University boasted 49 selections across 10 sports. 

To be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must be of sophomore status or higher, maintain varsity status within their team, and maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher. 

The OAC Champion women's lacrosse team totaled seven selections. Graduate Brooke Delara, senior Molly Searles, juniors Dylan Smith, Avery Hart, and Skyla Caito, as well as sophomores Abigail Midnight and Julia Foresi made up the Capital contingent. This is the third selection for Delara and the second for Smith. For Searles, Hart, Caito, Midnight, and Foresi, it was their first selection.

On the men's side of lacrosse, graduate Chase Snyder, senior Jack Conley, and sophomores Ian Michaud and Mikey Collins were honored. It is the third selection for Conley and the first for Snyder, Michaud, and Collins.

Earning the award on the baseball team were seniors Cole Callaghan, Bryant Caporale, Kurt Maxwell, and Brendan Stinson, juniors Spencer Knight and Brennon Newell, and sophomores Evan Rottman and Cooper Walker. This is the third selection for Callaghan, Caporale, and Maxwell. It is the second selection for Stinson, Knight, and Newell. For Rottman and Walker it was their first selection.

The honorees on the softball team were juniors Lexie Leggett , Liz Stonerock, Katelyn Wilhelm, and Tiffany Zuelzke, as well as sophomore Maddie McKinniss. This is the second selection for Leggett and Zuelzke, and the first selection for Stonerock, Wilhelm, and McKinniss.

On the men's side of the golf team senior Andrew Simpson, juniors Vince Daher, Angelo Donato, Colin Frimel, and Shane Murphy, as well as sophomores Jack Curtis and Ben Satterthwaite were honored. It is the second selection for Daher, Donato, Frimel, and Murphy, and the first for Simpson, Curtis, and Satterthwaite.

Three were honored from the women's side of the golf team, those being junior Reagan Johnson and sophomores Hannah Frey and Mariah Costamire. Johnson's selection goes down as her second. It was the first selection for Frey and Costamire.

In terms of track and field, junior Andy Fullmer, and sophomores Aidan Cunningham, Daniel Hiser, Sam Siedel, and Donovan Slattery were selected from the men's squad. It is Fullmer's second selection and the first for Cunningham, Hiser, Siedel, and Slattery.

From the women's track and field squad came senior Heather Fryman, junior Olivia Humes, and Vanasdale. This was the first selection for each.

For men's tennis, senior Sulimaan Priest and junior Jack Schwarz were selected. It is Schwarz's second selection and Priest's first.

Women's tennis had five honorees as graduate student Kelli Wright-Lovell, seniors Karen Kanke, Maria Pickerill, and Hayley Singleton, as well as sophomore Josie Nichols were selected. It is the third selection for Kanke and the first for Wright-Lovell, Pickerill, Singleton, and Nichols.

These 49 student-athletes join the 38 from the fall and nine from the winter to have earned Academic All-OAC recognition this academic year.