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Andreas Fatschel of Carnegie Mellon, Kami Jones of Hardin-Simmons Headline CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Soccer Teams
 

AUSTIN, Texas – Senior defender Andreas Fatschel of Carnegie Mellon and junior forward Kami Jones of Hardin-Simmons headline the 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Men’s and Women’s Division III Soccer teams selected by College Sports Information Directors of America. Fatschel and Jones were selected as the men’s and women’s Academic All-America® of the Year, respectively.
 
Fatschel, a Seven Fields, Pennsylvania native, is one of nine men to earn repeat Academic All-America® honors as he earns his second straight first team accolade. Fatschel has a 3.97 G.P.A. as a mechanical and biomedical engineering major. This season, he has helped the Tartans to a 13-4-2 overall record and first round win in the NCAA Tournament. His lone goal this season, against Westminster (Pa.) on September 16, was the game-winner.
 
Jones, a biochemistry/molecular biology major from Comfort, Texas, was named as the American Southwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year for the second straight year. The junior led Hardin-Simmons to a 19-1 record in the regular season with the Cowgirls advancing into the NCAA Tournament as the ASC champions. Jones has 23 goals and 16 assists for 62 points as H-SU has won 19 straight games since starting the year with a 1-0 home loss to Pacific Lutheran.
 
The CoSIDA Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2016-17 Division III Academic All-America® teams program.
 
CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Men’s Soccer Team
 
Of the nine men repeating as Academic All-America® honorees, four were named to the first team, four to the second team, and one to the third team.
 
Sam Konstanty, from Texas-Dallas, Nick Norman from Ohio Wesleyan and Chapman’s Marco Saglimbeni join Fatschel on the first team. Konstanty, like Norman a defender, was a first team honoree in 2015 with Norman and Saglimbeni, a midfielder, picked to the second team.
 
Goalkeeper Felix Lindeberg, from Plymouth State and forward Drew Demich, from Hood, earn second team honors this fall after being first team selections in 2015. Midfielder Richard Lander, from Alfred, matches his second team selection from last year with one this fall and defender Ryan Stuntz, from MIT, moves up to the second team after earning third team accolades last year. The final men’s repeat pick, Nick Costelloe from the College of New Jersey, was again picked to the third team.
 
Konstanty and Norman are the only two men with perfect 4.0 G.P.A.s on the 33-member team. Konstanty is a biomedical engineering major from Missouri City, Texas, and Norman is a management economics major from Cincinnati, Ohio.
 
Saglimbeni, from San Jose, California, has a 3.95 G.P.A. as a biological sciences major. Lindeberg, from Stockholm, Sweden, has a 3.98 G.P.A. as a biology major with Demich, from Jefferson, Maryland, posting 3.46 G.P.A. as a mathematics major. Lander has a 3.94 G.P.A. as a mechanical engineering major and hails from Narrowsburg, New York, while Stuntz has a 3.92 G.P.A. as a computer science major and calls Wellesley, Massachusetts home.
Todd Whitaker (Trinity (Texas)), Galen Brennan (Oberlin), Steven Collins (RPI), Garrett Pochop (Simpson (Iowa)), Braden Andryk (Milwaukee Engineering), Nick Kapetanos (Benedictine (Ill.)) and Nick Rutherford (Plymouth State) round out the men’s first team.
 
Oberlin, Plymouth State and Johns Hopkins all have two honorees on the men’s Academic All-America® teams. The Academic All-America® men’s first team maintained a 3.88 G.P.A. and had a 3.83 G.P.A. overall.
 
CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Women’s Soccer Team
 
On the women’s side, five of the eight repeat selections were picked to the first team. Defenders Kayla Deckert and Hannah Lohmeier, from Messiah and Augustana (Ill.), respectively, match their first team honors from 2015. William Smith’s Katherine Campbell and Hardin-Simmons’ Kristen Parrish both move up from second team while Berry’s Maggie Midkiff makes the jump to first team after earning third team accolades last year.
 
Goalkeeper Takara Mitsui, from Pacific Lutheran, adds a second team honor this year to her third team selection from 2015. Messiah’s Marisa Weaver earns a second consecutive second team accolade while Illinois Wesleyan’s Skyler Tomko does the same on the third team.
 
Jones, her H-SU teammate Parrish and Campbell lead a group of seven women with at least a 4.0 G.P.A. Campbell, from Hampton, New Jersey, has the highest G.P.A. in the group with a 4.17 as a mathematics/economics major. Parrish, from Granbury, Texas, and a biology major, along with Savannah Castles, from Piedmont College, give the women four first team honorees with a perfect G.P.A. Castles is a Helen, Georgia native and an exercise and sport science major.
 
Slingerlands, New York native Lauren Kogelmann, has a 4.02 G.P.A. in the same mathematics/economics major as Campbell, her William Smith teammate. Alyssa Logan, from Carmel, Indiana and Spalding University, is a natural science and pre-physical therapy major and joins Kogelmann on the second team.
 
The remaining 4.0 G.P.A. comes on the third team with Vassar’s Rebecca Andrews anchoring that squad. She is a cognitive science major from Los Altos, California.
 
Deckert has a 3.97 G.P.A. as an education major and comes to Messiah from West Simsbury, Connecticut. Lohmeier hails from Waunakee, Wisconsin and has a 3.99 G.P.A. as a biochemistry major. Midkiff, from Macon, Georgia, boasts a 3.89 G.P.A. in Berry’s environmental science program.
 
Mitsui, Weaver and Tomko are all nursing majors with Mitsui posting a 3.75 G.P.A., Weaver at 3.81 and Tomko at 3.95. Mitsui is a Lynwood, Washington native, Weaver is from Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Tomko came to IWU from Lisle, Illinois.
 
Lizzy Crist (Washington (Mo.)), Laura Felix (Thomas More), Sammy Bost (Lebanon Valley) and Elizabeth Perkins (Hope) complete the women’s first team.
 
William Smith leads the women with four student-athletes honored, while Franklin and Trinity (Texas) have three each and Messiah has two.
 
The women’s Academic All-America® first team had a 3.98 average G.P.A. and 3.90 G.P.A. overall.
 
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University (jeff.schwartz@ndsu.edu)                            (701) 231-8332
Academic All-America® Co-Chair for Publicity/Communications
           
Scott Musa, Shenandoah University (smusa@su.edu)                                                         (540) 665-5417
Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity