General | 4/7/2026 11:00:00 AM
LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference has announced its Winter Academic All-Conference Teams for 2025-26. Gannon University has 10 student-athletes who earned the honor during the winter sports seasons.
In its inaugural year, the awards program was created to increase academic recognition for high-achieving student-athletes – which was a priority for the Conference's membership highlighted in its most recent strategic plan. The Academic All-Conference teams have been adopted with the following requirements:
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Student-athletes must have met a minimum of participation requirements. For team sport selections, this includes playing in 70% of a team's contests (through the conference championship date.) For individual sports, there are unique participation requirements that are detailed in this document.
Recognition is based solely on meeting the above criteria. GPAs were calculated through the previous completed semester (Fall 2025).
Gannon's list of honorees is below:
Women's Basketball
Tori Mayes (Lake City, Pa./Cathedral Prep)
Mia Slater (Canberra, Australia/Canberra Grammar School)
Men's Swimming
Brandon Hebert (Damascus, Md./Damascus)
Will Retsch (Allison Park, Pa./Hampton)
Ben Williams (Findlay, Ohio/Findlay)
Women's Swimming
Isabella Dietz (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny)
Haley Griffin (Wheatfield, N.Y./Mount St. Mary Academy)
Emily Hedges (Peachtree Corners, Ga./St Pius X Catholic)
Hannah Jacobs (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Libby Kibler (Attica, N.Y./Attica Senior)
In total, 121 student-athletes across all 17 PSAC institutions qualified for the Winter 2025-26 PSAC Academic All-Conference Teams.
