2021 IWLCA ACADEMIC HONOR SQUADS
2021 IWLCA DIVISION III ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL

MINNEAPOLIS -- For the sixth time in program history, the Augsburg University women's lacrosse team has earned Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Academic Honor Squad honors, with five Auggies earning individual IWLCA Division III Academic Honor Roll honors, it was announced this week.

To receive the team honor, women's lacrosse squads must maintain a 3.0 or higher team grade-point average for the 2017-18 academic year. A total of 319 women's lacrosse teams across all three NCAA divisions and the NAIA earned the team academic award. This year's Augsburg squad claimed a 3.60 cumulative team GPA. Augsburg has earned the academic honor in six of its eight seasons as a varsity program -- 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.

For individual Academic Honor Roll honors, student-athletes must be a junior, senior or graduate student with a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or better. The five Auggies to earn the award are the most in a single season in program history, and bring to 13 the total number of Auggies who have earned the honor since the program started in 2014.

Earning individual Academic Honor Roll honors for Augsburg: Annabelle Arns (JR, Monticello, Minn./Monticello HS), Alex Davis (JR, St. Paul, Minn./Highland Park HS), McKenna Ellena (SR, Wales, Wis./Kettle Moraine HS), Annika Hegrenes (SR, Maplewood, Minn./Concordia Academy HS) and Maddie Seykora (SR, Owatonna, Minn./Owatonna HS). All also earned Midwest Women's Lacrosse All-Academic honors earlier this spring. The IWLCA honor is the second for Hegrenes, while it is the first honor for the remaining four Auggies.

Arns is a mathematics/computer science major with a 3.72 GPA, Davis is a business management major with a 3.69 GPA, Ellena is a biology major with a 3.56 GPA, Hegrenes is a mathematics major (MBA in data analytics) with a 3.60 GPA, and Seykora is a management information systems/management major with a 3.68 GPA.

Of the 15 players on the Augsburg women's lacrosse squad in 2021, 12 had cumulative GPAs of 3.30 or greater, earning MWLC All-Academic honors. Eleven Auggies had GPAs of 3.50 or better.

Under eighth-year coach Kathryn Knippenberg, Augsburg finished 5-6 overall and 5-1 in MWLC play in 2021, qualifying for the MWLC postseason playoffs for the fifth. In Augsburg's eight years of women's lacrosse, the Auggies are 65-49 overall, including a 40-12 record in its six seasons of MWLC play.