MINNEAPOLIS -- Six Augsburg University student-athletes were named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Women's At-Large Team, it was announced this week.
 
For the second straight year, women's hockey athletes Nora Stepan (SR, Apple Valley, Minn./Eastview HS) and Emily Schoeberl (SR, Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS) earned Academic All-District honors, joined by first-time honorees Kate Haug (SR, Roseville, Minn./Roseville HS) and Tenley Stewart (SR, Esko, Minn./Esko HS). In addition, women's wrestler Paige Haaf (SO, St. Croix Falls, Wis./St. Croix Falls HS) and women's lacrosse player Leila Klym (JR, Lakeville, Minn./Apple Valley HS) earned Academic All-District honors for the first time. Stepan will advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot, which will be voted on by CSC members and announced on July 7.

The honor is the latest for Stepan, who was named as a CSC Academic All-America second-team honoree last season. A biochemistry major with a 3.99 grade-point average, Stepan has earned American Hockey Coaches Association All-American Scholar honors three times, and will earn her third Academic All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honor this spring.

Stepan earned All-America West Region second-team honors from both the AHCA and from DIIIHockeyNews.com this season, both for the second straight year. Stepan was named MIAC Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight year, becoming just the third Auggie women's hockey player and 27th MIAC women's hockey player to earn All-MIAC honors all four years of their careers. 

Stepan led all Auggies this season with 17 goals and 15 assists for 32 points, a goal total that led the MIAC and was most among all NCAA Division III defenders nationally. Stepan played in a school-record-tying 109 games in her collegiate career, with 49 goals and 50 assists for 99 career points, a plus-89 plus-minus rating, 13 power-play goals and 13 game-winning goals. She finished her career tied for fourth in school history in career points, tied for fifth in goals scored, tied for second in game-winning goals, third in power-play goals, and tied for fifth in assists. Her plus-89 plus-minus rating is second-best in school history.

An exercise science major with a 4.00 GPA, Schoeberl has earned AHCA All-American Scholar honors three times, and will earn her third Academic All-MIAC honor this spring. A forward, Schoeberl finished her senior season with four goals and two assists for six points, with one game-winning goal and a plus-eight plus-minus rating. She claimed her first career hat trick in Augsburg's 6-0 victory over St. Catherine on Feb. 7.

In her 108-game collegiate career, Schoeberl finished with 22 goals and 24 points for 46 points, with three power-play goals, a shorthanded goal, five game-winning goals and a plus-27 career plus-minus rating.

An elementary education-mathematics major with a 3.83 GPA, Haaf earned her second career Scholar All-America honor from the National Wrestling Coaches Association in 2025-26, with her first coming as an athlete at Wisconsin-Oshkosh last season.

A 131-pound wrestler for the Auggies, Haaf finished 13-13 in the 2025-26 season with nine pins and a technical fall at 131 pounds, and is 18-26 with 14 pins and a technical fall in her collegiate career.

A marketing major with a 3.94 GPA, Haug earned her first career All-MIAC honor in women's hockey in 2025-26 with a career-best season, scoring 11 goals with nine assists for 20 points, ranking third on the team in goals scored and fourth in points. She contributed two power-play goals and two game-winning goals, with a plus-10 plus-minus rating. Haug had a goal or assist in 14 of her 26 games played this season, with four multi-point games.

A forward who played her first two seasons at Division I St. Thomas, Haug has played in 89 games in her collegiate career, with 14 goals and 25 assists for 39 points, two power-play goals, three game-winning goals and a plus-14 plus-minus rating. She has 13 goals and 20 assists for 33 points and a plus-26 plus-minus rating in 55 Augsburg games over the past two campaigns. She was an AHCA All-American Scholar last season.

An exercise science major with a 3.52 GPA, Klym earned Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Scholastic Honor Roll honors in women's lacrose in 2025 and Midwest Lacrosse Conference All-Academic Team honors in 2024. She was an All-Midwest Lacrosse Conference Honorable Mention honoree in 2024.

Playing in all 12 games as a midfielder for the Auggies in 2026, Klym finished with nine goals and an assist for 10 points, adding 13 ground balls, seven caused turnovers and a team-leading 24 draw controls. In 37 career games as an Auggie, Klym now has 21 goals and four assists for 25 career points, with 44 ground balls, 21 caused turnovers and 54 draw controls.

A mathematics and data science major with a 4.00 GPA, Stewart is a three-time AHCA All-American Scholar in women's hockey and will earn her third Academic All-MIAC honor this spring. She earned All-MIAC Honorable Mention honors this season and was an All-MIAC honoree in 2023-24.

Stewart played in all 27 games on defense in her senior season, scoring two goals with two assists for four points, a power-play goal and two game-winning goals. Playing in a school-record-tying 109 career games, Stewart scored seven goals with 28 assists for 35 points in her career, with four power-play goals, four game-winning goals, 116 blocked shots and a plus-five plus-minus rating.
 
The CSC Academic All-District team is part of the CSC Academic All-America program. The At-Large program covers student-athletes in 13 NCAA women's sports, including Augsburg sports golf, ice hockey, lacrosse and wrestling. Nominated by athletic communication professionals at their schools, student-athletes must have a grade-point average above 3.50 (4.0 scale) and have outstanding athletic credentials. Schools are limited to nominate six student-athletes per-gender for the At-Large ballot. Select Academic All-District honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America ballot.

The Division III Academic All-America program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the Division III Academic All-America teams program.