MIAC Release

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Seven Saint John's University hockey student-athletes received 2019-20 Winter and Spring Academic All-MIAC honors on Tuesday, June 30.

Those honored (listed alphabetically) include:

-Junior goaltender Mac Berglove (Elk River, Minn.), an integrative science major with a 3.59 GPA;
-Junior defenseman Jake Dittel (St. Paul, Minn.), an economics major with a 3.73 GPA;
-Junior defenseman Troy Dobbs (Lancaster, N.Y.), an economics and political science double-major with a 3.64;
-Sophomore forward Tanner Dufault (Kasson, Minn.), a nursing major with a 3.79 GPA;
-Sophomore forward Russell Harren (Wasilla, Alaska), a biochemistry major with a 3.90 GPA;
-Junior forward Ryan Kero (Hermantown, Minn.), an accounting and economics double-major with a 3.67 GPA;
-Sophomore forward Davis Kirkendall (Hamel, Minn.), a global business leadership major with a 3.72 GPA.

Student-athletes must be a sophomore, junior or senior academically with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 on a 4.00 scale to qualify for Academic All-MIAC recognition. Transfers, like freshmen, must complete a full academic year to be eligible the following season. Athletically, hockey student-athletes must compete in 50 percent of their team's varsity, regular-season contests. Goaltenders must play in one-third (33.3 percent) of their team's total minutes played for the regular season.

The Academic All-MIAC honor is the second consecutive for Dittel, Dobbs, Dufault and Kero. 

An environmental studies major with a 3.97 GPA, sophomore forward Braden Altena (St. Cloud, Minn.) missed the athletic requirement for Academic All-MIAC recognition by one regular-season game (12 of 25).

The Johnnies went 8-2 over the final 10 conference games (6-0 on the road) to win their ninth MIAC regular-season championship with a 9-3-4 record (12-9-5 overall) in 2019-20.