MIAC Release

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Seventeen Saint John's University baseball student-athletes earned 2024-25 Winter and Spring Academic All-MIAC recognition on Thursday, June 26.

For the fifth-straight academic year, SJU led the MIAC in male honorees with a total of 173 in 2024-25, followed by Gustavus Adolphus (149), Macalester (134), St. Olaf (133) and Carleton (110). The Johnnies had 85 fall honorees in cross country, football and soccer.

Those honored (listed alphabetically) include:

-Junior outfielder Owen Amrhein (Waconia, Minn.), an exercise and health science major (pre-physical therapy emphasis) with a 3.70 GPA;
-Senior first baseman Owen Best (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit), a psychology and sociology double-major with a 3.63 GPA;
-Senior pitcher Kade Bowar (Burnsville, Minn.), an accounting major with a 3.89 GPA;
-Senior outfielder Alex Broholm (Shakopee, Minn.), an exercise and health science major with a 3.69 GPA;
-Sophomore infielder Justin Brooks (Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park), an accounting major with a 3.65 GPA;
-Sophomore catcher Sam Garry (Mahtomedi, Minn.), an accounting major with a 3.58 GPA;
-Junior infielder Jackson Geislinger (Grove City, Minn./Eden Valley-Watkins), an exercise and health science major with a 3.52 GPA;
-Senior pitcher Connor Hartley (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Rosemount), an accounting major with a 3.75 GPA;
-Sophomore designated hitter Zach Helfmann (St. Louis Park, Minn.), a nursing major with a 3.66 GPA;
-Junior outfielder Brendan Hemr (Blaine, Minn./Centennial), a computer science major with a 3.69 GPA;
-Senior second baseman Ryan Janzen (St. Cloud, Minn./Cathedral), an accounting major with a 3.76 GPA;
-Junior pitcher Noah Jensen (St. Cloud, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice), an environmental studies major with a 3.98 GPA;
-Junior first baseman Collin Kray (Little Falls, Minn.), a chemistry major with a 4.0 GPA;
-Junior shortstop Reed Marquardt (Lindstrom, Minn./Chisago Lakes), an accounting and exercise and health science double-major with a 3.62 GPA;
-Junior pitcher Vinny Schleper (Shakopee, Minn.), an elementary education major with a 3.94 GPA;
-Sophomore outfielder Riley Schwellenbach (Woodbury, Minn./East Ridge), a data science major with a 3.97 GPA;
-Sophomore pitcher Carter Theisen (Rosemount, Minn.), a global business leadership major with a 3.96 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, student-athletes must be a member of a MIAC-sponsored, varsity team and be academically and athletically eligible. The student-athlete must have utilized a season of participation (per NCAA and MIAC definitions) and have remained on the sports roster through the conclusion of the sports season.

The Academic All-MIAC honor is the third for Bowar, Broholm, Hartley and Janzen, and the second for Amrhein, Geislinger, Hemr, Jensen, Kray, Marquardt and Schleper.

Five of the honorees – Hartley, Hemr, Jansen, Schwellenbach and Theisen -  were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District baseball team June 3.

Kray earned the 2025 MIAC Elite 22 Award for baseball, which is given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA among those who competed in the four-team MIAC Tournament.

SJU finished third in the MIAC with a 14-6 record (25-16 overall) and made its 15th-consecutive appearance in the MIAC Tournament (17th overall) this spring.