MIAC Release

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Three Saint John's University golf student-athletes earned 2024-25 Winter and Spring Academic All-MIAC honors 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 Tim Fultz (Stillwater, Minn./Stillwater Area), a global business leadership major with a 3.55 GPA;
-Senior Will Gruidl (Edina, Minn./Minnehaha Academy), a global business leadership major with a 3.80 GPA;
-Senior Cole Proctor (Brainerd, Minn.), an accounting major with a 3.93 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 Gruidl and Proctor, and the first for Fultz, who was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District at-large team June 17.

Fultz earned the 2024-25 MIAC Elite 22 Award for golf, which is given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA among those who competed finished in the top 10 at the MIAC Championship in October.

The Johnnie golf team tied for second at the MIAC Championships and recorded its fourth-best scoring average in program history – a 296.0 in 24 rounds – this season. Senior Andrew Boemer (Eagan, Minn./St. Thomas Academy) became the second Johnnie to qualify as an individual to the NCAA Division III Championships and the first since 2015 (Ryan Gallagher '17) in May.