The Lee University women's lacrosse team and the men and women's golf teams had eight athletes named to the 2024-25 Academic All-District Teams for their excellence in the classroom. The 2025 Academic All-District® At Large Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field, course, and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
Banthita Phoncharatkun and Olivia Ireland were recognized from women's golf.
Callie Curtis, Noelle Harrington, Makenna Luzier, and Hannah Nee from women's lacrosse were recognized. Mitchell Strickland and Drew Zielinski from men's golf also earned all district honors.
Phoncharatkun graduated with a 3.598 GPA in business management and Ireland has a 3.973 GPA in finance. Zielinksihas a 3.66 GPA in health science while Strickland has a 3.579 GPA in business. Curtis has a 3.736 in elementary education and Harrington has a 3.68 GPA in biology. Luzier graduated with a 3.963 GPA in biology while Nee graduated with a 3.704 in nursing.
For golf, eligible nominees must be in the lineup for 70 percent of an institution's team scoring events or in the lineup at the conference championship tournament. For lacrosse, eligible nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played or must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's games.
Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA. The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.
The CSC Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed at the links above.
Academic All-District® honorees were considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. Student-athletes selected as CSC Academic All-America® finalists are denoted with an asterisk and will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced June 24, 2025.
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.