College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced the 2025-26 Academic All-District® Men's and Women's At-Large Teams on Tuesday and 12 Foresters representing six different sports were among the honorees.
To be eligible for nomination, student-athletes maintain at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale at their current institution and be at least a sophomore academically and athletically. Hockey and lacrosse players also must compete in at least 90 percent or start two-thirds of their team's games. Golfers must be in the lineup for 75 percent of an institution's team scoring events or compete at the conference championship tournament.
The Forester honorees on the men's side were hockey players
Chase Freiermuth,
Andrew Nieusma,
Colin Bella, and
Logan Kittleson; lacrosse player
Carson Pagel, and golfer
Tyler Schick. The six women were golfers
Alijah Campbell and
Gabrielle Krebs, hockey players
Victoria Liu and
Jasmine Kohl, lacrosse player
Daulath Khan, and
Ella Maher, who met the criteria in both hockey and lacrosse.
All four men's hockey players are recent graduates of the College, two-time Northern Collegiate Hockey Association honorees, and inductees into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. Kittleson was the team's Most Valuable Player this year and leads the group with 65 career points on 16 goals and 49 assists. Bella, a member of the 2023 NCHA All-Freshman Team, scored 44 goals and added 20 assists and ranks among the top five in team history with 16 power play scores and seven game-winners. Freiermuth was the Foresters' MVP as a sophomore and finished with 28 goals and 25 assists. Nieusma, the 2026 Peter Taylor Award recipient, is the only defenseman in the quartet and had three goals and eight assists. All four were finance majors with a concentration in accounting for Nieusma and economics for Kittleson.
Pagel led Lake Forest with 17 assists and 45 points as a junior this spring. The double-major in computer science and finance was a member of the Midwest Lacrosse Conference All-Academic Team in 2024, a Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Scholar-Athlete in 2025, and a Chi Alpha Sigma inductee in 2026. His performance on the field earned him Second Team All-MLC honors in 2024 and he was an Honorable Mention All-NACC selection this spring. Pagel ranks 10th in team history with 56 career goals, fifth with 47 assists, and seventh with 103 points.
Schick's list of academic awards includes St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Academic accolades and Cobalt Golf All-American Scholar honors from the Golf Coaches Association of America each of the last two seasons, as well as induction into Chi Alpha Sigma. He was First Team All-SLIAC and the SLIAC Newcomer of the Year in 2024 before earning Second Team All-SLIAC status each of the last two seasons. Schick is majoring in business with a management concentration and owns the second-lowest career scoring average (75.64) in program history.
The three women's hockey players on the list were junior forwards in 2025-26, Chi Alpha Sigma inductees, and NCHA All-Academic Team honorees. Liu is majoring in business with a concentration in marketing, Kohl is a double-major in neuroscience and psychology, and Maher is pursuing a degree in biology and Spanish. Maher has also been a team captain each of the last two years. Their career point totals are similar with Kohl having 47 on 17 goals and 30 assists, Liu tallying 45 on 11 goals and 34 assists, and Maher entering her final season with 42 on 23 scores and 19 assists.
Maher's accolades in lacrosse include a First Team All-MLC selection in 2024 and Second Team All-NACC honors this spring. Her 81 career points, 62 goals, 19 assists, 101 ground balls, 64 caused turnovers, and 135 draw controls are all among the top 10 totals in team annals. Khan, a senior in 2026, is also one of the program's best in multiple categories with 106 points, 63 goals, 43 assists, and 58 draw controls. She joined Maher with MLC All-Academic accolades in 2024, NACC Scholar-Athlete standing in 2025, and Honorable Mention All-NACC distinction in 2026 and was also a Chi Alpha Sigma inductee and a member of the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Honor Roll in 2025.
Krebs is inarguably the College's most accomplished women's golfer with four of the program's lowest single-season scoring average and the best career mark at 80.54. The four-time team MVP earned First Team All-SLIAC honors in three of four seasons and was named the league's Player of the Week seven times in her career. Campbell's career scoring average of 85.50 ranks seventh in team history and she was a Second Team All-SLIAC honoree as a freshman and senior. Both players were SLIAC All-Academic Team selections and Chi Alpha Sigma inductees.
Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, Second- and Third-team Academic All-America® honorees in the Women's At-Large Division will be announced on July 7 and the Men's a day later.