GREENWOOD, Ind. – Nine Lewis & Clark College student-athletes earned spots on the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Men's and Women's At-Large Teams, the organization announced Tuesday.
 
Junior Luke Blankinship and sophomores Mason Hill and Joonho Moon were named to the NCAA Division III Men's Academic All-District At-Large Team. On the women's side, sophomore Clare Kimmel and senior Sadie Meredith-Andrews represented rowing, sophomores Evie Denton and Ahika Jani were selected from women's golf, and sophomore Kaedance Stubbs and junior Sage Swegle earned honors from women's lacrosse. Blankinship and Swegle received the recognition for the second consecutive year.
 
The Academic All-District Teams recognize student-athletes for excellence in academics and athletics. Nominees must be sophomores or older and maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher. The men's at-large category includes student-athletes from 10 NCAA sports, with golf serving as Lewis & Clark's only sponsored sport in the category. The women's at-large category includes student-athletes from 13 NCAA sports, three of which are sponsored by Lewis & Clark: rowing, golf and lacrosse.
 
Competition requirements vary by sport. Golfers must compete in 75% of an institution's team-scoring events or participate in the conference championship tournament. Women's lacrosse nominees must compete in at least 90% of the team's games or start at least two-thirds of them. Rowing nominees must compete in 90% of a team's competitions or race as a member of an NCAA championship boat (1V8, 2V8 or 1V4) at a conference or national championship.
 
Blankinship, an economics major with a minor in entrepreneurship from Louisville, Colorado, earned All-Northwest Conference Third Team honors after tying for fifth at the NWC Championship Tournament. He ranked second on the team with a 73.43 scoring average in 21 rounds. Blankinship recorded three top-five finishes and five top-10 showings in 10 events. He posted a season-low round of 69 at the Pines Cup and his best tournament score of 141 (1-under) at the Pacific Invitational in the fall.
 
Hill, an economics major from Broomfield, Colorado, finished fourth on the team with a 75.05 scoring average in 21 rounds. The sophomore posted two top-10 finishes, including a season-low round of 67 at the Willamette Valley Cup. He recorded his best tournament score of 143 (1-over) at the Pacific Invitational in the fall.
 
Moon, a computer science major from Valencia, California, finished third on the team with a 73.95 scoring average in 21 rounds. The sophomore posted three top-10 finishes and recorded a season-low round of 69 at the Pines Cup. He matched his best tournament score twice, carding a 141 at both the Pines Cup and Willamette Valley Cup.
 
Kimmel, a psychology major from St. Paul, Minnesota, rowed in the two-seat of the varsity eight throughout the spring season. She helped the River Otters reach the petite final at the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships and also competed in the varsity four throughout the year.
 
Meredith-Andrews, a biology and psychology double major from St. Louis, Missouri, served as the stroke seat for the varsity eight all season. She also competed in pairs and helped her boat place fifth in the grand final at the WIRA Championships.
 
Denton, a rhetoric and media studies major with a minor in political science from Rome, New York, finished second on the team with an 81.25 scoring average in 20 rounds. She posted two top-five finishes and four top-10 results in 10 events. Denton carded a season-low round of 72 at the Pacific Invitational and recorded her best tournament score of 154 at the California State Intercollegiate Tournament.
 
Jani, a computer science and mathematics major with a minor in data science from Mumbai, India, earned All-NWC First Team honors for the second consecutive season after finishing in the top 10 of all three conference events during the 2025-26 academic year. She posted the lowest scoring average by a Lewis & Clark golfer since at least 2016-17 and potentially in program history, averaging 76.9 per round. Jani won four tournaments, recorded five top-five finishes and placed in the top 10 seven times. She shot a career-low 70 at the Pacific Invitational and posted a career-best tournament score of 147 at the NWC Spring Classic.
 
Stubbs, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Danville, California, earned All-NWC Second Team honors. A dual-sport student-athlete who also competes for the women's soccer team, Stubbs led the lacrosse team with 52 ground balls and 37 caused turnovers. She added 10 draw controls, two shots on goal and her first collegiate assist.
 
Swegle, a philosophy major with a minor in entrepreneurship from Morrison, Colorado, earned All-NWC Third Team recognition. The junior ranked third on the team with 51 goals, 13 assists and 64 points. She also recorded 29 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers.