Boise State Recognized with 165 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Honors
7/24/2025 12:15:00 PM | General
Women's track and field and football led the way
BOISE, Idaho – Boise State received 165 selections from 146 student-athletes to earn Mountain West Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2024-25 academic year as the conference announced its complete list of academic award winners on Thursday.
The Broncos were led by women's track and field with 29 and football with 19 for the most selections among the 14 Boise State teams that compete in the Mountain West.
Five other teams secured double digit honors, including soccer (17), gymnastics (15), women's basketball (15), women's cross country (13) and men's track and field (10).
The other programs with honorees included softball (8), women's tennis (8), women's golf (7), men's cross country (6), men's golf (6), volleyball (5), men's basketball (4), and men's tennis (3).
Boise State student-athletes closed out the 2024-25 academic year with the highest cumulative grade-point average (GPA) in department history with a 3.46. The Broncos also turned in an all-department single-semester GPA of 3.39, which is the best spring semester in department history.
Over half of Boise State's sports programs earned a new GPA record, whether cumulative or semester, during the school year, while women's golf (3.82), softball (3.57) and football (3.18) set all-time records for semester GPA.
As a department, all 18 sport programs secured a 3.0 GPA or higher, 87% of all student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or higher, and 70 student-athletes secured a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The MW Scholar-Athlete Award is one of the highest academic honors bestowed by the Conference. All student-athletes who meet the following criteria qualify.
* Must have completed at least two semesters or three quarters at the certifying member institution.
* Must have a cumulative grade-point average, at the member institution, of 3.50 or higher.
The Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Awards follow the conference's announcement yesterday of the Spring 2025 Academic All-Mountain West honorees, with 101 Bronco student-athletes recognized.
Boise State's scholar-athletes are listed by sport below.
| Men's Basketball |
| Julian Bowie |
| Alvaro Cardenas |
| Tyson Degenhart |
| Brennan Ramirez |
| Women's Basketball |
| Dani Bayes |
| Alyssa Christensen |
| Jayda Clark |
| Madeline Cooke |
| Teryn Gardner |
| Mya Hansen |
| Allie Hueckman |
| Libby Hutton |
| Linsey Lovrovich |
| Abby Muse |
| Mackenzie Naro |
| Mary Kay Naro |
| Natalie Pasco |
| Milly Sharp |
| Josee Steadman |
| Men's Cross Country |
| Josh Dickinson |
| Joe Hudson |
| Brian Kiprotich |
| Tom Patrick |
| Ned Potter |
| Alex Thompson |
| Women's Cross Country |
| Hanna Ackermann |
| Sunitha Black |
| Haley Blaine |
| Bianca Böhnke |
| Ines Borba |
| Stella Diaz |
| Emily Jobes |
| Abby Kendrick |
| Julia Kiesler |
| Amit Koma |
| Lauren Larson |
| Autumn Ost |
| Kaiya Robertson |
| Football |
| Kaden Anderson |
| Kyle Cox |
| Max Cutforth |
| Ben Ford |
| Troy Grizzle |
| Ahmed Hassanein |
| Maddux Madsen |
| Cole Miller |
| Marco Notarainni |
| Tayo Omotinugbon |
| Chase Penry |
| Carson Rasmussen |
| Jarrett Reeser |
| Hall Schmidt |
| Jake Steele |
| Jason Steele |
| Luke Voorhees |
| Matt Wagner |
| Zion Washington |
| Men's Golf |
| Luke Cushman |
| Chase Gorder |
| Ryan Meyer |
| William O'Connor |
| Cole Rueck |
| Jake Slocum |
| Women's Golf |
| Annie Buffolino |
| Leia Chung |
| Macee Greenwood |
| Jillian Hui |
| Teal Matsueda |
| Zoe Parker |
| Brooke Patterson |
| Gymnastics |
| Noelle Ball |
| Anna Ferguson |
| Kylee Hamby |
| Bridget Kemp |
| Sydney Kho |
| Julia Krzywanski |
| Sydney Leitch |
| Emily Lopez |
| Emma Loyim |
| Brantley Lucas |
| Elaina McGovern |
| Julia Melchert |
| Dani Nakayama |
| Kristina Shchennikova |
| Alyssa Vulaj |
| Soccer |
| Jillian Anderson |
| Oakley Anderson |
| Emily Brashear |
| Ali Chatterton |
| Olivia Collins |
| Cindy Conner |
| Carly Cross |
| Sophie Drown |
| Michaela Justiniani |
| Asia Lawyer |
| Kenzie MacMillan |
| Avery McBride |
| Molly McCabe |
| Kaitlyn Slocum |
| Grace Sommers |
| Kennedy Sullivan |
| Evv Vail |
| Softball |
| Hollie Farmer |
| Mykenzie Hanna |
| Ashley Hernandez |
| Talia Jenkins |
| Shannon Keighran |
| Megan Lake |
| Julianne Rose |
| Brook Thompson |
| Men's Tennis |
| Adam Duda |
| Dylan Jaen |
| Taiyo Kurata |
| Women's Tennis |
| Ariadna Briones Ginesta |
| Maya Dutta |
| Ryan Kershner |
| Ella Piron |
| Zdena Safarova |
| Paula Schaefer |
| Bhakti Shah |
| Masa Viriant |
| Men's Track and Field |
| Austen Apperson |
| Josh Dickinson |
| Xavier Fraley |
| Landon Helms |
| Joe Hudson |
| Brian Kiprotich |
| Tom Patrick |
| Ned Potter |
| Wyatt Roseman |
| Alex Thompson |
| Women's Track and Field |
| Hanna Ackermann |
| Sunitha Black |
| Haley Blaine |
| Bianca Böhnke |
| Eloise Bolles |
| Ines Borba |
| Gabriella Chiara |
| Alyssa Cullen |
| Kenna deLemos |
| Stella Diaz |
| Gabbie Hasskamp |
| Emily Jobes |
| Abby Kendrick |
| Julia Kiesler |
| Alexee Kline |
| Amit Koma |
| Lauren Larson |
| Kinlee Mclean |
| Alix Mund |
| Autumn Ost |
| Kaiya Robertson |
| Ruby Sereday |
| Maggie Shirazi |
| Abby Stamper |
| Damaris Stuffle |
| Love Uzoekwe |
| Rebecca Vander Poel |
| Alison Whalen |
| Addie Winter |
| Volleyball |
| Paige Bartsch |
| Elle Cotton |
| Lilli Etter |
| Kendall Hastings |
| Bella McGirr |
