Wheaton, Ill. – Soren Richardson of the Wheaton men's basketball team has been named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Division III Men's Basketball Team. Richardson is a Second Team Academic All-America honoree this season.
Richardson is a junior at Wheaton with a 3.72 cumulative grade point average (GPA). He is a Christian Formation & Ministry major. He was named a Fifth Team D3hoops.com Preseason All-American last month, and was named to the D3hoops.com and NABC All-Region teams earlier as well. He was also named as a finalist for the Jostens Trophy. He earned his second-consecutive unanimous First Team All-CCIW award. He averaged 23.0 points per game in Wheaton's 16 conference games to repeat at the league's scoring leader. Richardson was named the CCIW Player of the Week award three times this season: Dec. 8, Jan. 12 and Jan. 26, and has received the award five times in his career. Richardson averaged 22.4 points per game this season.
Richardson has 1,457 career points at Wheaton, a mark that ranks 26
th in program history. His 165 career three-pointers ranks 12
th in Wheaton's record books. He also has 516 field goals, 160 assists and 100 steals across his three seasons.
Student-athletes from Wheaton have earned a total of
124 Academic All-America selections since 1973 through the esteemed program. Wheaton Athletics currently has a streak of having at least one student-athlete recognized as an Academic All-American in every academic year since 1998-99.
The Wheaton men's basketball program has produced 11 Academic All-America selections:
Nate Frank (1994-95);
Jon Nielson (2004-05):
Michael Fiddler (2006-07);
Kent Raymond (2007-08 & 2008-09);
Tim McCrary (2011-12);
Tyler Peters (2013-14);
Brayden Teuscher (2014-15);
Nyameye Adom (2021-22);
Tyson Cruickshank (2022-23) and Richardson.
The Academic All-America® program honors student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level in athletics and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CSC; a 2,000-plus member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.50 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution. Since the program's inception in 1952, CSC has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Division I, II, III, NAIA and junior colleges covering all NCAA championship sports.
