PICTURED ABOVE: Grace Crowder and Cohen Oberg have been selected as Wheaton's Jack Swartz Award honorees for the spring semester.
Naperville, Ill. – The conference office has recognized Wheaton student-athletes from each spring sport for their efforts in the classroom this past semester. The 2026 CCIW Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference Team for the spring season includes 93 Wheaton student-athletes. The Academic All-Conference team consists of sophomores, juniors and seniors from CCIW member institutions who achieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
The Dave Wrath Academic All-Conference award is named after the former Augustana College athletics administrator. Wrath retired in June of 2021 as the Associate Director of Athletics for Media and Alumni Relations, serving the Vikings for 40 years. In addition to his duties at Augustana, Wrath served as the CCIW Sports Information Director from 1996 to 2005 and was instrumental in establishing the CCIW's Academic All-Conference Program in 2005. The 2021-22 academic year marked the first year that the award was named after Wrath.
Two Thunder student-athletes have earned recognition as the school's spring recipients of the
Jack Swartz Award.
Grace Crowder of the Thunder women's track & field team is Wheaton's female honoree, and
Rutledge Feltel of the Thunder baseball team is Wheaton's male recipient. Nahorniak recently graduated with a degree in English writing, and Feltel, a fellow 2025 graduate, received his degree in Applied Health Science last month.
The Jack Swartz Award is given to one male and one female athlete from each conference school at the conclusion of each of the three athletic seasons (fall, winter and spring). The honor is given by the CCIW, and each of the nine schools in the league picks their own representatives. The winners from each school must earn a varsity letter in his/her sport and have a grade point average of at least 3.50. The award is named after the late Jack Swartz, a former Wheaton student-athlete, coach and athletic administrator who served as the first Commissioner of the CCIW until his death in 1998.
SPRING CCIW ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE
Baseball
Alex Bagley
Harrison Bailey
Nate Burden
Ryan Cartwright
Michael Chang
Will Clegg
Austin Eilmes
Braden Engel
Santana Grady
Nathan Hedlund
Caleb Kelley
David Levengood
Chris Lynam
Scott Sanders
Caleb Schauer
Caleb Snyder
JD Van Hook
Softball
Victoria Barbar
Shylah Dozeman
Livi Figueroa
Iris Jones
Mia Reinhard
Soleil Weaver
Cate Welch
Abby Whitehead
Men's Golf
Baylor Brogan
Freddie Chan
Ryan McLain
Lance Otremba
Tannen Reed
Jackson Swartz
Men's Tennis
David Hill
Toby Schmidt
Sam Schutz
Corin Tang
Ryder Ward
Andrew Winters
Men's Outdoor Track and Field
Noah Bisbee
Luke Bothun
James Clark
Jacob Davis
Sam Elsen
Tobiah Gieser
Aidan Langan
Bradley Lauber
Benjamin Maher
Jonah Noyes
Cohen Oberg
Jaden Pankau
Sheldon Powell
Dan Sanoussi
Josh Schuurman
Wyatt Shepson
Kaleb Skelly
Josh Steiner
Matthew Stoner
Drew Swiston
Luke Wertz
Micah Young
Women's Outdoor Track and Field
Abby Baird
Elise Book
Louisa Brorson
Grace Crowder
Meredith Eisses
Miika Forsyth
Sophia Huber
Abby Kauffman
Olivia Kiddy
Heidi Krekelberg
Elizabeth LaBrin
Abby Lawson
Lily Lebo
Laura Prothero
Sarah Quintanilla
Sadie Richert
Abby Rickard
Ciarra Rockness
Ashtin Roy
Clara Rudolph
Abby Sanderson
Julia Snider
Caroline Stetina
Tavinya Taylor
Hannah Tompkins
