COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) has announced the addition of 31 freshman student-athletes to its 2014-15 Academic All-Conference Team, now that the rookies have completed their first academic year. The 2014-15 NCHC Academic All-Conference honors were originally announced March 10 when 97 sophomores, juniors and seniors were named to the team.

To be eligible for the NCHC Academic All-Conference Team, a student-athlete must compile a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average and have completed a full academic year at their current institution. Freshmen were not eligible in March as they had not completed a full academic year, but with the 2014-15 academic calendar complete, the rising sophomores are now eligible to earn Academic All-Conference honors. Athletic success and playing time are not criteria for this award.

Omaha and Western Michigan both had their entire freshman class earn a 3.0 GPA or better as the Mavericks led the way with 10 freshmen on the Academic All-Conference squad while WMU placed eight on the team. North Dakota had four freshmen eligible while Miami and St. Cloud State each had three freshmen earn honors.

With freshmen added, a total of 128 student-athletes earned NCHC Academic All-Conference accolades in 2014-15. Including freshmen, Omaha led all schools with 23 representatives while Western Michigan placed 20 on the team. Denver had 18 student-athletes earn All-Academic honors while St. Cloud State and Miami had 17 and 16, respectively.

The complete list of freshman student-athletes who earned NCHC Academic All-Conference honors is below. To see the original list of 97 Academic All-Conference members, click here.

Colorado College

None

Denver

Adam Plant

Miami

Louie Belpedio

Scott Dornbrock

Conor Lemirande

Minnesota Duluth

Karson Kuhlman

Jared Thomas

North Dakota

Cam Johnson

Austin Poganski

Tucker Poolman

Johnny Simonson

Omaha

Brock Crossthwaite

Grant Gallo

Joel Messner

Luke Nogard

Avery Peterson

David Pope

Jake Randolph

Brian Rideout

Luc Snuggerud

Tyler Vesel

St. Cloud State

Mika Ilvonen

Patrick Russell

Blake Winiecki

Western Michigan

Phil Bridges

John Carpino

Neal Goff

Scott Moldenhauer

Aidan Muir

Willem Nong-Lambert

Paul Stoykewych

Frederik Tiffels

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