BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Big Ten Conference office released its spring 2023 Academic All-Big Ten team with 228 University of Michigan student-athletes – including 13 women’s water polo competitors – earning the distinction.
Criteria for making the Academic All-Big Ten team includes being in at least their second academic year at their institution and maintaining a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
The breakdown for Michigan’s spring sports is 21 from baseball, nine from men’s golf, four from women’s golf, 36 from men’s lacrosse, 23 from women’s lacrosse, 30 from rowing, 13 from softball, six from men’s tennis, five from women’s tennis, 30 from men’s track and field, 38 from women’s track and field and 13 from water polo.
The list of honored Michigan women’s water polo athletes is:
Water Polo (13)
- Libby Alsemgeest (Hamilton, New Zealand St. Cuthbert’s College) Applied Exercise Science
- Alex Brown (Sr., Clayton, Calif./Carondelet) Psychology
- Lola Ciruli (Jr., Lafayette, Calif./Campolindo) Communications and Media
- Grace Harbaugh (Sr., Coronado, Calif./Coronado) History of Art
- Jess Henningsen (Sr., Moraga, Calif./Campolindo) Communications and Media
- Alison Lock (Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich./Skyline) Neuroscience
- Sammi Monroe (Jr., Pleasant Hill, Calif./College Park) Sport Management
- Erin Neustrom (Gr., Moraga, Calif./Campolindo) Real Estate Development
- Ashley O’Neill (So., Calgary, Alberta, Canada/William Aberhart) Neuroscience
- Sophie Tovani (Sr., Danville, Calif./San Ramon Valley) Communications and Media
- Kasey Umlauf (Jr., Northfield, Ill./New Trier Township) Neuroscience
- Kata Utassy (Jr., Budapest, Hungary/Könyves Kálmán Secondary School) Communications and Media & Psychology
- Fiona Young (So., Orinda, Calif./Miramonte) Biology, Health, & Society
