Four student-athletes from Regions VIII/IX were named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Team for Division III women’s volleyball.
Wisconsin-Oshkosh’s Samantha Perlberg (3.76 GPA in marketing & business analytics) was named to the First Team while Carthage’s Jenna Damon (4.00 marketing) was selected to the Second Team, and Northwestern’s Marley Aune (3.82 kinesiology) and Illinois Wesleyan’s Kannyn Boyd (3.76 elementary education) were voted to the Third Team.
East Texas Baptist’s Graycee Mosley (4.00 biochemistry) was named Team Member of the Year for Division III after also earning the Elite Scholar-Athlete Award at the finals last month in Bloomington, Ill.
Joining Mosley and Perlberg on the Division III First Team were Simone Adam (3.76 computer science) and Helena Swaak (3.99 public health studies) from Johns Hopkins, Christopher Newport’s Alyssa Dozier (4.00 history and political science), Berry’s Madie Whitehead (3.93 exercise science) and Gallaudet’s Brielle Worley (3.98 business administration).
-Ricky Nelson