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Jun. 26, 2015 9:00 am
Iowa colleges - UNI senior Holly Salzbrenner of Mount Vernon (Mount Vernon-Lisbon) earned third team Capital One Academic All-American honors in track and field, the first UNI woman to earn the honor ... Emily Watson of Cedar Rapids (Washington) earned his first varsity letter as a member of the Central softball team ... Central's Spencer Gritsch of Brooklyn (BGM) earned all-Iowa Conference academic honors in baseball, along with Luther's Mitch Adams of Cedar Rapids (Prairie) and Wartburg's Robbie Anstoetter of Farley (Dyersville Beckman) and Ty Mougin of Walford (C.R. Prairie) ... Coe's Tyler Gunderson of Lisbon, Dubuque's Chance Manternach of Monticello and Wartburg's Mitchell Martin of Cedar Rapids (Kennedy), Blaise Waller of Maquoketa and Ryan Shields of Iowa City (West) earned all-Iowa Conference academic honors in men's golf ... Kyle Appel of Coralville (I.C. West) earned academic all-Iowa Conference honors as a member of the Luther men's tennis team ... Earning all-Iowa Conference academic honors in men's track and field were Buena Vista's Austin Groth of Toledo (Garwin GMG), Coe's Austin Springsteen of Lisbon and Tanner McClenahan of Keota, Loras' Zach Frey of Cascade and Nathan Maiers of Dyersville (Beckman), Luther's Parker Beard of Decorah and Issac Jensen of Iowa City (West), and Wartburg's Ryan Hermsen of Epworth (Western Dubuque), Tyler Nullmeyer of North Liberty (I.C. West), Kyle Read of Marion (Linn-Mar), Drew Schwartz of Decorah, Daniel Bonthius of Iowa City (Regina), Colt Feltes of Delhi (Maquoketa Valley) and Justin Hochstetler of Kalona (Mid-Prairie) ... Buena Vista's Jordon Pilcher of Cedar Rapids (Washington) earned all-Iowa Conference academic honors in softball, along with Central's Taylor Sohn of Cedar Rapids (Kennedy), Coe's Ali Givens of Lisbon and Brenna Win of Walker (North-Linn), Dubuque's Megan Loes of Cascade, Luther's Brooke Stauffer of Cedar Rapids (Jefferson), Simpson's Alex Curley of Stanwood (North Cedar) and Wartburg's Dani Gordon of Fairbank (Wapsie Valley) and Courtney Wilkan of Waukon ... Coe's Brianna DeJong of Iowa City (West Branch) and Allison Rogers of Cedar Rapids (Washington) were named to the Iowa Conference all-academic team in track and field along with Dubuque's Chantel Christiansen of Anamosa and Allyson Machala of Traer (North Tama), Loras' Bri Cook of Monticello (Anamosa), Ashley Wenthold of Fort Atkinson (South Winneshiek), Emily Sotelo of Iowa City (City High) and Emily Ruhser of Elkader (Central), Luther's Marea Holkesvik, Jackie Hoyme and Tessa Kraus of Decorah, Jessie Robinson (West) and Erin Danielson (City High) of Iowa City, Rhianna MacDonald of Manchester (West Delaware) and Anna Burke of Elgin (Valley), Simpson's Breanna Gaster of Walford (C.R. Prairie) and Nicole Bahl of North Liberty (I.C. Regina), and Wartburg's Whitney Stahr of Fayette (North Fayette), Natalie Bonthius of Iowa City (Regina), Jessica Brimeyer of Solon, Kayla Kregel of Decorah, Kathy Kuennen of Fort Atkinson (Turkey Valley), Hailee Reist of Cedar Rapids (Prairie) and Mary Wrage of Dysart (Union Community).
Kyle Appel, in the 2011 boys' state tournament while at Iowa City West, earned academic all-Iowa Conference honors as tennis player at Luther. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)