Ten Wolverines Named CSC Academic All-District
6/17/2025 1:34:00 PM | Field Hockey, General, Men's Golf, Men's Gymnastics, Ice Hockey, Women's Gymnastics, Rowing, Water Polo, Wrestling
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Ten student-athletes from the University of Michigan were named to the 2024-25 Academic All-District At-Large Team, selected by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday afternoon (June 17). To receive the honor, student-athletes must have completed at least one year of classes and have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average while hitting various participation requirements.
Six female student-athletes were honored in Carly Bauman (women's gymnastics), Katie Easton (rowing), Logan Roeder (rowing), Abby Tamer (field hockey), Leia Till (rowing) and Kasey Umlauf (water polo). On the men's side, Josh Eernisse (ice hockey), Josh Heindselman (wrestling), Rithik Puri (men's gymnastics) and Hunter Thomson (men's golf) were honored.
Carly Bauman
Bauman ended the 2025 season as the NCAA Regional Co-Champion on uneven bars with a score of 9.950 after being named the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association Northeast Regional Gymnast of the Year. The West Des Moines, Iowa, native was a first team All-Big Ten honoree for the second straight season and was a three-time Big Ten Specialist of the Week. Bauman won 14 individual event titles across three events and posted 19 scores of 9.900 or better in her fifth season.
Katie Easton
Easton's Academic All-District honor is the second of her career, following three CRCA Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-Big Ten honors. She graduated this spring with a degree in public health. A team captain and program record-holder on the erg, Easton has been rowing in U-M's 1V8 since the postseason of her freshman year and helped the boat place 12th at the NCAA Championships this year. The Melbourne, Australia, native is a three-time All-American and secured second-team honors in 2025. Her leadership and on-water contributions have been critical to U-M's speed throughout her career, leading to her fourth Big Ten medal with the 1V8 in 2025. She has also been part of two Big Ten Championship teams at Michigan and is a three-time All-Big Ten honoree.
Logan Roeder
As coxswain, Roeder has helmed the 2V8 and 1V8 boats throughout her three years with the Wolverines while working toward her degree in psychology. Her first career Academic All-District honor in 2025 follows a season when she and her boatmates earned a bronze medal at the Big Ten Championships en route to an 11th-place national finish. The season earned Roeder honorable mention All-American recognition. As a member of the 1V8 through the entire 2025 season, Roeder's leadership on and off the water has been vital to the success of the boat and team. The Chicago, Ill., native is a two-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
Abby Tamer
Tamer earned NFHCA All-America first-team honors and unanimous selection to the All-Big Ten first team after leading the Wolverines in scoring in 2024 with 38 points on career highs in goals (12) and assists (14). Tamer returned to the U-M lineup after redshirting the 2023 season while training with the U.S. women's national team before representing Team USA in Paris, where she led the red, white and blue in scoring with two goals. Named the NFHCA's 2024 Division I National Scholar-Athlete, she graduated this spring with a bachelor's degree in applied exercise science and will pursue a master's in sport management in 2025-26. She is a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and has earned NFHCA Scholar of Distinction honors three times.
Leia Till
Till, a graduate student who transferred to U-M before the 2024-25 season from Virginia, made an immediate impact in the lineup while working toward her master's degree in movement science. Rowing in the 1V8's first four seats throughout the season, Till proved to be an important addition to the roster on its way to an 11th-place team finish at the NCAA Championships. She captured a bronze medal in her lone appearance at the Big Ten Championships. Till is a five-time CRCA Scholar-Athlete (four at Virginia, one at Michigan) and earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in her lone season as a Wolverine.
Kasey Umlauf
Umlauf is a graduate student who earned her master's degree in human genetics after completing her bachelor's degree in neuroscience. Umlauf started all 30 games for the Maize and Blue and tallied a career-high 22 goals in her final season in Ann Arbor. Umlauf was named to the CWPA All-Tournament team in 2025 and is a four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
Josh Eernisse
A junior on the U-M ice hockey team, Eernisse played in all 36 games this season and had 11 points for the Wolverines. He has been named Academic All-Big Ten in both seasons that he was eligible and is a two-time recipient of the Carl Isaacson Award, a team award presented to the player with the highest scholastic average. A 2024 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, Eernisse helped the Wolverines to the 2024 NCAA Frozen Four.
Josh Heindselman
Heindselman earned All-America honors for the first time in his collegiate career with a seventh-place finish at heavyweight at the 2024 NCAA Championships. He boasted a team-best 26-6 record despite joining the Wolverines at the semester and earned bonus points in 16 matches, including 12 technical falls, to rank among the national leaders. Having already earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a master's in health care law, Heindselman completed several classes in Michigan's School of Social Work and will enroll in medical school back in his native Oklahoma this fall.
Rithik Puri
A senior on the men's gymnastics team, Puri competed in nine of the team's 10 meets. A biomedical engineering major, he helped lead the Wolverines to their fifth straight Big Ten championship and seventh NCAA championship. The Chicago, Ill., native finished sixth on the still rings at the NCAA Championships to earn All-America honors with his second-highest score of the season (13.966). Puri is a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and a 2023 Big Ten Scholar of Distinction.
Hunter Thomson
A unanimous All-Big Ten first team and two-time All-America selection, Thomson concluded his U-M career as the program's all-time scoring leader with a 71.53 average after breaking his single-season record with a 70.24 per-round average. He became the second Wolverine to lead the team in scoring average for four straight years. Thomson paced U-M in 13 of 14 events, including the final nine tournaments, and recorded 10 top-10 finishes, with seven in the top five. A PING All-Midwest regional selection, he won three individual titles, including the Canadian Collegiate Invitational (202, -14), the Boilermaker Invitational (203, -10) and the NCAA Urbana Regional (203, -10).
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