Frontier Conference honors local athletes
Two athletes from Columbia Falls and another from Kalispell made the Frontier Conference women’s basketball all-academic team announced on Friday.
Taylor Salonen of Kalispell and Kaira Burlage and Peyton Kehr of Columbia Falls made the 41-member team.
To be eligible the athlete must be a sophomore in standing at her college, be enrolled at the school the previous two semesters and maintain a 3.0 grade-point average.
Salonen is a senior elementary education major at Carroll College. Burlage is a junior in the nursing program at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho; Kehr is a junior in elementary education at Montana State-Northern.
Frontier Conference
Women’s basketball all-academic team
Carroll College – Taylor Salonen, sr., Kalispell, Elementary Education; Christine Denny, sr., Fairfield, Wash., Business; Madeline Geritz, so., Boise, Elementary Ed; Molly McDermott, Spokane, Psychology; Sienna Swannack, so., Nine Mile Falls, Wash., General Studies; Dani Wagner, sr., Havre, Business.
Lewis-Clark State – Kaira Burlage, jr., Columbia Falls, Nursing; Jansen Edmiston, sr., Hermiston, Ore., Business/Psychology; Abby Farmer, jr., Brookings Harbor, Ore., Business; Abbie Johnson, jr., Cashmere, Wash., Education; Jamie Nielson, sr., Smithfield, Utah, Kinesiology; Peyton Souvenir, sr., Cathlament, Wash., English.
Montana State-Northern – Peyton Kehr, jr., Columbia Falls; Allix Goldhahn, so., Fairfield, Health Promotion; Morgan Mason, so., Froid, Physical Ed; Petra Sellin, sr., Angelhom, Sweden, Business.
Montana Tech – Jaden Comings, so., Philipsburg, Environmental Engineering; Hailey Crawford, jr., Helena, Business/Info. Technology; Megan Delaney, so., Frenchtown, Math Sciences; Celestina Faletoi, so., West Valley City, Utah, Science; Mollie Peoples, jr., Butte, Nursing; Dani Urick, so., Belt, Radiology; Mesa Williams, jr., White Sulphur Springs, Applied Health and Safety; Kaylee Zard, sr., Forsyth, Applied Health and Safety.
Montana-Western – Savannah Bignell, sr., Avon, HPE; Paige Holmes, sr., Seeley Lake, Secondary Ed; Mesa King, jr., Big Timber, HPE; Gracey Meyer,, so., Moscow, Idaho, HPE; Shannon Worster, jr., Missoula, Biology.
Rocky Mountain College – Markaela Francis, sr., Great Falls, Biology; Olivia James, sr., Layton, Utah, Math; Kloie Thatcher, so., Butte, HPE.
University of Providence – Kenedy Cartwright, sr., Pasco, Wash., Business; Parker Esary, sr., Kalama, Wash., Business; Reed Hazard, so., Portland, Ore., Psychology; Emilee Maldonado, sr., Sunnyside, Wash., Biology; Kerstyn Pimperton, jr., Bel, Biology; Jenna Randich, sr., Olympia, Business; Molly Schmitz, jr., Great Falls, Psychology; Elly Teske, sr., Yakima, Wash., Biology; Brittany White, jr., Kirkland, Wash., Biology.
Men’s Basketball all-academic team
Carroll College — Thomas Austefjord, sr., Rocklin, Calif., Business/Marketing; Shamrock Campbell, so., Spokane, Wash., Undeclared; Jaedon Lieberg,, so., Helena, Chemistry; Jovan Sljivancanin, so., Belgrade, Serbia, Business; Eetu Villa, so., Helsinki, Finland. General Studies; Dane Warp, sr., Havre, Biochemistry/Molecular Biology.
Lewis-Clark State College – Hodges Bailey, jr., Centralia, Wash., Business; Trystan Bradley, jr., Lewiston, Idaho, Biology; Conner Dunlop, sr., Spokane, Kinesiology; Damek Mitchell, jr., Bellingham, Wash., Sports Administration; Khalil Stevenson, jr., Whittier, Calif., Kinesiology; Josiah Westbrook sr., Bellingham, Wash., Communication; Braeden Wilson, so., Lewiston, Idaho, Sports Administration; Travis Yenor, jr., Meridian, Idaho, Business.
Montana State-Northern – Devin Bray, sr., Missoula, Business/Accounting; Eddie Harmon, so., Turner, Diesel Technology; Adam Huse, sr., Bozeman, Business/Accounting/Psychology; Mascio McCadney, jr., Detroit, HPE/Health Promotions; T.J. Reynolds, so., Shelby, Elementary Ed.
Montana Tech – Drew Huse, so., Bozeman, Business & Info. Technology; Christian Jones, jr., Laurel, Mechanical Engineering; Connor Kieckbusch, so., Billings, Business & Information Technology; Dylan Pannabecker, sr., Choteau, Civil Engineering.
Montana Western – Connor Burkhart, sr., Firth, Idaho, Business; Derrek Durocher, sr., Choteau, HHP; Tanner Haverfield, jr., Dillon, Ecology; Carter Kearns, so., Hamilton, Business.
Rocky Mountain College – Joshua Eckman, so., Boulder, Business; Kelson Eiselein, so., Roundup, Business; Samuel Vining, so., Great Falls, Education; Grant Wallace, sr., Kooskia, Idaho, Exercise Science.
University of Providence – Dawson Fowler, so., Belgrade, Exercise Science; Jean Fredeick Daho-Mondzo, so., Montreal, Exercise Science; Kevin Ng, sr., Kaneohe, Hawaii, Forensic Science/Psychology; Jacob Wetzel, sr., Great Falls, Addictions Counseling/Psychology.