COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Along with performing well on the ice, NCHC players are also having success in the classroom, as 113 National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) student-athletes have been named to the 2025-2026 NCHC Honor Roll, the National revealed on Wednesday. Among the 113 honorees, 83 student-athletes also earned NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete accolades.
 
To be eligible for the NCHC Honor Roll, which was previously called the Academic All-Conference Team, a student-athlete must compile a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average or better, while having completed at least one full academic year at his current institution, or have transferred intra-conference and previously received NCHC academic honors. Student-athletes that have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better are recognized as Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, in addition to NCHC Honor Roll. 
 
Among the 113 student-athletes on the NCHC Honor Roll, all nine NCHC schools placed at least six players on the Honor Roll, led by St. Cloud State with 17 honorees. Denver and Western Michigan each put 15 on the Honor Roll, while Colorado College and Minnesota Duluth have 14 student-athletes receiving the honor. North Dakota (12), Arizona State (10) and Omaha (10) all saw double figures on the Honor Roll, as well, while Miami placed six of its seven returnees this season on the Honor Roll.
 
Denver leads NCHC teams with 13 Distinguished-Scholar Athletes this year, followed by 12 each from Colorado College and St. Cloud State. Western Michigan is home to 11 Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, while Minnesota Duluth saw 10 earn the honor. All nine teams have at least five Distinguished Scholar-Athletes among returning players.
 
One student-athlete, St. Cloud State redshirt senior Ryan Rosborough, became a five-time NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete this year, while 12 other seniors or redshirt juniors garnered their fourth career NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete recognition: Denver’s Kent Anderson and Rieger Lorenz, Miami’s Blake Mesenburg, Minnesota Duluth’s Riley Bodnarchuk and Joey Pierce, North Dakota’s Dylan James, Omaha’s Griffin Ludtke and Cameron Mitchell, St. Cloud State’s James Gray, Mason Reiners and Jack Rogers, and Western Michigan’s Samuel Sjolund. Joining the 12 names above, eight (8) additional seniors became four-time members of the NCHC Honor Roll in 2026, which are noted below.
 
Of the 83 Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, 52 have compiled a cumulative grade-point average of 3.7 or better, including 14 with a GPA north of 3.9. Two NCHC student-athletes carry a perfect 4.0 grade-point average in SCSU’s Reiners, who is now in graduate school, and Western Michigan sophomore Zach Nehring. Reiners is one of four graduate students to land on the NCHC Honor Roll this year.
 
While freshmen and inter-conference first-year transfers, including graduate transfers, are not currently eligible for the NCHC Honor Roll or Distinguished Scholar-Athlete recognition (due to not having a full year at their current school), those freshmen and transfers that achieve a cumulative 3.0 GPA or better at the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year will be added to the NCHC Honor Roll over the summer. Similarly, any freshmen or first-year transfers who compile a 3.5 GPA or better will be named an NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete. 
 
The new NCHC Academic All-Conference Team, which will recognize the upperclassman with the highest cumulative GPA on each NCHC team, will be revealed in March. The 2025-26 NCHC Senior Scholar-Athlete Award, chosen from senior Distinguished Scholar-Athletes, will also be announced in March during the three-week NCHC Frozen Faceoff. NCHC All-Conference and All-Rookie Teams, along with NCHC individual award winners, will also be announced throughout the weeks of the NCHC Tournament in March.
 
All 113 members of the 2025-26 NCHC Honor Roll are listed below by school, with the 83 also earning NCHC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete recognition in bold and those collecting their accolade a fourth time denoted with a (x4).  
 
ARIZONA STATE
Tony Achille
Brasen Boser
Sam Court
Chase Hamm
Joel Kjellberg
Cruz Lucius
Tucker Ness
Cullen Potter
Bennett Schimek
Kyle Smolen
 
COLORADO COLLEGE
Ryan Alexander 
Nick Baer 
Owen Beckner 
Philippe Blais-Savoie 
Jordan Brisson 
Max Burkholder 
Ryan Koering 
Gavin Lindberg 
Bret Link 
Kaidan Mbereko (x4)
Drew Montgomery 
Fisher Scott 
Riley Stuart 
Klavs Veinbergs 
 
DENVER
Kent Anderson (x4)
Cale Ashcroft
Garrett Brown
Boston Buckberger
Hagen Burrows
Kieran Cebrian
Jake Fisher
Paxton Geisel
Sam Harris
Rieger Lorenz (x4)
Tory Pitner
Eric Pohlkamp
James Reeder
Samu Salminen
Alec Whipple
 
MIAMI
Nick Donato (x4)
John Emmons
Blake Mesenburg (x4)
Brayden Morrison
Casper Nassen
Michael Quinn
 
MINNESOTA DULUTH
Callum Arnott
Blake Bechen
Harper Bentz
Riley Bodnarchuk (x4)
Braden Fischer
Adam Gajan
Ty Hanson
Adam Kleber
Max Plante
Zam Plante
Joey Pierce (x4)
Aaron Pionk
Jayson Shaugabay
Trevor Stachowiak
 
NORTH DAKOTA
Dalton Andrew
Cody Croal
Gibson Homer
Dylan James (x4)
Jayden Jubenvill
Cade Littler
Jake Livanavage
Anthony Menghini
Andrew Strathmann
Ben Strinden (x4)
Mac Swanson
Abram Wiebe
 
OMAHA
Marcus Broberg
Will Craig
Jacob Guevin (x4)
Myles Hilman
Chase LaPinta
Simon Latkoczy (x4)
Griffin Ludtke (x4)
Cameron Mitchell (x4)
Tyler Rollwagen (x4)
Jacob Slipec (x4)
 
ST. CLOUD STATE
Grant Ahcan
Ethan AuCoin
Austin Burnevik
Thor Byfuglien
Daimon Gardner
James Gray (x4)
Tyson Gross
Verner Miettinen
Jack Reimann
Mason Reiners (x4)
Jack Rogers (x4)
Ryan Rosborough (x5)
Gavyn Thoreson
Kaleb Tiessen
Ocean Wallace
Cooper Wylie (x4)
Josh Zinger

WESTERN MICHIGAN
Zach Bade
Cole Crusberg-Roseen
Grady Gallatin
Ryan Kusler
Kirk Laursen
Owen Michaels
Zach Nehring
Zack Sharp
Samuel Sjolund (x4)
Grant Slukynsky
Hampton Slukynsky
Garrett Szydlowski
Joona Väisänen
Liam Valente
Zaccharya Wisdom