2012 WILA All-Academic Team

ALAMOSA, Colo. — Six Fort Lewis College lacrosse players —Amanda Cawker, Amanda Hoffmeyer, Jessica Norby, Jenna Steele, Toki Tajima-Prodnuk, and Brook Wineland — earned Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-Academic honors, WILA Commissioner Chris Day announced today. Cawker, Norby, Steele, and Tajima-Prodnuk are repeat selections from the inaugural All-WILA Academic team.

“These student-athletes possess hardworking and dedicated attitudes that are present both on the field and in the classroom,” said second-year Skyhawk head coach Kelsey MacDonald. “I am very proud of them for their All-Academic and athletic success this year.”

Cawker, a 5-foot-5 sophomore attack from Valley Center High School in Valley Center, Calif., maintains a 3.60 grade point average in Political Science. She amassed 12 total points on 11 goals and an assist in 2011 and added 10 groundballs, 8 draw controls, and 5 caused turnovers.

Cawker ranks among FLC career leaders in goals (fifth, 28), draw controls (sixth, 35), total points (sixth, 36), total points per game (seventh, 1.29), assists (seventh, 8), goals per game (eighth, 1.00), assists per game (eighth, 0.29), caused turnovers (eighth, 18), games played (ninth, 28), and ground balls (14th, 23).

Hoffmeyer, a 5-foot-4 freshman midfield from St. Joseph Academy in St. Louis, Mo., has a 3.85 GPA with a major in Business Administration and a minor in Spanish. Last month, she earned All-WILA honorable mention. She set the school record for most draw controls in a game with 10 against Grand Valley State on March 30. During her freshman campaign, Hoffmeyer tallied 11 points on 8 goals and 3 assists, adding 42 draw controls, 28 ground balls, and 9 caused turnovers.

She ranks among FLC career leaders in draw controls (fourth, 42), assists per game (ninth, 0.21), total points (11th, 11), goals (12th, 8), goals per game (12th, 0.57), assists (12th, 3), ground balls (12th, 28), total points per game (13th, 0.76), and caused turnovers (14th, 9).

Norby, a 5-foot-7 sophomore attack from Chaska High School in Chaska, Minn., carries a 3.36 GPA in Environmental Geology. She notched 60 points on 35 goals and 25 assists this year to repeat on the All-WILA first team. She added 16 ground balls, 4 draw controls, and 3 caused turnovers.

A year ago, she was the WILA Offensive Player of the Year and a two-time WILA Offensive Player of the Week. She is FLC's career leader in total points (131), total points per game (4.52), assists (53), and assists per game (1.83), and ranks among Skyhawk career leaders in goals (second, 78), goals per game (second, 2.69), games played (fifth, 29), ground balls (12th, 28), draw controls (13th, 9), and caused turnovers (16th, 7).

Steele, a 5-foot-6 junior defense from West Linn, Ore., maintains a 3.83 GPA in Exercise Science-Sport Administration. Last month, she was a repeat selection on the All-WILA second team. She had 33 ground balls, 15 caused turnovers, 10 draw controls and a goal in 2012.

A former D2 Athletic Directors Association/WeatherPORT Academic Award recipient, Steele ranks among FLC career leaders in games played (second, 40), caused turnovers (third, 28), ground balls (fourth, 74), draw controls (tenth, 24), and total points (25th, 3).

Tajima-Prodnuk, a 4-foot-9 sophomore attack from Westview High School in San Diego, has a 3.77 GPA in Biology. She registered 11 total points on 6 goals and 5 assists this year, adding 10 ground balls, 3 caused turnovers, and a draw control.

Tajima-Prodnuk ranks among FLC career leaders in assists (fifth, 12), assists per game (seventh, 0.44), total points (eighth, 26), goals (ninth, 14), games played (tenth, 27), total points per game (12th, 0.96), draw controls (12th, 12), ground balls (14th, 23), goals per game (16th, 0.52), and caused turnovers (16th, 7).

Wineland, a 5-foot-7 freshman attack/midfield from Golden High School in Golden, Colo., carries a 3.43 GPA in Engineering. She earned a second team All-WILA nod following her rookie campaign. Chosen as the WILA Defensive Player of the Week on April 19, she tied the school record for most caused turnovers in a single game with five against Colorado Mesa on April 13. She also set the school single-season mark for most draw controls (52). During the 2012 season, Wineland amassed 38 points on 28 goals and 10 assists, adding 36 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers.

Wineland ranks among FLC career leaders in draw controls (second, 52), assists per game (third, 0.67), total points per game (fourth, 2.53), total points (fifth, 38), goals (fifth, 28), goals per game (fifth, 1.87), assists (sixth, 10), caused turnovers (eighth, 18), ground balls (ninth, 36), and games played (17th, 15).

To earn WILA All-Academic honors, a player must maintain a 3.30 cumulative grade point average and appear in half of the team's WILA games. Unlike FLC's other 10 sports, which compete in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, lacrosse freshmen are eligible for academic all-conference awards.

The six lacrosse players who were honored today increase FLC's total number of academic all-conference performers to 57 for the 2011-12 season. Women's basketball and women's soccer each had nine academic all-conference selections, followed by football (7), lacrosse (6), softball (6), men's basketball (5), men's soccer (5), men's cross country (4), volleyball (4), and golf (2).

Lacrosse was one of six Fort Lewis College varsity athletic teams to earn a GPA of 3.00 or higher during the 2011-12 fall and winter terms. The lacrosse's team GPA was 3.05.

Fort Lewis finished its fourth-ever season of lacrosse 7-8 overall and 4-4 in WILA games (third place in the second-year league) under MacDonald. Defense/Midfield Jessica Adams is the lone senior that the Skyhawks lost to graduation.