Muskingum News

Academic and athletic accolades were recently awarded to Muskingum University student-athletes and coaches from conference and national sports associations.

Congratulations and Go Muskies!

Archery:  The Archery program was awarded a USA Archery and Bass Pro Shops Club 3D equipment grant, which will allow the program to expand the equipment and resources available to student-athletes and to host larger events at the Moorehead Farm Archery Facility. Muskingum Archery Head Coach Craig Holycross and Kylee Brookover ’26 were selected to represent USA Archery: Coach Holycross will be appointed to the Collegiate Advisory Council as the North Region Representative and Kylee will serve as the Athlete Representative for the North/West Region.

Football: Seven Muskies earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) honors. Zuri Edmondson ’24, Ja’Lin Goodman ’24, and Conner Gurney ’22 were named to the All-OAC First Team. Kamari Hill ’24 and Gannon Unger ’24 earned All-OAC Second Team honors, and Toleo Malone ’25 and Austin Willforth ’25 were named All-OAC Honorable Mention. Ja’Lin and Conner were also named to the D3football.com Third Team All-Region 4 Team. Ten Muskies were also named Academic All-OAC honorees: Hunter Albers ’24, Jerimiah Flowers ’24, Owen Hively ’24, Gabriel Marks ’24, Steve Ervin ’25, Marcus Paul ’25, J.D. Schmidt ’26, James Salchli ’26, Logan Crozier ’26, and Kolby Masloski ’26. Hunter and Logan were honored with College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades.

Men’s Cross Country: Wade Speeth ’24 and Chance Carpenter ’25 were named to Academic All-OAC Honor Roll.

Men’s Soccer:  Fady Makram ’24, Avery Warix ’26, and Ryan Watson ’24 named to the Academic All-OAC Honor Roll.  Ryan was also named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District team.

Women’s Basketball: Taylor DeMassimo ’24 was named an OAC Player of the Week and Caitlyn DeMassimo ’25 was named an OAC Printing Concepts Scholar-Athlete of the Month.

Women’s Cross Country: Four Muskies were named to the Academic All-OAC Honor Roll: Abigail Derry ’26, Alyssa Heinrichs ’26, Kyra Kiessling ’26, and Rosemary Stephens ’26.

Women’s Soccer: Eight Muskies were named to the Academic All-OAC Honor Roll: Aubrey Brooks ’26, Kyleigh Dahlgren ’26, Lauren Hertle ’26, Emily Keylor ’26, Jillian Laposky ’25, Hannah Ritchie ’26, Jennafer Roberts ’25, and Morgan Smith ’26.  Jillian, Kyleigh, and Hannah also received College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades.

Women’s Volleyball: Raegan Flood ’24 was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. Raegan was also named to the Academic All-OAC Honor Roll, along with Abby Buchtel ’26, Addison Gingrich ’25, and Grace Pedersen ’25.