Eight Brandywine Student-Athletes Named To CSC Academic All-District Teams

MEDIA, Pa. -- Eight Penn State Brandywine student-athletes were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District At-Large Teams that were announced on Tuesday.

Honorees include three members of Brandywine's USCAA World Series champion softball team: Meghan Ferry (Gloucester City, N.J./Gloucester City), Kaylee Mushinski (Allentown, N.J./Allentown) and Karly Rees (Oxford, Pa./Oxford). Women's basketball/volleyball student-athlete Amanda Floyd (Glenolden, Pa./Interboro) and women's soccer student-athlete Caitlin Kaiser (Hackettstown, N.J./Hackettstown) were also selected, while three student-athletes were honored on the men's side: basketball's Colin Hockenbrock (Wilmington, Del./St. Elizabeth), soccer's Kyle Reuter (York, Pa./Dallastown Area) and baseball's Connor Thompson (Finksburg, Md./Westminster). Ferry, Floyd, Kaiser, Rees and Reuter all claimed the award for the second consecutive year.

To be nominated for an Academic All-District award, student-athletes must be a starter for their team, be at least a sophomore academically and own a minimum GPA of 3.50 or greater. Academic All-District honorees advance to the CSC Academic All-America ballot with all-Americans being announced in July.

Ferry graduated in May with a degree in psychology. She is also a four-time PSUAC All-Academic Team recipient and earned three USCAA National Academic Team and NFCA Scholar-Athlete awards. During her four-year, 149-game career, Ferry set the program record with 25 home runs, while producing 136 hits, 171 runs scored and 119 RBI.

Floyd earned her degree last month in human development and family studies. On the basketball court, she was a four-time all-conference selection and three-time USCAA All-American, while finishing her 110-game career as the program's second leading scorer with 1,753 points. Floyd also received all-conference laurels in volleyball, where she was a four-year starter, tallying 557 kills and 392 digs in 91 matches.

An American studies major, Hockenbrock graduated from Brandywine in May. The 2021-22 PSUAC Newcomer of the Year, Hockenbrock earned three all-conference laurels and was a 2022-23 USCAA All-American. He ranks sixth on the team's all-time scoring list with 1,137 points and is also among the program's leaders in rebounds (623) and blocked shots (101).

Kaiser was a two-year starting defender for the Brandywine women's soccer team who earned her degree in biology. A 2023 USCAA First Team All-American, Kaiser garnered two all-conference selections, including first team last fall. She competed in 33 matches and helped the Lions reach the PSUAC Tournament championship in 2022 and 2023.

Mushinski owns a 3.51 GPA as a communications major entering her junior year. The 2024 USCAA National Player of the Year and a two-time conference player of the year, Mushinski topped all USCAA softball players with 10 home runs and broke the program's single-season RBI record for the second-straight season, knocking in 70 runs in 45 games. Along with Rees, Mushinski was named to the PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Softball Team last week.

Rees will enter her senior year as a business major this fall with a 3.99 GPA. This spring, she was named USCAA Student-Athlete of the Year and earned the John S. Egli Award as the top female student-athlete in the PSUAC. On the field, Rees was named USCAA First Team All-American after batting .464 with 64 hits, 40 runs scored and 37 RBI.

Reuter will return for his final year with the Brandywine men's soccer team this fall owning a 3.54 GPA as a business major. He is a two-time All-PSUAC honoree and collected USCAA Second Team All-American honors in 2022. Reuter led all USCAA players with 11 assists in 2023 and has totaled 28 helpers, along with four goals, in 51 career matches.

Thompson received his degree in engineering in May. He was a two-time all-American and three-time All-PSUAC pitcher, finishing with a career record of 20-12 in 45 appearances on the mound. Thompson tossed 13 complete games in four seasons and is one of two Brandywine pitchers to accumulate more than 200 innings on the mound during a career.