COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The NJCAA recently announced team and individual honors for academic achievement during the 2017-18 academic year, with 23 Northwest student-athletes garnering national recognition.

NJCAA All-Academic Student-Athlete Awards are broken down into three teams, with the qualifying grade-point average for each honor as follows: All-Academic First Team: 4.00 GPA; All-Academic Second Team: 3.80-3.99 GPA; All-Academic Third Team: 3.60-3.79 GPA.

All-Academic First Team honors went to Harley Smith, Kayla Bradley and Sarah Johnson.

NJCAA All-Academic Second Team honorees were Ally Judkins, Ben Van Cleve, Cayman Blount, Christian Pirani, Kendall Akerson, Keshunn Abram, Kyle Moore, Laken Stanek, Madison Thrasher and Mary Thornburg.

NJCAA All-Academic Third Team members were Alex Shepard, Angel Hailey, Angelica Justice, Brandon Pierre, Brooks Boolos, Carson Tackett, Dakota Dailey, Jake Tyrone, Samantha Weinberg and Trae Thompson.

Just two weeks ago, Northwest had 41 student-athletes named to the 2017-18 MACJC All-Academic Team.