CSC Release

SAINT PETER, Minn. – Twelve Gustavus student-athletes were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District at-large team on Tuesday, June 17. 

Each institution may nominate up to six male and six female student-athletes for Academic All-District recognition in the at-large category, which includes fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, water polo, men's volleyball, men's wrestling, women's beach volleyball, women's bowling, women's crew/rowing and women's field hockey.

The six men honored were (listed alphabetically by sport) junior golfer Pelayo Perez Crespo (Sotogrande, Spain/Sotogrande International), senior hockey defender Kylar Fenton (Grafton, Wis./University School of Milwaukee), sophomore hockey forward Drew Holt (Eden Prairie, Minn.), fifth-year hockey defenders Landon Johnson (Little Falls, Minn.) and Jack Kubitz (Wayzata, Minn./Orono) and sophomore defender Jackson McCarthy (Buffalo, N.Y./Mount St. Charles).

The six women honored were junior golfer Lauren Hubbart (Hastings, Minn.), junior gymnast Maddox Lee (Hugo, Minn./Lakes International Language Academy), senior gymnast Marley Michaud (Sartell, Minn.), sophomore hockey forward Avery Braunshausen (Lake Elmo, Minn./Stillwater Area), fifth-year hockey forward Brooke Power (Lakeville, Minn./North) and sophomore hockey player Kylie Scott (Dayton, Minn./Champlin Park).

Nominees must be of sophomore status with a 3.5 cumulative GPA or higher. Athletically, golf nominees must have competed in 70 percent of the team's total varsity events that were team scoring events. Gymnasts must be ranked in the top 75 in any event within their division according to Road To Nationals rankings. Hockey players must have competed in 90 percent of the team's total games or have started in 66 percent.

Academic All-District honorees are eligible for Academic All-America distinction if advanced to the national ballot, which will be voted on by organization members and announced on Tuesday, July 8 (women) and Wednesday, July 9 (men).

The honor is the second for Perez Crespo, Kubitz, Fenton, Lee, and Power. 

Perez Crespo, an economics major with a 3.53 GPA, was selected to the All-MIAC Honorable Mention team on May 12, 2025. In his junior season, Perez Crespo averaged an even 76.0 in 25 rounds. Through 10 events, he collected a trio of top 10 finishes and one in the top five (Bobby Krig Invite). 

The Gustavus men's golf team won four tournaments in the 2024-25 season – the most since the 2012-13 season (5) – and placed in the top five of five others, including the 2024 MIAC Championship where the Gusties finished fifth of nine teams. Gustavus went 56-14 against MIAC competitors and recorded a scoring average of 298.6 in 29 rounds. 

Fenton graduated in the spring as a computer science major with a 3.74 GPA. On the ice, he skated in 27 games, collecting a pair of goals and six assists for eight points from the blue line. Fenton managed a +6 rating and totaled two of his six assists in the team's MIAC playoff title game against St. Olaf. He finished his career with seven goals and 18 assists in 93 games played, and will garner his third consecutive Academic All-MIAC award later this summer. 

A financial economics major with a 3.71 GPA, Holt helped lead the high-powered Gustavus offense with eight goals and 18 assists in 28 games played. The sophomore collected his second All-MIAC honor and ranked second in assists in the conference when the regular season concluded with 17. He owned a +11 rating alongside seven multi-point games, including a three-assist performance against Hamline on Feb. 21. 

Johnson ended his collegiate hockey career skating in 27 games with six assists. A physics, mathematics, and statistics major with a 3.81 GPA, Johnson carried a +14 record from the blue line. An AHCA All-American Scholar last season, Johnson is expected to collect the honor once more, along with MIAC Academic All-Conference honors, later this summer. He concluded his career with 75 games played and nine assists. 

Kubitz helped captain the Gusties from the blue line, totaling two goals and seven assists for nine points in 26 games. An economics and sociology major with a 3.80 GPA, Kubitz is expected to earn his fourth MIAC Academic All-Conference honor this summer. He finished his career with four goals and 25 assists in 83 games played.

A sophomore DI transfer for the Gusties, McCarthy made an instant impact on the ice, skating in 26 games with a goal and 15 assists. A biology and psychology major with a 3.95 GPA, the Buffalo, N.Y. native was selected to both the MIAC All-Conference and All-Playoff teams. 

The men's hockey team saw a historical turnaround this season, finishing 16-10-2 and 10-4-2 in the conference. Five were named All-Conference, while the team led the league in nearly every offensive statistical category. The Gusties claimed both MIAC Championships, including the playoff championship at home, to punch a ticket back to the national tournament, where they fell in the first round.

Hubbart, a nursing major with a 3.73 GPA, was second on the team with an average of 82.6 through all 17 rounds of Gustie golf this season. In her junior season, Hubbart collected three top 10 finishes and one in the top five, a fourth place finish at the UW-Eau Claire Georgianni Invite. She ended her season taking eighth of 57 at the Bethel Rumble at the Ridge and ninth of 71 at the St. Olaf/Carleton Spring Invite. 

Aside from the MIAC Championship, where the women's golf team finished fifth out of 10 teams, Gustavus finished in the top five of three other tournaments in 2024-25. The Gusties went 27-24 against MIAC schools, and recorded an average of 332.0 over 17 rounds. Individually, three Gusties posted top five finishes and added three more in the top 10 of different events.

Lee collects her second All-District distinction with a 3.67 major in physics alongside a pair of top 40 marks in the Road to Nationals (RTN) rankings. Lee finished 39th in bars and 40th in beam. She collected WIAC Athlete of the Week honors earlier this season after posting the fifth-highest all-around total in program history. Her career-high all-around score is a 38.300, a score she set in the 2023-24 season, which ranks third in program history behind only Alex Kopp '17 (38.525) and Annie Corbett '23 (38.450). Her season bests included a 9.450 on vault, 9.550 on bars, 9.775 on beam (career-high, program record), 9.575 on floor and 38.050 in all-around competition.

Michaud graduated in the spring with a 3.85 GPA in biology. Her top floor score ranked 43rd according to RTN. The senior collected her second consecutive All-WIAC honor in the all-around at this season's championship after finishing in the top six. She helped the Gusties break a number of records in her final year of collegiate gymnastics, including her own career-high 37.875 in the all-around against Simpson on Feb. 23. Her top season scores including a 9.525 on vault, 9.050 on bars, 9.700 on beam (career-high) and 9.750 on floor (career-high).

The Gustavus gymnastics team posted a record year, surpassing the 190 mark for the first time in program history. The Gusties set the vault record five times, posting the first 48 in program history and setting the mark at 48.025. The team also set the beam record, now at 48.300, and posted a team record score of 190.275 against Simpson. Gustavus finished seventh at the WIAC Championships and posted two team scores that rank in the top five in program history. Lili Guy (Glendale Heights, Ill./Glenbard North) was the team's sole qualifier to the NCGA National Championships, which were hosted in Saint Peter for the first time since 1999. 

A business management major with a 3.96 GPA, Braunshausen skated in 28 games with a goal and two assists. She scored her only goal of the year against Hamline, the overtime-game winner in the team's regular season finale. Braunshausen was a 2024 AHCA All-American Scholar and is expected to collect her first MIAC Academic All-Conference honor later this summer.

One of the Gusties' most recent prolific scorers, Power concluded her fifth and final season with 13 goals and 11 assists for 24 points in 28 games played. She joined the program ranks with 100 career points and finished with 114, which puts her 10th in the program ranks. An exercise physiology major with a 3.93 GPA, the team captain became just the 25th player in recorded MIAC history to receive All-Conference recognition in four seasons. She set the MIAC record for career power play goals (22), finished second the conference record books in both short-handed goals (5) and game-winners (20). In her final season, she was one of the nation's statistically most accomplished active players, ranking in the top-10 of a number of statistics in all of college hockey. Among active Division III women's hockey players, she ranked first in career game-winning goals (20), second in goals (67) and power play goals (21), third in short-handed goals (five), eighth in points (114) and goals per game (0.56), and 11th in games played (120). Her 20 game-winners were good for third in all levels of women's hockey, while her 21 power play tallies were fifth. She became the 15th member of the Gustie 100 point club earlier this season, and she and her sister Erica '18 are the only sisters in the history of Gustavus and MIAC women's hockey to both eclipse 100 points. She finished her career with 114 points (68 G, 46 A) in 121 games played.

Scott, who was named a team captain for the 2025-26 season, played in 28 games between forward and defense. She scored three goals with 13 assists and started the season with a six-game point streak. A biology pre-med major with a 3.74 GPA, Scott also serves on the Student-Athlete Advisor Committee leadership team and was a part of the group that helped find a lifesaving match for a 33-year-old man battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma. She was a MIAC All-Playoff selection last season and is expected to earn her first Academic All-MIAC honor this summer. 

Women's hockey finished the 2024-25 season 21-7-0 overall and 15-3-0 in the conference and was ranked as high as No. 2 nationally in both the USCHO.com and DIII Hockey News rankings. Gustavus was the MIAC Playoff runner-up, and received an at-large bid to its 18th national tournament appearance, falling to St. Norbert (Wis.) in the first round.