{"id":28635,"date":"2017-06-29T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=28635"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T15:28:02","slug":"beaver-athletics-update-springsummer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/29\/beaver-athletics-update-springsummer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver Athletics Update \u2014 Spring\/Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yost selected for All-American list<\/b><\/p>\n

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Senior pitcher Jessica Yost throws for a 7-3 victory in the first game of an April 8 doubleheader against Upper Iowa. She was 25-8 on the season with an ERA of 1.24.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Softball senior Jessica Yost<\/b> of Bemidji became the first Beaver to make the FPN All-American Second-Team Pitchers list. She also made team history by being named a Louisville Slugger\/National Fastpitch Coaches Association National Co-Pitcher of the Week for March 30-April 2, which included a perfect game. Overall, Yost posted a 0.29 ERA, allowed one earned run in 24 innings and collected 44 strikeouts with only one walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGolfer Skaar gets NSIC Elite 18 nod<\/b>
\nBen Skaar<\/b> in April became the first Bemidji State student-athlete to receive the NSIC Elite 18 Award in men’s golf, which recognizes competitive and academic success. Skaar, a sophomore from Coleraine majoring in sports management, holds a 4.00 grade point average. He maintained an 81.8 stroke average through 11 rounds this season. Skaar finished 33rd at the NSIC Championship, held April 13-15 in Smithville, Mo., and helped the Beavers place sixth overall.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n17 Beavers carry a perfect 4.0 GPA
\n<\/b>For the Fall 2016 semester, BSU’s 353 student-athletes in 15 sport programs posted an average GPA of 3.13. The BSU men’s hockey team led with a team GPA of 3.62, and soccer carried a 3.58. Seventeen BSU student-athletes carried a cumulative GPA of 4.0.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n39 Beavers named All-Academic
\n<\/b>Bemidji State landed 39 student-athletes on the 2016 Fall and 2016-17 Winter Academic All-NSIC Teams, which require a grade point average of at least 3.20. The fall contingent was led by soccer, with 10 student-athletes, followed by football and volleyball, both with six, and cross country with two. For winter, women’s basketball had seven members named, indoor track had six and men’s basketball had two.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPelzer achieves first team, 1,000th point
\n<\/b>Basketball senior Aimee Pelzer<\/b> of Upsala capped her collegiate career by becoming BSU’s first All-NSIC First Team selection since 2007-08. She averaged 15.0 points, 4.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game and ranked third on the program’s single-season three-point list with 73 as a senior. Pelzer also was one of three Beavers to reach the 1,000-point milestone this past season, joining Tatum Sheley<\/b> and Sierra Senske<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\"\"<\/a><\/td>\nTennis sets winning record at 12-5
\n<\/b>The tennis team, coached by BSU alumnus Mark Fodness<\/b>, posted a program-best 12-5 record and gained its second consecutive berth into the NSIC Tournament by going 6-5 in league play. The Beavers ended at 72-30 (.706) in singles play and 73-13 (.740) in doubles. Newcomers Brooke Mimmack (pictured, left)<\/b> of Brainerd and Ariadna Lopez-Simo (right)<\/b> of Barcelona, Spain, were ranked among the NSIC’s top five singles players, posting 15-1 and 10-2 records, respectively.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nNine Beavers earn Myles Brand
\n<\/b>A school-record nine student-athletes received the NSIC Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award this year. They are: Gena Adams<\/b> and Mitchell Elbe<\/b> (football), Allison Cordes<\/b> (women’s basketball), Alayna Krejci<\/b> (softball), Ryan Rumpca <\/b>and Jack Stigman<\/b> (baseball), Sarah Stram<\/b> and Christine Szurek<\/b> (soccer) and Shane White<\/b> (men’s basketball). The award goes to senior NSIC student-athletes who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThree join football’s Hampshire society
\n<\/b>Three BSU football players were named to the 2017 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society. Seniors Gena Adams<\/b> (Phoenix, Ariz.), Mitchell Elbe<\/b> (Sayner, Wis.) and Jesse Hein <\/b>(Perham) were among 1,089 players from 297 colleges who maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college careers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 \"\"<\/a><\/td>\n<\/td>\nYost, Bitzer are Athletes of the Year
\n<\/b>Senior softball and volleyball standout Jessica Yost<\/b> of Bemidji and goaltender Michael Bitzer (pictured)<\/b>, a Moorhead junior, were named Female and Male Athletes of the Year for 2016-17. Soccer forward Tia Neuharth<\/b>, a freshman from Prior Lake, and men’s hockey defenseman Zach Whitecloud<\/b>, a freshman from Brandon, Man., were selected as the Female and Male Newcomers of the Year. The awards were presented at the Beaver Nation Celebration on April 27.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mineral Water champs look ahead to Aug. 31<\/b><\/p>\n

The football team is set for an 11-game 2017 schedule with five home dates, including a Sept. 23 Homecoming matchup versus Southwest Minnesota State. The 2016 Mineral Water Bowl champions open on Aug. 31 at Winona State University, followed by a Sept. 9 home opener versus Concordia University-St. Paul. BSU will host University of Mary on Oct. 7, University of Minnesota Duluth on Oct. 28 and St. Cloud State University on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n

Pictured: Wide receiver Christian Lunde after a catch in this year’s Spring Game on April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yost selected for All-American list Softball senior Jessica Yost of Bemidji became the first Beaver to make the FPN All-American Second-Team Pitchers list. She also made team history by being named a Louisville Slugger\/National Fastpitch Coaches Association National Co-Pitcher of the Week for March 30-April 2, which included a perfect game. Overall, Yost posted a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28635"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28647,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28635\/revisions\/28647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}