La Crosse, Wis. - Five members of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's cross country and track & field teams have been named to the 2025 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Academic All-District® Team, selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC), the organization announced.
Seniors
Katelyn Chadwick of
Poynette (H.S.) and
Macie Todd of
Lake Geneva (Badger) along with juniors
Amber Grosse of
Madison (Edgewood),
Lauren Jarrett of
La Crosse (Logan) and
Morgan Jennings of
Davenport, Iowa (Assumption) earned the honor.
It marks the second straight year Todd and Jarrett earned Academic All-District honors.
Chadwick, a recreational therapy major with a 3.95 cumulative grade point average, was named the 2024 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Cross Country Scholar-Athlete. She has been named to UWL's Dean's List eight semesters and is a four-time honoree on the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
During the 2024 cross country season, Chadwick competed at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships, placing 106th overall. She earned NCAA Division III All-North Region accolades with a 12th-place finish and was an All-WIAC First Team choice after finishing fifth at the league championships. Chadwick was also fourth at the UWL Tori Neubauer Invitational, 12th at the Concordia University Wisconsin Invitational, 43rd at the University of Notre Dame Invitational and 52nd at Indiana State University Invitational.
She captured the WIAC title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2025 WIAC Championships to earn all-conference first team honors. Chadwick finished 14th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase preliminaries at this year's NCAA III Championships.
An exercise sport science pre-professional major with a 3.76 grade point average, Todd has been on UWL's Dean's List eight semesters. She is a three-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
Todd was named the 2025 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Division III North Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year after placing fifth in the high jump at the NCAA III Championships to earn All-America honors and capturing the title at the WIAC Championships. It was her third career indoor All-America award in the high jump after also finishing fourth in 2023 and fifth in 2024. Todd won her second straight WIAC indoor high jump title this year.
She was a 2025 All-WIAC Honorable Mention selection during the outdoor season with a third-place finish in the high jump. Todd placed second in 2022. She earned 2024 NCAA III Outdoor All-America accolades after finishing fifth in the high jump.
A biology major with a 3.87 grade point average, Grosse has been a member of UWL's Dean's List all four years. She is a two-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
Grosse earned NCAA Division III Second Team All-America honors with a 10th-place finish in the heptathlon at the national championships. She was seventh in the shot put at the 2025 WIAC Outdoor Championships and sixth in the pentathlon at the 2025 WIAC Indoor Championships.
Majoring in exercise sport science pre-professional with a 3.62 grade point average, Jarrett earned 2024 CSC Academic All-America Second Team honors. She is a five-time member of UWL's Dean's List and two-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
Voted the track & field finalist for the 2025 Division III Honda Athlete of the Year Award, Jarrett was named this year's USTFCCCA NCAA Division III Women's Track Indoor and Outdoor Athlete of the Year. She also swept the 2025 USTFCCCA Outstanding Indoor and Outdoor Track Performer of the Meet and the North Region Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. Jarrett won the 60 and 200-meter dash titles at the 2025 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships and swept the 100 and 200 meter dash at the NCAA III Outdoor Championships while also anchoring the winning 4x100-meter relay.
Jarrett earned the 2025 WIAC Indoor and Outdoor Track Performer of the Meet. She won the 60 and 200-meter dash at the indoor league championships and the 100 and 200-meter dash at the outdoor championships. Jarrett was also on UWL's first-place 4x100-meter relay outdoors.
She holds the NCAA Division III record in the indoor 60-meter dash (7.29) and outdoor 100-meter dash (11.23) while ranking second in history in the indoor (23.94) and outdoor (23.44) 200-meter dash.
Jennings is a psychology major with a 3.97 grade point average. She has been a member of UWL's Dean's List and is two-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
She earned NCAA Division III All-America honors in the 4x400-meter relay this season at the indoor and outdoor championships. Jennings was a member of UWL's third-place 4x400-meter relay at the NCAA III Indoor Championships with
Anna Plautz,
Andie Otto and
Macy Reybrock with a school record time of 3:46.53. Plautz, Otto, Reybrock and Jennings also won the 4x400-meter relay at the 2025 WIAC Indoor Championships.
Jennings joined Plautz,
Alli Thomas and Reybrock in finishing third in the 4x400-meter relay at the 2025 NCAA III Outdoor Championships to earn All-America accolades.
Madison Hecker, Thomas,
Sarah Grubbs and Jennings captured the 4x400-meter relay at this year's outdoor league championships.
Jennings has four career All-America awards in the 4x400-meter relay. Along with the third-place finishes indoor and outdoor this season, she was on the fourth-place relays at the 2023 indoor and outdoor championships.
The 2025 Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field team, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the track, in the field, and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes men's track& field honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced on Tuesday, July 15.
The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2024-25 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.