University of Minnesota Athletics
Trio Named Academic All-America Selections
6/11/2015 12:00:00 AM | Gymnastics
MINNEAPOLIS -- Gophers Hannah Brandt (women's hockey), Lindsay Mable (women's gymnastics), and Jessica Plant (women's swimming & diving) were recognized for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom as the trio was named to the 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America At-Large Teams by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
Brandt and Plant were named to this year's Capital One Academic All-America At-Large Second Team while Mable was a Third Team honoree. All three Gophers were chosen as Capital One Academic All-District honorees earlier this spring. Plant is one of five Capital One All-America Second Team honorees who owns a perfect 4.0 GPA.
The trio joins Maxx Williams (football) and Erica Meyer (softball) to bring the University of Minnesota's 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-America selections to five student-athletes. Track & field honorees will be announced later this month. The Gophers received 20 total Academic All-District honors this year as well.
Brandt led the women's hockey team to the program's sixth national title in 2014-15. She ranked second in the nation with 74 points on 34 goals and 40 assists as a junior. Named a Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award finalist for the third-straight season, Brandt was also honored as an AHCA/CCM First Team All-American, All-USCHO and All-WCHA First Team honoree, and the WCHA Player of the Year for the second-straight year. A right-handed center from Vadnais Heights, Minn., Brandt became just the seventh Gopher in program history to surpass the 200-career point mark this season. She enters her senior season ranked fifth all-time with 221 career points. The two-time WCHA Scholar Athlete and WCHA All-Academic Team honoree is studying health and wellness through the University of Minnesota's Inter-College Program and holds a 3.68 GPA.
Mable capped a successful junior campaign as she competed as the lone represented from the University of Minnesota at the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, Texas. Mable was named the 2015 Big Ten Gymnast of the Year after earning six league weekly honors. At the conference championships, the junior defended her vault title and earned a share of the floor exercise title en route to a runner-up finish in the all-around competition. Mable is a three-time First Team All-Big Ten honoree and has earned ten All-America laurels throughout her career, including four regular-season honors this year. The Colorado Gymnastics Institute alumna ended the 2015 season with 31 individual event wins and 11 all-around crowns. Mable spent two weeks in the top spot of the national all-around rankings and broke her own school record all-around score in February when she tallied a 39.675 in front of a home crowd at the Sports Pavilion. Off the competition floor, Mable is a dedicated student and has earned two Academic All-Big Ten accolades. The elementary education major was named a 2014 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and holds a 3.77 GPA. Mable was the only junior to be nominated for the prestigious Honda Sports Award for gymnastics in 2015.
Plant, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, a two-time Academic All-American, and a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. She received the Big Ten's Wayne Duke Scholarship award and was announced as the University of Minnesota's recipients of the Big Ten Conference postgraduate scholarship. She is finishing her final undergraduate academic semester with a 4.0 GPA in her coursework toward her art history and classical civilizations degrees. Plant plans to pursue graduate work in art history and archaeology. In the pool, Plant was a member of the Golden Gophers' 800 freestyle relay team that won the Big Ten title. She is a three-time First-Team All-American and has been named to All-Big Ten first- and second-teams during her career.
The at-large teams for the Capital One Academic All-America program include the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, and water polo for both men and women, as well as bowling, crew, and field hockey for women, and volleyball and wrestling for men.
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