DENVER - Sophomore attacker Olivia Ripple was named to the College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District At-Large Team for her performance on the course and in the classroom during the 2024-25 season. 

To be eligible for CSC Academic All-District honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominated student-athletes must have participated in at least 90 percent of their team's games this season or started 66 percent of the games.
 
Each school was limited to six nominees for both the Men's and Women's At-Large Academic All-District Team, which includes athletes from the NCAA sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

Ripple led the Pioneers with 63 goals this season, good for fourth-most in a single season in program history. The sophomore broke the single-game scoring program record with 10 goals against Marquette and has had multi-goal performances in all but three games in the 2025 season. She earned All-Big East First Team and IWLCA All-West/Midwest Region honors and was named Big East Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Her 11 goals, eight ground balls and three caused turnovers in the two-game tournament stint earned her IWLCA National Offensive Player of the Week for the week of May 6. 


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