FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Evan O’Kelly Director of Communications O: (406) 657-2130 E: evan.okelly@msubillings.edu Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4 Yellowjacket women earn NSCAA academic all-region honors
Four players from MSUB’s women’s soccer team are selected to the NSCAA academic all-region honorable mention team. BILLINGS, Mont. – Four players from the Montana State University Billings women’s soccer team earned National Soccer Coaches Association of America academic all-region honors for the 2015 season. Seniors Katlyn Lokay and Teegan Koster and juniors Kari Kastelic and Dana Lubieniecki were among the NCAA Division I and Division II award winners from the west region, as all four players were selected to the honorable mention squad. “I am really proud of these four for receiving this award,” commented MSUB head coach Wojtek Krakowiak. “They have worked really hard to maintain their GPAs and I think they represent our program very well. Academics are very important to our program, and we always try to recruit great student-athletes.” A four-year starter and three-year captain, Lokay finished her career in the fall having started every game since 2012 and tallying the second-most minutes played in MSUB history (6,422). Lokay started 70 matches and scored seven goals in her four seasons, while maintaining a 3.34 grade point average while studying psychology. The Boulder, Colo., native also serves as MSUB’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee vice president.
Koster is another four-year letterwinner in the program, and earned Great Northwest Athletic Conference academic allconference honors for the third straight season this fall. Koster, a Sherwood, Ore., native, will graduate in the spring and maintains a 3.34 grade point average in marketing. Kastelic is a junior captain on the team, and has played every single minute as a center back each of the last two seasons for the Yellowjackets. Earning academic all-conference honors in the fall, Kastelic holds a 3.93 grade point average in finance. A native of Phoenix, Ariz., Kastelic was a second-team all-GNAC pick in 2014 and an honorable mention all-conference selection this season. Also a junior captain for MSUB, Lubieniecki is a two-time academic allconference selection and was picked to the honorable mention allGNAC squad as a midfielder this season. Lubieniecki carries a 3.82 grade point average and is studying health and human performance. She is a native of Lakewood, Colo. From left: Captains Dana Lubieniecki, Kari Kastelic, and Katlyn Lokay were each selected to the NSCAA academic all-region team this season.
The Yellowjackets finished the 2015 season with a record of 8-7-2 and a 6-5-1 mark in conference play to finish in fourth place and advance to the GNAC Championships.
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