MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State had 16 student-athletes earn the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor, the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, as it was announced on Tuesday (June 30).
The 16 recipients include five student-athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field program, Pierson Carlisle, Kayla Goodwin, Aaliyah Lindsay, Taylor Mayo and Delaney Wright, three Wildcats from both the football, Will Anciaux, Jet Dineen and Jacob Knuth, and soccer teams, Khaliana Garrett, Andra Mohler and Sophie Simmons, as well as two women’s rowers, Grace Hall and Emily Northcutt, and Ethan Giesbrecht (baseball), Taryn Sides (women’s basketball) and Julia Ballester (women’s golf).
Eight of these athletes, Anciaux, Dineen, Goodwin, Hall, Lindsay, Mayo, Mohler and Sides, also earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team accolades for the 2025-26 season.
As a long jumper, Lindsay was named a First-Team All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championship with her 8th place finish of 6.44m (21′ 1.5″). On the court, Sides, a native of Phillipsburg, Kan., was a 2025-26 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 90 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.
The Spring Academic All-Big 12 Team was also announced with 87 K-State athletes named, along with 38 freshmen named to the Rookie Team. The women’s rowing team leads the athletic department with 22 honors, the baseball and women’s track and field teams tied with 19 each. The women’s track team had the most rookie honors with 10, followed by six from the rowing and men’s track teams.
16 Wildcats were nominated with a 4.00 GPA including, baseball’s Cohen Feser, six women’s rowers, Sylvia Cunningham, Grace Hall, Lorelei Harris, Annika Janss, Leah Roane and Izzy Ross and nine athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field teams, Oskars Bambals, Emil Uhlin, Tavon Underwood, Cecilia Fisher, Kayla Goodwin, Ariana Jackson, Taylor Mayo, Bree Newport and Alexa Rios.
On the rookie team, 10 athletes earned a 4.00 GPA, rowing’s Gabbie Forsythe, Martaa Chogsomjav and Addison Renfro from women’s tennis and Logan Beckman, Bree Allen, Emma Baum, Delaney Brinker, Reese Brownlee, Payton Fink and Hanna Keltner from the track and field teams.
The award is in memory of Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 2007. He was the chairman on three occasions (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003-04). Lage had been a member of the Oklahoma State family since 1966, when he joined the College of Business Administration as an assistant professor. During his tenure at OSU, he served as the director of graduate studies in the department of economics (1974-77), head of the department of economics and finance (1978-84), director of the OSU Center for International Trade and Development (1985-87), and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the college of business administration (1997-2004).
2025-26 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipients
Ethan Giesbrecht, RJr., Baseball, Agronomy
Taryn Sides, Jr., Women’s Basketball, Integrative Human Sciences
Will Anciaux, So., Football, Kinesiology
Jet Dineen, Jr., Football, Communication Studies
Jacob Knuth, Jr., Football
Julia Ballester, Jr., Women’s Golf, Kinesiology
Grace Hall, Sr., Rowing, Kinesiology
Emily Northcutt, Sr., Rowing, Human Development & Family Science
Khaliana Garrett, Sr., Soccer, Biomedical Engineering
Andra Mohler, Sr., Soccer, Kinesiology
Sophie Simmons, Sr., Soccer, Finance
Pierson Carlisle, Jr., Men’s Track & Field, Psychology
Kayla Goodwin, Gr., Women’s Track & Field, Masters- Business Administration
Aaliyah Lindsay, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Human Sciences
Taylor Mayo, Jr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Physiology
Delaney Wright, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Accounting
The 16 recipients include five student-athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field program, Pierson Carlisle, Kayla Goodwin, Aaliyah Lindsay, Taylor Mayo and Delaney Wright, three Wildcats from both the football, Will Anciaux, Jet Dineen and Jacob Knuth, and soccer teams, Khaliana Garrett, Andra Mohler and Sophie Simmons, as well as two women’s rowers, Grace Hall and Emily Northcutt, and Ethan Giesbrecht (baseball), Taryn Sides (women’s basketball) and Julia Ballester (women’s golf).
Eight of these athletes, Anciaux, Dineen, Goodwin, Hall, Lindsay, Mayo, Mohler and Sides, also earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team accolades for the 2025-26 season.
As a long jumper, Lindsay was named a First-Team All-American at the NCAA Outdoor Championship with her 8th place finish of 6.44m (21′ 1.5″). On the court, Sides, a native of Phillipsburg, Kan., was a 2025-26 All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 90 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.
The Spring Academic All-Big 12 Team was also announced with 87 K-State athletes named, along with 38 freshmen named to the Rookie Team. The women’s rowing team leads the athletic department with 22 honors, the baseball and women’s track and field teams tied with 19 each. The women’s track team had the most rookie honors with 10, followed by six from the rowing and men’s track teams.
16 Wildcats were nominated with a 4.00 GPA including, baseball’s Cohen Feser, six women’s rowers, Sylvia Cunningham, Grace Hall, Lorelei Harris, Annika Janss, Leah Roane and Izzy Ross and nine athletes from the men’s and women’s track and field teams, Oskars Bambals, Emil Uhlin, Tavon Underwood, Cecilia Fisher, Kayla Goodwin, Ariana Jackson, Taylor Mayo, Bree Newport and Alexa Rios.
On the rookie team, 10 athletes earned a 4.00 GPA, rowing’s Gabbie Forsythe, Martaa Chogsomjav and Addison Renfro from women’s tennis and Logan Beckman, Bree Allen, Emma Baum, Delaney Brinker, Reese Brownlee, Payton Fink and Hanna Keltner from the track and field teams.
The award is in memory of Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 2007. He was the chairman on three occasions (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003-04). Lage had been a member of the Oklahoma State family since 1966, when he joined the College of Business Administration as an assistant professor. During his tenure at OSU, he served as the director of graduate studies in the department of economics (1974-77), head of the department of economics and finance (1978-84), director of the OSU Center for International Trade and Development (1985-87), and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the college of business administration (1997-2004).
2025-26 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipients
Ethan Giesbrecht, RJr., Baseball, Agronomy
Taryn Sides, Jr., Women’s Basketball, Integrative Human Sciences
Will Anciaux, So., Football, Kinesiology
Jet Dineen, Jr., Football, Communication Studies
Jacob Knuth, Jr., Football
Julia Ballester, Jr., Women’s Golf, Kinesiology
Grace Hall, Sr., Rowing, Kinesiology
Emily Northcutt, Sr., Rowing, Human Development & Family Science
Khaliana Garrett, Sr., Soccer, Biomedical Engineering
Andra Mohler, Sr., Soccer, Kinesiology
Sophie Simmons, Sr., Soccer, Finance
Pierson Carlisle, Jr., Men’s Track & Field, Psychology
Kayla Goodwin, Gr., Women’s Track & Field, Masters- Business Administration
Aaliyah Lindsay, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Human Sciences
Taylor Mayo, Jr., Women’s Track & Field, Integrative Physiology
Delaney Wright, Sr., Women’s Track & Field, Accounting
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