CSC Announces Academic All-District® Teams

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Six student-athletes from the UNC Greensboro (UNCG) women's soccer team were named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team, announced on Tuesday.
 
To be eligible, nominated student-athletes must be at least a sophomore and either a starter or important reserve with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average at their current institution and must have played in 90 percent of the institution's games or must start in at least 66 percent of the school's matches.
 
The Southern Conference (SoCon) had 29 student-athletes represented on the 2025 CSC Academic All-District® Team, including from Furman (5), Mercer (4), VMI (2), Western Carolina (6), Wofford (6) and UNCG (6). 

Taylor Mentzer
Senior | Midfielder | Reading, Pa.

• Has a 3.95 GPA while pursuing her degree in Kinesiology
• 2025 All-SoCon Second Team
• Started in 15 games and played in 18 matches this season
• Tallied three goals and four assists this season
• Her four assists paced the team
• She concluded her collegiate career with 13 goals and four assists for 30 points
• SoCon Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, SoCon Academic All-Conference, Chancellor's List

Ava Kiss
Senior | Midfielder | Las Vegas, Nev.

• Has a 3.97 GPA while pursuing her degree in Kinesiology
• 2023 & 2024 CSC Academic All-District® Team
• Started in 11 games and played in all 19 matches this season
• Tallied four goals and two assists this season
• Her four goals finished second on the team
• She concluded her collegiate career with 11 goals and 10 assists for 32 points
• Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, SoCon Academic All-Conference, Chancellor's List

Mairead Gayer
Junior | Midfielder | Northport, N.Y.

• Has a 3.71 GPA while majoring in Physics
• Started in 6 games and played in all 19 matches this season
• Tallied one goal and two assists this season
• She has two goals and four assists in her career
• Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, SoCon Academic All-Conference, Chancellor's List

Bailey Gourdine
Junior | Forward | Mukilteo, Washington

• Has a 3.82 GPA while majoring in Marketing
• Started in 17 games and played in all 19 matches this season
• Scored her third-collegiate goal this season in a 1-0 victory over Triad-rival High Point
• Has a total of three goals and four assists in her career
• Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, SoCon Academic All-Conference, Dean's List, Chancellor's List

Natalie McCullough
Junior | Defender | Raleigh, N.C.

• Has a 3.92 GPA while majoring in Kinesiology
• Started in all 19 games this season logging 1690 minutes, the most on the team
• Has played in the backline in 52 of 57 games in her three seasons with the Blue & Gold
• Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, SoCon Academic All-Conference, Chancellor's List

Nicole Hutchinson
Sophomore | Defender | Piedmont, S.C.

• Has a 3.88 GPA while majoring in Kinesiology
• Started and played in 16 of the 19 games this season
• Tallied one assist this season in a 4-0 victory over VMI
• Has a total of three assists in her two years with the Blue & Gold
• Commissioner's Medal, SoCon Academic Honor Roll, Dean's List, Chancellor's List

The Spartans finished up their season with a 4-12-3 overall record and 2-4-3 in SoCon play. UNCG recorded five shutouts this season and 13 Spartans tallied at least one point. UNCG scored 22 goals this season. The Blue & Gold fell to No. 2 Western Carolina, 4-3, in overtime of a SoCon Quarterfinal matchup.
 
The CSC recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. Select Academic All-District® honorees will advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® women's soccer honorees will be announced Dec. 17, 2025.

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About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on Aug. 31, 2022.

From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.

The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.