GREENWOOD, IND- The College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced their 2025-26 Academic All-District® recipients for the sport of women's basketball on Tuesday morning, recognizing the student-athletes' success on the court and in the classroom. Among the recipients were four BHSU Yellow Jackets: Tess Rule, Bradie Schlabs, Sawyer Stoebner, and Maureen Ulrich. Each of these girls are receiving the honor for the first time in their careers. In addition, Schlabs has been selected to advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced April 15, 2026.

Tess Rule was the third Yellow Jacket named First Team Academic All-RMAC in her first attempt. She also earned the RMAC Summit Award, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the finals site of their respective sport's championship. Rule is BHSU's first women's basketball Summit Award winner since the 2017-18 season when Cortez Standing Bear won the award. Rule is sitting with a  4.00 GPA while majoring in exercise science. She has competed in all 29 games for the Yellow Jackets this season averaging 10.6 minutes per game. Rule averaged 1.6 points per game and 2.4 rebounds per game while scoring a career-high seven points in a win over Regis earlier this year. She finished with 68 rebounds. 24 of those came within a three game stretch earlier this season including a career-high nine rebounds versus PUCPR. She has scored points in 15 of 29 games and has three games this year with over 20 minutes played.

Reigning All-RMAC Second Team Bradie Schlabs earned First Team Academic All-RMAC in her first attempt after sitting with a 4.0 GPA while majoring in Education. Schlabs is the first Yellow Jacket to earn First Team All-RMAC since Danica Kocer and Niki Van Wyk in 2022-23. She was the only starter returning this year. She was named to the Preseason All-RMAC Team. She averaged 10.2 points per game, which was second on team, 4.1 rebounds, and 5.5 assists. After becoming the first player in BHSU history to have 300 points, 100 rebounds, and 100 assists in a season last year and she fell just short from reaching those marks again with 296 points. The sophomore has reached ten points in 16 of the 29 games this season including season-highs of 23 in the season opener versus St. Edward's and also in the win over Adams State. Schlabs is now ranked fourth in the RMAC in assists/turnover ratio (1.45), seventh in the country and first in the RMAC in total assists (159), and is sixth in the country and is leading the conference in assists per game (5.5). She has had two assists in every game this year and has had four in 25 of 29. She also has two steals in 14 of the last 24 games including a career-high five versus CSU Pueblo. She had a career-high 11 assists in the win over CSU Pueblo.

Sawyer Stoebner also earned First Team Academic All-RMAC in her first attempt as she sits with a 4.0 GPA while majoring in Criminal Justice and Multimedia Journalism. She was named All-RMAC Honorable Mention and is fourth on the team in scoring with  7.9 points per game. She is also leading the team with 6.4 rebounds, which is tenth in the conference. Stoebner is third in the RMAC in offensive rebounds per game (2.8). Stoebner had a career-high 20 points against Minnesota Crookston where she shot 7-11 (.636) from the field and 6-10 (.600) from the charity stripe. She also had a career-high 14 rebounds in the last week of the regular season against Westminster. She has two double-doubles this year versus MSU Denver (11 points, 13 rebounds) and in the second game versus UCCS (12 points, 10 rebounds). She has reached double figure scoring ten times and has grabbed six or more rebounds 16 times.

Maureen Ulrich is one of four Yellow Jackets, who has a perfect 4.00 GPA and she is doing so, while majoring in Business Administration. She started 14 of 29 games this season and came on late this season. She averaged 6.8 points per game and 4.9 rebounds per game while shooting 74-161 (.460) from the field. She scored double digits nine times this year and in three straight games including 12 in the win versus Chadron State and a season-high 13 points in the win versus Regis on January 8. She shot 6-8 (.750) from the field in the game. She had eight points and an RMAC-game high of eight rebounds versus Fort Lewis, which she matched with eight rebounds in the loss to the Mavericks. where she went 4-7 from the field and 4-4 from the free throw line. She just missed out on her first double-double of her career versus SDM. She had nine points and a career-high ten rebounds.

School's athletic communication staffs are allowed to nominate up to four student-athletes for a spot on the CSC Academic All-District® list. To be eligible individuals must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically while maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.50 in their academic career and compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played or must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's games.