To cap off a spectacular season where she earned multiple post season awards, junior Mia Kalich picked up another award, this one for her work on the court and in the classroom as she earned Academic All America honors on Wednesday afternoon.  Kalich was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All American Division II Women's Basketball Team as a second team selection.  It was her second straight selection as an Academic All American. 

Kalich becomes the second women's basketball player to earn the award joining Tiara Stossel.  She joins track and field athletes, Samuel Hartman, Mallory Sanner, Kaitlyn Germanoski, Aron Kurzinski, Josh Wilks and Erin Beattie, men's basketball players Noah and Nathan Davis, football players Zach Delo, Logan Wiland and Tyler Zimmer, lacrosse player Anthony DeSana, baseball players Tommy Pellis and Brandon Bergert, volleyball athlete Viktoria Farian, wrestler Damon Greenwald and men's soccer player Joe Smith as Griffin athletes to be named Academic All Americans.

A 4.0 engineering and mathematics major, Kalich helped the Griffins to their second straight NCAA Tournament appearance.  

This season Kalich averaged a double double of 14 points and 12.1 rebounds.  Mia led the team in rebounds, steals and assists.  She finished the season with 22 double doubles and three triple doubles.  Kalich led the PSAC in steals and was second in rebounding.  Mia was third in Division II in steals.  Kalich was the PSAC West Defensive Athlete of the Year for the second straight season while earning first team honors from the PSAC West.  Mia also earned D2CCA All Region Second Team selections this season as well.  Kalich was a WBCA All American Honorable Mention selection.  

The Division II Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structure to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025-26 Division II Academic All-America® program.