Cate Barkdoll and Lizzie Hardy from The College of Wooster field hockey team, Morgan Erdmann and Maddie Moran from the women's golf team, and Hardy, Kenzie Morris, and Lexi Sarne from the women's lacrosse team were named College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District®, as announced by the organization on Tuesday afternoon.
Barkdoll, a junior, earned a second consecutive All-North Coast Athletic Conference nod, landing on the third-team. Barkdoll started all 14 games and ranked third league-wide in saves (121) and save percentage (.791). Barkdoll's save percentage was 23rd nationally and the junior had a 2.21 goals-against average. Barkdoll capped the year with a career-best 20 saves against Ohio Wesleyan University, with that total marking the fifth-most in single-game history. Barkdoll had five other double-digit save outings in 2024.
The environmental geoscience major earned Academic All-District® honors for softball and is on the Academic All-America® ballot for that sport. Barkdoll debuted on the All-NCAC team as a first-team catcher after hitting .361 (39-for-108) with a team-leading 32 RBI and six homers. Barkdoll set a new program record, throwing out 23 base stealers on the year and is in line to finish as the Div. III statistical champion for the 2025 season.
Hardy earned her second All-NCAC honor in women's lacrosse after being an instrumental part of the program's historic season, which saw Wooster win a NCAA Tournament game for the first time and win a program-best 17 games. Hardy's 119 draw controls led Wooster and rate as the second-most in single-season program history. That brought the junior's three-year total to 279, and she is second in career draws, trailing the program record by just 35. The junior added 58 groundballs, 38 goals, 22 caused turnovers, and 10 assists. She had seven games with at least seven draw controls, led by a high of 10 in a win at Kenyon College.
In field hockey, Hardy earned her first All-NCAC honor, landing on the third-team. She started all 14 games and facilitated Wooster's offense with a team-leading four assists. Hardy's 44 shots were tops on the team and ranked sixth within the NCAC. She scored the game-winner against Concordia University Wisconsin and passed out a pair of assists in Wooster's win over Earlham College. In shootouts, Hardy converted in both victories against Oberlin College.
The business economics major is part of the College's entrepreneurship pathway. She took part in Student-Athletes Abroad's summer program last year in Spain. She took a sports marketing course with an international marketing strategy focus while abroad. She previously worked as a lifeguard. On campus, Hardy is a student intern with game operations and the equipment room. She is a team representative for the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and volunteers with the Wooster Volunteer Network.
Erdmann, a sophomore, earned All-NCAC honors for the second time as a third-team selection. She placed 13th at the NCAC Championship with a 250. That lowered Erdmann's season average to 85.7. Erdmann was the medalist at the University of Mount Union Spring Invitational with a 77, which earned NCAC Athlete of the Week honors. She was fourth at the Grove City College Fall Invitational with an 81 and was runner-up in a dual match with Ohio Wesleyan University with the same score. She led Wooster on day one of conference with a 79.
The biochemistry and molecular biology major is part of the College's entrepreneurship pathway and is in the pre-medicine program. She is working this summer as a psychology technician at Riverside Hospital and is participating in a research project for the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation. Additionally, Erdmann is researching idiopathic interracial hypertension at Nationwide Children's Hospital. At Wooster, Erdmann is part of the College's Community Care Network through a partnership with Wooster Community Hospital. Through this partnership, Erdmann is a health coach and visits local patients to take vitals, provide education, and discuss health conditions. She is the commentator for swimming and diving home meets and invitational streams.
Moran capped her career as a two-time NCAC conference contributor. She opened the NCAC Championship with a career-best 88 and ended the year with a 95.5 average. Moran returned from a longterm injury with a 90 in the opening round of Pfeiffer University's Jack Ingram Women's Invitational, which tied her collegiate-best. She followed with a 95 in round two and was in the top-20 in the field at the University of Mount Union Spring Invitational with a 93.
The data science and sports analytics alumna used Markov processes to analyze the impact of Div. I volleyball front row attackers. Specifically, Moran examined if putting a stronger hitter in a certain position would lead to a different outcome. She spent the summer between her sophomore and junior years as a business intelligence intern with the Columbus Blue Jackets. There, Moran collected and cleaned data from Zoomph and the native platforms from each of the team's social media accounts and worked with the business intelligence team to incentivize fan engagement. On campus, Moran worked within game operations. Chief among her duties there was serving as the official scorer for home women's basketball games. She was heavily involved with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was the vice president for the NCAC SAAC. Moran was the SAAC representative for NCAC Sports Caucus meetings as a senior and presented conference-wide SAAC updates to NCAC athletic administrators. Moran was a campus captain for The Hidden Opponent mental health advocacy organization and a student ambassador for Morgan's Message, which is another mental health awareness advocacy organization. Moran was the sports editor for the student newspaper and hosted a radio show on the campus radio station.
Morris turned in one of the top all-around careers in program history, helping lead the program to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and a program-record 17 wins. She graduated as the program's 18th four-time All-NCAC selection and scored 41 goals as a senior, marking her fourth time scoring over 40 goals. Her 187 goals are the third-most in program history, while her 235 points are fourth at Wooster. Morris became the first player in program history to log 200 career points and 200 career draw controls. She finished with 236 draw controls, the fourth-most in program history. Morris added a career-high 22 caused turnovers, a career-high 34 groundballs, and a career-high 20 assists to her 2025 stat line.
The environmental studies and urban studies alumna researched the effectiveness of a newly-discovered European garlic mustard aphid as a biocontrol for garlic mustard. As garlic mustard is an invasive plant in the United States and had no effective predators until the discovery of the aphid, Morris utilized the opportunity to be one of the early researchers on the effects of it. Heavily involved in sustainability, Morris led the return of the Reuzzi reusable mug program on campus. She worked as a sustainability intern where she helped plan events, create environmental education materials, and promote sustainability across campus. While studying abroad in Australia, Morris studied sustainability and environmental action. Last summer, Morris was a conservation intern at Holden Forest and Gardens. She monitored and collected seeds for rare plant populations and managed invasive plants to preserve biodiversity. Morris performed field, forest, and wetland assessments for the organization and assisted with timber stand improvement through invasive species removal and girdling. Morris was the statistics spotter for home field hockey games.
Sarne capped her career as a USA Lacrosse Magazine honorable mention All-American. The backfield leader for Wooster's record-breaking season started all 21 games and finished with 33 caused turnovers and 30 groundballs. She led the team in caused turnovers, and really turned it on in the postseason, with 10 of the caused turnovers coming during the NCAC and NCAA tournaments. She had four caused turnovers against DePauw University in the semifinal of the NCAC Tournament and followed that with four more against Denison University in the championship game.
The neuroscience alumna performed a procedure where she injected a virus into the brain of mice for her Independent Study. The injection allowed her to tag neurons in the hippocampus that relate to a certain conditioned memory, and administer a drug that inhibits serotonin, something known to decrease memory. She spent last summer as a researcher in the neuroscience department at Baylor College of Medicine. There, she studied locust behavioral plasticity. With this research, Sarne collected and analyzed behavioral data of locust and grasshopper escape behavior. She assessed behavioral and physiological differences between species, isolated and crowded phases, and instar stages. Earlier in her undergraduate studies, Sarne was a researcher at Medical University of South Carolina. She assessed the efficacy and accuracy of two different methods of deep brain stimulation electrode implantation methods for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. In Wooster, Sarne was a volunteer for People to People ministries and was a teaching assistant for neuroscience courses. Sarne was a four-year play-by-play commentator on field hockey streams and assisted with other sports when needed. She will be pursuing a Ph.D. degree in biomedical sciences with a concentration in neuroscience.
Colleges and universities with CSC memberships may nominate up to six student-athletes for the women's at-large contest. Eligible sports for Wooster in the at-large contest are field hockey, women's golf, and women's lacrosse. The athletic criteria differs per sport in the at-large contest, but all honorees must be at least a sophomore with a 3.50 cumulative GPA.
