The College of Wooster's Brooke Benjamin, Morgan Erdmann, Lizzie Hardy, Abby Haywood, Mizan Jacobs, and Natalie Katzenmeyer were named College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District® for women's at-large sports on Tuesday.

Benjamin earned the honor for field hockey, where she started 12 games this fall. Benjamin finished as the team leader with two assists and fifth in points with four. One of the team's top offensive players, Benjamin took the third-most shots (17) and shots on goal (seven). Benajmin's junior-year goal came against Denison University. In lacrosse, Benjamin played in six games and missed some time due to injury.

Benjamin is participating in Georgia Institute of Technology's Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer. Benajmin is taking part in astrophysics research focused on IceCube neutrino observatory collaboration. For Junior Independent Study, Benjamin investigated orbital dynamics of massive spinning and non-spinning test particles near Schwarzschild black holes. Benjamin's research focused on how spin affects orbit trajectories, stability, and behavior for massive particles. Benjamin interned with Leidos, performing data analysis on the NASA Universal Stage Adapter, a composite rocket piece for the human-rated space launch system and future Artemis missions. Benjamin was tasked with completing a correlation study and characterizing porosity through nondestructive testing. An original summer internship was extended through the school year as the project team was in the process of pursuing publication. On campus, Benjamin spent time as a galaxy evolution research assistant. She is a member of the Goodwill Industries service house program, a STEM Zone intern for introductory physics, and was a member of the College's Student Leadership Institute.

Erdmann ranked second on Wooster's team with an 87.5 average this year. She became the fifth in program history to earn multiple medalist honors, finishing with the top score of 84 in a dual with Ohio Wesleyan University in April. Erdmann moved into the program's top-five for top-10 finishes with a ninth-place 177 at the Eva Shorb Weiskopf Invitational. She posted four top-10 finishes on the year, starting with a ninth-place 82 at the University of Mount Union Fall Invitational. Erdmann's low round of 78 came in the final round of Heidelberg University's Fall Invitational.

Erdmann is in the process of applying to medical school and working in a Columbus-area hospital's psych department this summer. The two-time CSC Academic All-District® qualifier is a research assistant on campus performing Bradford Assay and ELISA experiments to quantify protein expression in Aedes Japonicus. Erdmann identified the presence of viruses using RNA-sequence and qPCR for genomic analysis. Last fall, Erdmann crafted a research proposal aiming to identify how mutations in ScHTK proteins affect quaternary structures. Last summer, Erdmann was a secret shopper for the Preventing Tobacco Addiction. Erdmann visited various locations selling tobacco products and attempted to purchase the products underage. She provided information on successful purchases for submission to Ohio lawmakers. On campus, Erdmann is a health coach with Wooster Community Hospital, visiting local patients in the community once a week to take vital signs, discuss conditions, and provide education about their health. She is a campus captain for The Hidden Opponent, attending monthly seminars educating captains on ways to provide mental health support to their campuses.

Hardy capped her career with USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America status and she was the NCAC's Midfielder of the Year as a senior. The three-time All-NCAC midfielder broke the program's career record for draw controls with 411, a record 132 of which came this spring. Hardy led Wooster back to the NCAA Div. III Championship where the program won its first-round game for the second straight year and tied its program record with 17 victories. Hardy became the second player in program history to surpass 200 career groundballs, and her 66 as a senior are the fourth-most in program history. Hardy earned two All-NCAC honors in field hockey, regularly finishing the year among the team leaders in every offensive statistical category.

Hardy earned the CSC Academic All-District® honor for both field hockey and lacrosse and this is her second time receiving this award. The business economics alumna was selected as Wooster's women's sport recipient of the NCAC Scholar-Athlete Award. In 2024, Hardy spent the summer studying abroad in Spain, gaining industry insight into global perspectives in the areas of international marketing, branding, and fan engagement. Last fall, Hardy was part of a team that conducted an impact analysis for a local food business in Wooster. She looked at how adding or subtracting sports teams from a college's athletics offerings affects the institution's financial sustainability. Hardy was involved with Wooster's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was part of the service house program partnered with People-to-People Ministries in Wooster.

Haywood's junior year ended with third-team All-NCAC honors. Haywood led the team with an 86 average. Haywood played in 17 rounds and posted a quartet of top-10 finishes, headlined by fifth-place showings at the Susquehanna University Spring Invitational and the Eva Shorb Weiskopf Invitational. Haywood's 83 at Susquehanna led Wooster to a runner-up finish in the 14-team field. Her low of 79 at the University of Mount Union Fall Invitational was good for a sixth-place finish. She matched that score in the second round of the NCAC Championship.

Haywood is interning with Brookhaven National Lab's nuclear isotope production division this summer in Long Island, New York. Haywood's summer research project is looking at the separation and purification of radioisotopes. The chemistry major researched 4-hydroxycoumarin derivatives through the sophomore research program at Wooster. Haywood spent last summer as a researcher in computational and experimental spectroscopy at Ohio State University. Haywood worked in a laser lab building and testing a nanosecond transient absorption spectrometer and gained experience in optics, laser safety, and instrument building. Haywood is part of the Scot Symphonic Band, is president of the chemistry club, and is a stockroom assistant. This is Haywood's first CSC Academic All-District® honor.

Jacobs debuted on the All-NCAC team as a third-team selection. She tracked down 85 draw controls as a sophomore, the eighth-most in single-season program history. Jacobs netted 48 goals, the fourth-most on the team, and had 59 points for fifth on Wooster's 2026 squad. The midfielder scooped 29 groundballs and caused 14 turnovers. She helped Wooster to a top-five national statistical ranking in scoring offense and draw controls per game this spring.

Jacobs is playing for the Chilean National Team in the Heritage Cup this summer and will be studying abroad in Copenhagen this fall. The first-time CSC Academic All-District® selection works as a food runner and hostess at El Nido back home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a broadcaster for home volleyball streams.

Katzenmeyer started all 13 games as a senior and had a goal and assist for three points. Katzenmeyer assisted on Hardy's game-winning goal in the 4-0 victory over Transylvania University and put a rebound into the back of the cage for her own score against the Pioneers. Katzenmeyer was a four-year starter, finishing with nine goals and three assists over 56 games.

The first-time CSC Academic All-District® honoree is working at the Cleveland Clinic as a computational researcher in drug design. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience in the future. For Independent Study, Katzenmeyer integrated spatial transcriptomics atlases to characterize hippocampal interneurons. Last summer, Katzenmeyer was a discovery accelerator intern with the Cleveland Clinic and IBM. She built automated computational workflows enabling future researchers to analyze drug-receptor interactions, which reduced analysis time in half and accelerated time-to-insight for preclinical drug candidates. Katzenmeyer was a neuroscience research assistant at the Karolinska Institute while studying abroad in Sweden. There, Katzenmeyer analyzed large-scale protcomic datasets to help prioritize research targets and focus team efforts on most promising therapeutic opportunities for Alzheimer's. She improved experimental workflows by optimizing protocols, improving data quality, and overall research efficiency. Katzenmeyer was a research assistant on campus and at the University of South Carolina. The alumna was a teaching assistant and served as the public address announcer for lacrosse contests. She was actively involved with the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and was a member of the campus chapter of the Nu Rho Psi neuroscience honor society.

Each school with the CSC membership may submit up to six nominations for women's at-large sports Academic All-District®. At-large contest sports Wooster sponsors on the women's side are field hockey, golf, and lacrosse. Each nominee must be at least a sophomore in academic standing, have at least a 3.5 cumulative GPA, and meet their sport's participation requirement to be nominated.