Three members of the TCNJ women’s basketball team were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team, according to a Mar. 24 announcement from the organization. Katie Fricker received her second consecutive honor, while Myah Hourigan-Hutton and Maddie Bernhardt earned the distinction for the first time. This marks the third straight season that three Lions have been recognized.
The Academic All-District Teams are selected by College Sports Communicators and recognize top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in academics. The program highlights honorees across four divisions: NCAA Division I, II, III, and NAIA.
Fricker, a senior nursing major with a 3.65 GPA, was recognized for both her academic achievements and her performance on the court. She earned All-NJAC Second Team honors after averaging career-highs in scoring (12 points), rebounds (6.9), assists (2.3), and steals (1.6) this season—the latter leading her team. Fricker’s late-season play included averages of 15 points and seven rebounds during TCNJ’s run to its first New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship since 2009, followed by a team-high 13 points in their first NCAA Tournament game since 2018.
Hourigan-Hutton started all 28 games for TCNJ this season while maintaining a GPA of 3.5 as a communication studies major. She averaged personal bests in scoring (4.1) and rebounds (4.7) per game, also improving her shooting percentage to a career-high of nearly forty percent during her final year.
Bernhardt made her debut on the Academic All-District list as a sophomore kinesiology & health sciences major with a GPA of 3.91—her first eligible year for recognition—and increased her scoring average more than threefold compared to last season to reach eight points per game this year. Bernhardt was also one of TCNJ’s most effective shooters with fifty made three-pointers at over thirty-seven percent accuracy; she scored thirty-three points against Rutgers-Newark in just twenty-one minutes after making seven three-pointers.
This continued recognition reflects both academic commitment and athletic success among members of TCNJ’s women’s basketball program.
