AUSTIN, Texas – College Sports Communicators (CSC) has announced the annual Academic All-District® teams for women's volleyball. Minnesota State Moorhead had four student-athletes earn a spot on the prestigious team. 
 
Jadyn Feist, Leah Laqua, Amanda Lisi and Brielle Riess all earned nods to the annual team. Feist owns a 3.89 cumulative GPA as a speech, language and hearing sciences major. Laqua turns in a 3.81 GPA as a business administration major while Lisi holds a 3.8 GPA as an actuarial science major. Riess holds a perfect 4.0 GPA as an exercise science major. Laqua and Riess make their first career trips to the Academic All-District Team while Lisi and Feist are two-time honorees. 
 
The 2025-26 Academic All-District® Women's Volleyball Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025-26 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.

It is incumbent upon CSC members to nominate the most outstanding student-athletes at their institution based on the criteria below.
 
Academic standing:

• Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
• Nominee must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination as either an undergraduate or graduate student. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
• Student-athletes who have graduated from their own institution during the current academic year and are not competing in athletics at another institution at the time of nomination are eligible.

 
Academic eligibility:

• An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
• A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
• The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.

 
Athletic eligibility: Sport-specific nomination criteria

Eligible nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's matches played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's matches. Liberos, although not counted in stats as a starter, may be counted as such f