PORTLAND, Ore. – On the volleyball court, hitting in the .200 range is a good, in the .300s is very good, and .400 or higher is great.
 
In the classroom, Seattle Pacific players are doing even better than that.
 
They're hitting 1.000.
 
Of the seven Falcons who were eligible for nomination to this year's Great Northwest Athletic Conference All-Academic team, all seven made the grade when the squad was announced on Tuesday.
 
Leading the way is three-time honoree Gabi Stegemoller, joined by second-timers Maddie Batiste and Erin Gould, and first-time selections Ashley Antoniak, Paige Dawson, Austin Ibale, and Lindsey Lambert.
 
Athletes be a sophomore or older, and must be in at least their second year of competition at their school to be nominated for the All-Academic team.
 
On top of that, they must have a 3.20 or higher grade-point average. Those aforementioned players met the sophomore / second-year criteria– and all seven easily exceeded the minimum GPA. (The other 10 Falcons on the roster are either freshmen or redshirt freshmen, so will be eligible for consideration next season.)
 
Going 7-for-7, such as it were, clearly delighted head coach Abbie Wright.
 
 

"I just really think their work ethic shows on and off the court," she said. "I'm really proud that they're embracing the mindset of working hard in all aspects of their life. … They really care about who they're gong to be when they leave here, and that's what we care about. I think the GPA is a product of those internal goals of being a great human being."
 
 

Stegemoller, a senior middle blocker, is a nursing major with a 3.73 GPA. During the 2019 season, she recorded 72 blocks, the second-highest total on the team. She finished with a career single-season best 139 kills and 179 points.
 
 

Senior outside hitter Batiste has a 3.39 GPA as a communications major. She had a breakout season in 2019, setting career highs in almost every major statistical category, and had 15 kill-dig double-doubles for the season. So far during the abbreviated 2021 spring season, she has logged a team-leading 73 kills.
 
 

Gould, a junior, is a political science major with a 3.74 GPA. The outside hitter has 42 kills and is hitting a career-best .214 this season. She also has gotten her hands onto 12 total blocks. In 2019, she played in all 28 matches with 22 starts, and was on the court for all 105 games, setting single-season career bests across the statistical spectrum. 
 
 

Antoniak is a sophomore opposite with a 3.73 GPA as a business administration major. After getting limited playing time as a freshman in 2019, she is seeing more regular action this spring, and set a career high with 10 kills in a five-game victory at Saint Martin's on March 2. She also had 17 digs in that match for her first career double-double.
 
 

Dawson carries a 3.66 GPA in nutrition and dietetics. A sophomore serving and defensive specialist, she already has set two career highs for digs this season, coming up with 15 at in a five-gamer at Saint Martin's on March 2, and topping that with 25 in the second match against Alaska Anchorage on March 20.
 
 

Ibale, a sophomore setter, is a psychology major with a 3.76 GPA. A setter, she has become a regular part of SPU's rotation this season, playing in six of the seven matches so far. In the season-opener at Northwest University on Feb. 27, Ibale set a career high with 22 assists, and has recorded two more double-digit assist matches since then, picking up her 100^th career assist on March 20 in the second Alaska Anchorage contest.
 
 

Lambert is also a sophomore, and also a setter. She is an applied human biology major with a 3.76 GPA. As a freshman in 2019, she racked up 876 assists, and collected No. 1,000 on March 19 in a match at Northwest. She had five assist-dig double-doubles during her first year, and has three more this season. Lambert has played in every one of SPU's 35 matches during her two seasons, with double-digit assists in all but one of those.
 
The GNAC All-Academic team is presented by Barnes & Noble College.
 
2020-21 GNAC ALL-ACADEMIC VOLLEYBALL
 

SEATTLE PACIFIC
Name	Academic Major	Year	GPA	Hometown
Ashley Antoniak	Business Administration	So.	3.73	Litchfield Park, Ariz.
* Maddie Batiste	Communications	Sr.	3.39	Portland, Ore.
Paige Dawson	Nutrition & Dietetics	So.	3.66	Spokane, Wash.
* Erin Gould	Political Science	Jr.	3.74	Kent, Wash.
Austin Ibale	Psychology	So.	3.76	Renton, Wash.
Lindsey Lambert	Applied Human Biology	So.	3.65	Beaverton, Ore.
*+ Gabi Stegemoller	Nursing	Sr.	3.73	West Linn, Ore.
* - 2019 All-Academic Selection + - 2018 All-Academic Selection