Rowan’s Mikayla Dansky (softball) and Johnny Troiano (men’s soccer) have been named to the 2025-26 NJAC All-Academic First Team with Nick Struble (baseball) and Jenna O’Neill (women’s lacrosse) being selected to the All-Academic Second Team. Those Profs are joined by 190 Rowan student-athletes who earned NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention for the 2025-26 academic year.
For the tenth consecutive year, the Rowan Volleyball program has been named as one of the 2026 AVCA Team Academic Award winners.
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Over 1,432 collegiate and high school volleyball teams earned a spot on the list from the American Volleyball Coaches Association in maintaining a year-long grade-point average of at least 3.3 on a 4.0 scale.
The Profs boasted a 3.35 team GPA during the 2025-26 academic year.
“It comes as no surprise to see our sport have more than 1,400 teams earn the AVCA Team Academic Award again this season,” said AVCA CEO Jaime Gordon. “We are grateful for the dedication of the coaches and players who make both classroom and on-court success the lifeblood of their programs.”
New head coach and Rowan alum Casey Burford begins her 2026 campaign in Glassboro on Tuesday, September 1st at home as the Profs welcome Franklin & Marshall.
The Marie Rader Series is thrilled to launch its 2026-27 season, entitled “Life & Liberty,” with the New Jersey Symphony’s Rowan University debut.
Geared toward audiences ages 12 and up, the New Jersey Symphony’s July 22nd program provides an educational sampling of chamber music masterworks from four distinct composers, including Felix Mendelssohn, Antonín Dvořák, Florence Price and Jessie Montgomery, in honor of America’s 250th birthday. Four string musicians from this world-class orchestra with local roots will be joined by Rowan University faculty and alumni as special guests.
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Gabby Lisella, who has dedicated 26 years to Rowan Athletics as a coach and administrator, announced her retirement from the University, effective July 1.
As Rowan’s associate athletic director for the past seven years, Lisella was involved with facilities, operations and game management, and served as the sport supervisor for several programs. She oversaw numerous facilities projects, including construction of the new Student-Athlete Weight Room in Esby Gym that is scheduled to open in the fall.
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Fiona Lockhart, Jenna O’Neill and Madison Rothwein of Rowan have been selected to the 2026 Philly-SIDA Women’s Lacrosse Academic All-Area Team as voted on by the Philadelphia metropolitan area’s 30 sports information offices.
Lockhart, a senior computer science major, was named to the 2026 IWLCA All-Region Second Team and was an All-NJAC First Team selection. She was the Profs’ third-leading scorer with career-highs of 42 goals and 19 assists, which included a performance of five goals and two assists in a win over Montclair State.
She was named to the CSC Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team and is a four-time Rowan Scholar-Athlete of Distinction, while earning All-NJAC Honorable Mention for the third time.
Continue reading “Lockhart, O’Neill and Rothwein Named to Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Women’s Lacrosse Team”Rowan’s Austin Kreyenhagen has been selected to the Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Baseball Team as voted on by the Philadelphia metropolitan area’s 30 sports information offices.
Kreyenhagen, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, had a standout year, being named to the 2026 ABCA All-Region Second Team. He topped the Profs’ pitching staff with a 9-1 record, which included two complete games, with one of them being a shutout. The righthander registered 54 strikeouts in 77.1 innings and limited the opponents to a .220 batting average.
Continue reading “Rowan’s Kreyenhagen Named to Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Baseball Team”Rowan’s Mike Dickson has been named the 2026 ABCA/ATEC NCAA Division III Region IV Coach of the Year after guiding the Profs to their second consecutive trip to the NCAA College World Series. It marks the second time that Dickson has earned the region’s top honor, having also achieved the feat in 2021.
In his 12th season at his alma mater, Dickson guided the Profs to a 38-7 record, which ties the most victories in his tenure. Rowan captured the 2026 NJAC Championship, its third title under Dickson, and captured the NCAA Gorham (Maine) Regional title. The Profs then won their second consecutive NCAA Regional NCAA Super Regional Championship by sweeping Randolph-Macon at home, in the first time that Rowan hosted that round of post-season play.
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Rowan field hockey players Paige Gray, Tess Herman and Gracie Merrick and lacrosse players Yasmin Harris, Fiona Lockhart and Jenna O’Neill have been selected to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team.
Herman picks up her second Academic All-District honor while she will also be looking to repeat on the CSC Academic All-America team, which will be announced on July 7.
Gray (Easthampton, NJ/Rancocas Valley Regional) is a sophomore finance major who was a starter for the Profs’ defense, which limited the opponents to just 1.7 goals per game. The sophomore also contributed one goal and three assists on the year. She was named an NFHCA Scholar of Distinction and was selected to the NFHCA Academic Squad.
Herman (Berlin, NJ/Eastern Regional), a sports communication and media major, was named to the NFHCA All-America Second Team in back-to-back seasons. She captured her second NJAC Defensive Player of the Year award and earned her third consecutive selection to both the All-Region IV First Team and the All-NJAC First Team.
Merrick (Phillipsburg, NJ), a junior exercise science major, received All-Region IV First Team honors while also being named to the All-NJAC First Team. Merrick, who contributed three goals and five assists, was named to the NFHCA Academic Squad and was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National Student-Athlete honor society.
Continue reading “Rowan Earns Academic All-District Team”Rowan’s Mason Dorsey has been named to the 2026 ABCA NCAA Division III Region IV All-Defensive Team as voted on by members of the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Dorsey (Hammonton, NJ/St. Augustine Prep), the Profs’ centerfielder, posted a .992 fielding percentage this season, committing only one error in 126 total chances.
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Emily McCutcheon earned national recognition with a spot on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) 2026 Academic All-America® Division III Softball Second Team.
The senior becomes the eighth player in program history to earn the honor and the second in as many seasons to represent the Profs on the teams.
A Psychology major, McCutcheon is a three-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-American, a three-time NFCA First-Team All-Region selection, and a three-time New Jersey Athletic Conference All-Conference pick. In the classroom, she is a two-time CSC Academic All-District and a NJAC All-Academic Honorable Mention as well as a Rowan Scholar of Distinction and a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma national student-athlete honor society.