GREENWOOD, Ind. College Sports Communicators (CSC, formerly CoSIDA) released on Tuesday its women's basketball 2024-25 Academic All-District® Teams for NCAA Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, with Western Colorado's
Rachel Cockman,
Alyssa Eckroth,
Ivey Schmidt and
Brooklyn Seymour earning inclusion on the DII list.
This is Cockman's second all-district award following up on last year's honor, while Eckroth, Schmidt and Schmidt pick up their first CSC awards.
Both Cockman and Schmidt were also selected to advance to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced on April 16.
Submitted by an institution's CSC-member athletics communications personnel, nominees for CSC All-District® consideration must have a grade point average of at least 3.50 and must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically. Basketball nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played or must start in at least 66% of the institution's games.
Cockman was voted to the 2024-25 first-team Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic team along with the 2024-25 first-team All-RMAC team. An exercise & sport science major with a 3.88 GPA, the senior Mountaineer passed the 1,000-point career plateau during the season and finished her career with a total of 1,199 points.
She posted seven double-doubles this winter and ended the season ninth in the RMAC in rebounding and third in blocked shots. Cockman's 369 points, 213 rebounds and 36 blocks were each single-season career highs.
Schmidt was also a first-team All-RMAC selection while earning RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll inclusion. A junior biology major with a 3.63 GPA, she led Western in scoring with a 13.2 points per game average, in assists with 2.7 per game, and trailed only Cockman in rebounding by pulling down 5.7 per game.
She scored in double figures 20 times over the course of the season, including six times with 20+ points. Schmidt was 14th in scoring, 16th in rebounding, and 13th in steals (32 total) in the RMAC.
Eckroth played in all 29 games during the season and was one of the first players off the bench. A sophomore biology major with a 3.79 GPA, Eckroth scored 5.1 PPG, came away with 3.0 RPG, and led Western at the free throw line, hitting 62 of 74 attempts (84%).
Seymour started and played in 28 games and was third on the team in rebounding with a 5.3 RPG mark. A senior business administration major with a 3.73 GPA, she averaged 5.0 PPG, led the Mountaineers in steals with 34 and was second in assists (42). Seymour's 148 rebounds and 34 steals were single-season career highs.
Cockman, Schmidt, Eckroth and Seymour helped lead Western to a 21-8 overall record in the 2024-25 season – just the fourth 20-win season in program history and second only to the 1986-87 team's 22 wins.
The Mountaineers earned a spot in the RMAC postseason tournament for the first time since the 2021-22 season, and with their quarterfinal win advanced to the semifinal round for the first time since the 2020-21 campaign.
