(Wednesday, April 16; Sioux Center, Iowa) The College Sports Communicators have announced the 2024-25 Academic All-America women's basketball teams and Macy Sievers (Junior; Storm Lake, Iowa) and Janie Van Donge (Senior, Hospers, Iowa) have been named to the honor teams. Sievers is a first team selection and Van Donge is a second team pick.

CSC Release 

Sievers was earlier named the NAIA Player of the Year and was a first team NAIA All-American for the second straight year after helping the Defenders to their second straight NAIA National Championship while claiming Outstanding Player of the Tournament honors for the second straight year. She averaged 15.6 points per game this season with 6.5 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 2.9 steals while converting 44.5 percent of her field goals.  She established a new single season assist record this season with 290 and has 732 career assists (1^st all-time), 1,315 career points (8^th all-time), 279 career steals (2^nd all-time)  and 694 career rebounds (13^th all-time). Sievers is an education major,  and has a 3.83 cumulative grade point average.

Van Donge was a second team NAIA All-American this season after earning second team All-GPAC honors in 2023 and 2024.  She earned the NAIA National Championship Hustle Award for a second straight year and was named GPAC Defensive Player of the Year this season. Van Donge averaged 16.3 points per game with 7.8 rebounds per contest and she totaled 1.8 assists and 1.6 steals per outing while converting 56.5 percent of her field goals. Van Donge totaled 1,791 points (4^th all-time) with 1,151 rebounds (1^st all-time) and 147 steals and she converted 59.6 percent (3^rd all-time) of her career field goal attempts. Van Donge will graduate with a degree in exercise science, and she has a 3.80 grade point average.

CSC Academic All-Americans must be nominated by a CSC member and have at least a cumulative 3.5 grade point average and be at least a sophomore academic status.