AUSTIN, Texas – The
College Sports Communicators (CSC) released its 2024-25 Academic All-America® Women's At-Large Teams on Tuesday, July 8, with
Bailey Olson and
Megan Goodreau representing UW-River Falls.
The Academic All-America® Teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and academically. The Women's At-Large program includes beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, and water polo. Olson was named to the First Team while Goodreau was selected to the Third Team. The duo are two of five women's ice hockey players on the Division III At-Large Team.
Bailey Olson, a 2025 UWRF graduate and four-year member of the UW-River Falls women's hockey team, is a native of Willmar, Minn., and boasted a cumulative GPA of 3.90 with a degree in Business Administration as a two-time AHCA All-American Scholar and three-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member while wrapping up her career in 2024-25 as a two-time NCAA Division III National Champion and the AHCA Laura Hurd National Player of the Year.
The 2024-25 DIII national scoring leader with 60 points off 27 goals and 33 assists in 31 games played as a co-captain her senior season, Olson led the Falcons to a back-to-back national title along with the program's fourth consecutive WIAC regular season and O'Brien Cup championships. She was also named the WIAC Player of the Year, the DIII Hockey News National Player of the Year, UWRF's 'Falcon Awards' Female Athlete of the Year, along with receiving AHCA First Team All-American, First Team All-WIAC, and NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team accolades.
Megan Goodreau, a junior from Lino Lakes, Minn., finished second behind Olson on the DIII national scoring leaderboard with 49 points off 24 goals and 25 assists this season. Maintaining a 3.66 cumulative GPA as a Finance major, she is a two-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll recipient.
An AHCA First Team All-American, DIII Hockey News First Team All-American, and an All-WIAC First Team member, Goodreau was tied with Olson for the team lead with six power play goals and ranked second with six game-winning goals. She also had six multi-goal games and scored goals in six-straight games Feb. 22-March 28 en route to helping lead UWRF to its second consecutive national championship.
Olson and Goodreau become the second and third Falcons in UWRF women's hockey history to earn Academic All-America laurels, following
Callie Hoff in 2022.