Sophomore
Molly Winner's 2025 track and field season featured many firsts – and that continued for both herself and the Ashland University athletic department on Tuesday (July 15) afternoon.
Winner was named a third-team College Sports Communicators (CSC) NCAA Division II women's track & field/cross country Academic All-America on Tuesday – the first-such honor of her AU career. That citation also gives the Eagle athletic department eight overall in 2024-25 – the most for the department in any given academic year since the first was earned in 1966-67.
Sporting a 3.66 cumulative grade-point average through the 2025 spring semester as an Education (Primary Grades Intervention Specialist PK-5) major, Winner earned her first four D-II All-American awards this past winter and spring, among many other 2025 honors:
- Second place at 2025 indoor nationals in weight throw
- Third place at 2025 outdoor nationals in hammer throw
- Sixth place at 2025 indoor nationals in shot put
- Seventh place at 2025 outdoor nationals in shot put
- CSC Academic All-District
- U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) outdoor all-region (twice)
- USTFCCCA indoor all-region (twice)
- Great Midwest Athletic Conference women's outdoor Field Athlete of the Year
- Great Midwest outdoor champion in hammer throw and shot put
- Great Midwest women's indoor Field Athlete of the Year
- Great Midwest co-women's indoor Field Athlete of the Meet
- Great Midwest indoor champion in weight throw and shot put
Winner helped the Eagle women to both indoor and outdoor Great Midwest team championships, as well as D-II national placements of tied for 12
th indoors and 16
th outdoors, in 2025.
Ashland student-athletes now have earned 121 Academic All-American honors all-time. Of those, 17 have been earned by track and field/cross country student-athletes.