NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Six members of the Carleton College women's soccer program were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team for 2025. Senior midfielder Ashlyn Haigh and senior forward Kathryn Kresse took home the honor for the third consecutive year, while senior midfielder Claire Burbery was recognized for the second time. Juniors Lola Feurer, Maya Lacey, and Lily Shure each collected their first CSC academic awards.
 
Each school can nominate up to six student-athletes that meet the following criteria:
• at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (a benchmark each of these six Knights easily surpassed)
• compete in at least 90 percent of the institution's games or start at least 66 percent of the contests
• at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
 
Carleton had additional players that also met the above criteria. Unfortunately, they were unable to be honored due to the limits on nominations.
 
All six honorees were starters on the 2025 squad that advanced to the Sectional Final ("Elite 8") of this year's NCAA Championships, the program's third consecutive trip to the national tournament.
 
Haigh, an economics major with an educational studies minor, started all 24 games for the Knights and finished the season with a career high-tying seven goals and a career-best three assists. Two of those goals gave Carleton the lead, while her final tally of the year knotted the "Sweet Sixteen" game versus Swarthmore College at 1-1. She had assists on two game-winning goals: the 1-0 overtime triumph over St. Olaf in the MIAC semifinals and the first score of Carleton's 2-0 victory at Lake Forest in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Knights' defensive midfielder, she helped the team post a .493 goals against average this season, which ranks No. 21 in Division III. Haigh started 82 of a possible 86 games during her career and totaled 19 career goals with eight assists.
 
Kresse, a biology major with a neuroscience minor, scored 6 or more goals in all four seasons, totaling 33 career goals, the second-highest figure in recorded program history. Of that goal total, 19 were game-winning tallies with four of those coming this season, including the opening score of the Knights' 2-0 triumph at previously undefeated/untied Lake Forest in the Second Round of the NCAA Championships. Kresse had eight goals and five assists this season, with her 21 points sitting second on the team. Named to the All-MIAC First Team for the third time this fall, she started all 86 games in her career, the highest total in recorded team history. Her 86 career points are second in team history.
 
Burbery, a biology major, became a key cog for the highest-scoring offense among MIAC squads this season. After four total goals over her first three seasons, she exploded for team-high 10 goals this fall—including a first-half hat trick vs Concordia-Moorhead—along with 5 assists for team-best 25 points. Burbery started 20 of 55 games played spanning her first three seasons, but she started all 24 contests this fall and was a first-team All-MIAC pick. The Knights went 10-1 when she got on the scoresheet, the lone "blemish" being an assist on Carleton's goal in the 2-1 loss at No. 7 U of Chicago in the Elite 8.
 
Feurer, a computer science major, started 23 games in the midfield for the Knights in what was her first season after transferring from Emory University. She scored six 6 goals on the year to rank fourth on the team and accounted for game winners vs. Gustavus Adolphus and St. Olaf, the latter being an overtime goal in the MIAC Semifinals. She had four assists this season, including the game-tying goal in a 1-1 (2OT) draw with Swarthmore College in the Sweet Sixteen and Carleton's goal against Chicago in the Elite 8.
 
Lacey, a biology major, started all 24 games and was second among field players with 2,084 minutes played. She had made only six starts over her first two seasons at Carleton, but the graduation of two-time All-American centerback Piper Dean opened a full-time spot it the lineup, and Lacey filled it exceptionally well as she helped the Knights post a program-record 16 shutouts this season. In games against UW-La Crosse (103 goals) and Lake Forest (86 goals)—the No. 1 and No. 4 scoring offenses in D-III and averaging a combined 4.2 goals per game—she helped limit those teams to a combined total of 2 goals.
 
Shure, a physics major with an English creative writing minor, played only 351 minutes over 21 total games her first two seasons with the Knights but filled a key role this fall as she started all 24 games, splitting time between the midfield and the backline. She tied for fourth on the team with four assists—three of them on game-winning goals—and added 2 goals, including the game winner against then No. 14-ranked University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
 
Burbery, Feurer, Haigh, and Kresse were selected to advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced Dec. 17.