Ten NSU track and field athletes earn Academic All-Conference, including All-Americans Achee, Bartholomew
Five men and five women from the Northwestern State track and field program – including newly-minted All-Americans Will Achee and Charlie Bartholomew, and five more NCAA regional qualifiers – have earned spots on the Academic All-Southland Conference team.
The Demons who were selected were Achee, Bartholomew, Kalen Beavers, Tarajh Hudson and Seth Smith, while the five Lady Demons who earned spots were Sileena Farrell, Margaret Mannering, Thea Ring, Teodora Samac and Eliska Zahradnickova.
Four of the NSU athletes are making repeat appearances on the team. Achee, Hudson, Farrell and Samac have all been academic all-conference selections before.
Both Achee and Bartholomew earned second-team All-America honors last Wednesday at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a 16th-place finish as members of the 4×400 relay team.
Five others — Beavers, Hudson, Smith, Samac and Zahradnickova—all competed at the NCAA East First Round in Kentucky two weeks earlier.
Achee, a Bossier City native, qualified for the 400-meter dash in the NCAA East First Round in addition to reaching the nationals as a member of the relay.
The Parkway High graduate grabbed one outdoor SLC gold (4×400 relay) and one outdoor silver (400), as well as two indoor silvers (4×400 relay, 400).
Achee, a 2025 All-SLC Academic selection, made the team for the second straight season after sporting a 3.766 GPA while majoring in accounting.
He won two conference weekly awards and broke four school records — the 400 twice in both indoor and outdoor, the 4×400 relay outdoor three times, as well as once in the indoor.
Like Achee, Bartholomew made the NCAA East First Round in the open 400. He was with Achee on the SLC gold medal-winning 4×400 relay team, as well as he finished right behind Achee with the bronze in the open 400 at the conference meet.
Bartholomew sported a GPA of 3.67, majoring in homeland security.
Beavers had a sensational first season with the Demons, ending with a spot on the academic all-conference team.
He was an NCAA East First Round participant in the 100 and won gold as a member of the 4×100 relay team at the conference championship.
At the indoor meet, he was named the SLC Indoor Men’s Athlete of the Year and Indoor Men’s Track Athlete of the Year, as well as the SLC Men’s Indoor Championships MVP after winning gold in both the 60 and 200.
In the classroom, he had a 3.48 GPA while majoring in health and exercise science.
Hudson makes his third appearance on the academic list. A graduate student, he compiled a GPA of 3.5 in health and human performance.
Smith has a perfect 4.0 GPA majoring in accounting and business administration.
On the women’s side, Farrell is a repeat selection and owns a cumulative 3.91 GPA while majoring in health and exercise science.
Mannering, a freshman from Italy, recorded a perfect 4.0 in her first season collegiately, majoring in health and exercise science.
Another 4.0 came from Ring, who did so while majoring in health and human performance.
Samac made the team once again, posting a 3.54 GPA while majoring in health and exercise science.
Zahradnickova, a senior from the Czech Republic, recorded a 3.5 GPA while majoring in health and human performance.