UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Six Penn State women’s soccer players garnered College Sports Communicators Academic All-District accolades, the organization announced Tuesday afternoon.
CSC seeks to honor and celebrate student-athletes who represent the highest caliber of academic and athletic achievement through the annual Academic All-District and Academic All-America programs. The Nittany Lions placed senior defender Eva Alonso, graduate goalkeeper Katherine Asman, senior+ midfielder Cori Dyke, senior+ forward Payton Linnehan, senior+ defender Kate Wiesner and senior midfielder Natalie Wilson on the esteemed list. Alonso, Asman, Dyke, Wiesner and Wilson earned back-to-back appearances after appearing on the team a year ago.
A native of Madrid, Spain, Alonso’s efforts in the holding midfield for the Nittany Lions have been instrumental to the program’s success over the course of the 2023 season. The veteran has started in 21 of Penn State’s 22 matches played this season and leads the attack in assists with seven dishes this year, a single-season career-best mark. Alonso owns nine points on the season split between her seven assists and a goal scored against Indiana in the B1G Tournament Quarterfinals. In the classroom, Alonso maintains an impressive 3.86 grade point average studying mathematics. She earns her second consecutive CSC Academic All-District nod and owns two prior selections as both a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-B1G choice.
Asman has cemented herself as one of the strongest goalkeepers in women’s college soccer, booking the best goals-against average in the Big Ten Conference and the 16th-best GAA in Division I with a 0.577 mark between the posts this season. The Roswell, Georgia, native moved into the top three at Penn…
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