ST. JOSEPH, Minn. -- Jaylyn Ahlberg, Lauren Berg, Emerson Knapp, Mary Kenney and Lucy Lyngen of the College of Saint Benedict track and field/cross country team have been named 2024-25 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® Women's Track & Field / Cross Country honorees (June 24).

The CSC recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletics and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA. 

This represents the third straight year that CSB has had four student-athletes in track and field/cross country named CSC Academic All-District.

 

Ahlberg, a junior exercise science major from Shoreview, Minn., earned her second straight CSC Academic All-District honor. Ahlberg has 17 career wins in the pole vault, including four straight at MIAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships in 2024 and 2025. Ahlberg, who was named Academic All-MIAC in 2023-24, captured her fourth career MIAC pole vault crown at the 2025 outdoor league championships. Ahlberg cleared 3.58m - 11-09, in earning All-MIAC honors. Ahlberg won the 2025 MIAC Indoor title with a vault of 3.56 meters (11-08.00). In 2024, she qualified for the NCAA DIII Championships where she placed 18^th with a vault of 3.56M - 11-08. At the 2024 MIAC Outdoor Championships, she won the pole vault at 3.71M - 12-02, a mark that ranks third all-time at CSB. She also won the 2024 MIAC Indoor pole vault at 3.76M - 12-04, which is second on CSB's all-time list.

 

Berg, a junior biology/pre-medicine major from Bemidji, Minn., earned her first CSC Academic All-District honor. Berg, who was Academic All-MIAC in 2023-24, had an outstanding year. At the MIAC Outdoor Championships in 2025, she was All-MIAC by finishing second in the 400-meter hurdles with a clocking of 1:02.18, which broke the school record of 1:02.42 set by Megan Sundstrom in 2017. Berg has earned All-MIAC honors in the 400-meter hurdles in three consecutive years. She also earned honorable mention All-MIAC as a member of the sixth place 4x400-meter relay team, which clocked 4:02.10 for 10th best in program history. She was All-MIAC at the MIAC Indoor Championship by placing second in the 800-meter with a clocking 2:17.65, a mark that ranks fourth all-time at St. Ben's. She also earned honorable mention All-MIAC in placing fourth in the 600-meter in 1:36.98, a mark that ranks fifth all-time at CSB. Additionally, she was part of the 4x400-meter relay that claimed honorable mention All-MIAC with a fourth-place finish in 4:07.48. In total, she has 12 career All-MIAC honors, including both six indoors and outdoors. In addition, Berg has recorded 49 top three finishes, including 21 career titles.

 

Kenney, a junior nursing major from Saint Paul, Minn., earned her first CSC Academic All-District honor. A standout in cross country and track and field, she earned All-MIAC honors by finishing third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2025 MIAC Outdoor Championships. In that event, she had a career-best and the third-best clocking in school history of 11:17.98. At the MIAC Indoor Championship in 2025, she was seventh in the 5,000-meters at 18:35.67. She has earned Academic All-MIAC honors in cross country and track and field in 2024 and 2025. In her career, she has had 29 top 8 finishes, including three titles. In cross country, she recorded the 19^th best 6,000-meter performance in school history at the Jim Drews and Tori Neugebauer Invite on Oct. 15, 2022. She was 22^nd at the 2022 MIAC Cross Country Championship as she earned honorable mention All-MIAC honors. At the 2023 MIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship, she was seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

 

Emerson Knapp, a senior global business leadership major from Aurora, Colorado, earned her first CSC Academic All-District honor. At CSB she was Academic All-MIAC in track and field in 2023 and 2024 while earning five All-MIAC honors (two titles) and three honorable mention All-MIAC honors. She was a member of the 4x400-meter relay team that finish sixth at the 2025 MIAC Outdoor Championships. Knapp helped that relay team record a time of 4:02.10 for 10^th all-time at CSB. At the 2025 MIAC Indoor Championship, she was a member of the 4x400-meter relay (4:07.38) and the distance member relay (12:49.46), which earned honorable mention All-MIAC honors with fourth place finishes. At the 2024 MIAC Indoor Championships, she was All-MIAC as a member of the title-winning distance medley relay at (12:22.85). At the 2024 MIAC Outdoor Championships she was a member of the third place 4x400-meter relay (3:56.72). In 2023, she earned All-MIAC honors in the 4x400-meter relay at the MIAC Outdoor Championships. In addition, Knapp earned a pair of All-MIAC honors at the 2023 MIAC Indoor Championship by leading the Bennies to a title in the distance medley relay (12:29.19) and placed third as a member of CSB's 4x400-meter relay (4:09.26).

 

Lyngen, a graduate student in the school of theology from Rogers, Minn., earned her first CSC Academic All-District honor. A six-time Academic All-MIAC honoree, she earned honorable mention All-MIAC honors with her top 25 finish (24th, 24:39) at the 2024 MIAC Cross Country Championship. In fall of 2024, Lyngen had a personal-best and the 29th best clocking in program history with a 6K time of 23:27.5 at the Augustana Interregional Invite on Oct. 19. The result came 10 days after Lyngen set the program 4K record of 14:45.7 at the Bob Waxlax Invitational on Oct. 9. At the 2025 MIAC Outdoor Championships, she was honorable mention All-MIAC in the 5,000-meters with an 18:30.50 clocking for sixth place. She earned honorable mention All-MIAC honors as part of the distance medley relay which was fourth in 12:49.56 at the MIAC Indoor Championship in 2025.