AUSTIN, Texas – Montevallo's Alex Egorshin & Brandon Shaffner, and Lander's Carter Wilcox have been named College Sports Communicators (CSC) At-Large Academic All-Americans, it was announced Wednesday.
Egorshin, the Peach Belt Conference's Defensive Player of the Year, tallied his second consecutive First Team Academic All-America honor with a 4.00 cumulative GPA as a Chemistry major in his junior year. On the field, the Hoover, Ala. native played a total of 856:41 minutes in goal while leading the PBC with a 10.97 goals against average with a .601 save percentage on an average of 14.75 goals per game. Egorshin joins a total of 17 other student-athletes as repeat selections to the Academic All-America team after earning the award following the 2024 season.
Shaffner, one of the top faceoff specialists in all of Div. II, earned his Second Team Academic All-America honor with a 4.00 cumulative GPA in his Exercise and Nutrition Science courses. The senior finished the season with the third-highest faceoff win percentage in the nation with a mark of .697 while posting a 230-for-330 mark at the dot. The Louisville, Ky. native set a Montevallo record with 139 ground balls on the season while setting a career best with 28 wins against Emmanuel on Feb. 1.
Wilcox, the 2025 Peach Belt Conference Co-Attackman of the Year, a USILA and USA Lacrosse Magazine All-American, and USILA All-Region honoree, graduated with a 3.68 GPA in Business Administration this May. He joins former Bearcats
James Linn and
Nicholas Paige to become the third CSC Academic All-American in program history. Wilcox, who is an At-Large Second Team honoree, is also the 17th student-athlete in Lander's history to earn this award. Wilcox advanced from the Academic All-District ballot last month before earning All-American status – only 45 Division II student-athletes made the At-Large Team.The Harrisburg, North Carolina, native set program records for career points (235) and points in a season (85, 2025). Wilcox's 48 goals and 37 assists helped lead the Bearcats to the PBC Regular Season championship this year.
A rigorous selection process, an undergraduate student-athlete must be at least a sophomore both academically and athletically; carry a 3.50 cumulative GPA; and in the case of men's lacrosse, compete in 90% of a team's games or start 66% of them while being an impactful presence on and off the field.