WAVERLY, Iowa – College Sports Communicators (CSC) released its annual men's basketball Academic All-District honorees, where Wartburg's Lyle Olsen and Drake Wemark both earned their first career CSC honor.

This marks the third time in the past four seasons men's basketball has had two Academic All-District honorees. Olsen and Wemark are 10th and 11th individuals in program history to earn this honor. 

Nomination Criteria from the CSC
Academic Criteria

• An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
• A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
• The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.

Athletic Criteria

• Student-athletes must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's games

Wartburg's All-Time CSC (formerly known as CoSIDA) Academic All-District Recipients
1970-71 Dave Platte (Team not listed)
1971-72 Dave Platte, Tim Koch (Team not listed)
1972-73 Fred Waldstein (Team not listed)
1973-74 Fred Waldstein (Team not listed)
1989-90 Dan Nettleton, First-team; Todd Reinhardt, First-team
1990-91 Dan Nettleton (Team not listed)
2010-11 Cole Danielson Second team
2014-15 Dan Van Groningen, First-team
2017-18 Nate Woeste, First-team
2022-23 Trent Allard, Codey Hicks (No teams listed from 2022-23 on)
2023-24 Trent Allard, Richie Rosenblum
2024-25 Richie Rosenblum
2025-26 Lyle Olsen, Drake Wemark