CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Six Lesley University women's soccer student-athletes - forward Kylie Chagnon (Framingham, Mass.), midfielder Zoe Curtaz (Novato, Calif.), defenderMaddy Duskocy (Ellington, Conn.), goalkeeper Madison Reed (Burlingame, Calif.), midfielder Bethany Slivka (Berkley, Mass.) and defender Rachel Weinzimer (Woodland Hills, Calif.) have been named to the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team, as announced by the organization.
To be eligible, nominated student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) in their second year at the current institution and must have played in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
View the full 2025 CSC Men's Soccer Academic All-District Squad here.
A double major in Health Sciences and Psychology, Chagnon, received a GPA of 3.55. This is her first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team appearance. She received the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honors her sophomore year.
This season Chagnon scored five goals while playing in 20 games. On September 28, she scored two in a 5-0 win over SUNY Cobleskill. Chagnon also added two helpers this year, bringing her total points to 12.
A captain as well as a Political Science/Global Studies major with a 3.99 GPA, Curtaz received her second consecutive College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team and third consecutive North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honors.
On the pitch, Curtaz followed her junior NAC East Division All-Conference First Team season with another impressive one. She played in all 21 games and scored three goals, two of which were game winners. She also had five assists this season, totaling 11 points.
Duskocy, a senior English & Elementary Education major received her first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team distinction with a 3.89 GPA. She earned North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honors in 2023.
That same year Duskocy was named the 2023 Lesley Women's Soccer Lynx Award recipient. This season the captain scored a goal and added a helper while playing in all 21 of the Lynx's games this season.
Reed, a team captain and Creative Writing major, secured her first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team honor with a GPA of 3.64 in her senior season.
The decorated goalie received a spot on the NECC Del Malloy Sportsmanship team in her first year and North Atlantic Conference (NAC) All-Conference First Team in her sophomore season. In the Lynx most recent season, she played in 15 games totaling 1,321 minutes, nearly double her previous total. Reed recorded five shutouts and five wins.
Slivka was awarded her first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team honor. The Animation major earned a 3.97 GPA. In her freshman year, she earned 2023 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honors.
The junior scored a goal and assisted the other three in a 4-0 win over UMaine Farmington on October 11th. She finished the season with two goals this fall and added nine assists, totaling 13 points in 20 games.
Finally, Weinzimer is also a Health Science/Psychology major here at Lesley who finished with a 3.96 GPA. The athletic and academic weapon received both an NAC East Division All-Conference Second Team honor and a CSC Academic All-District honor.
This season Weinzimer played in a career high all 21 Lynx games. The defender scored three goals, two of which were game winners, including the final one against Maine Maritime Academy to win the NAC Championship on November 8th.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its found in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.