2025-26 CSC At-Large Academic All-America Team
A trio of Centennial Conference student-athletes have been named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators At-Large Academic All-America Team. A pair of Johns Hopkins field hockey players -
Megan Chang and
Jenna Halpin - and Ursinus women's lacrosse player
Sophia Curtis, were honored. Chang and Halpin were both first team selections while Curtis earned third team accolades.
The Blue Jay field hockey team has now produced 10 CSC Academic All-Americans and this is the fourth time in the last five years that it has had two. Halpin is just the second JHU field hockey to earn CSC Academic All-America honors twice.
A senior neuroscience major, Chang was also an NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete winner and NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team selection in 2025. Chang was also named second team All-Centennial and second team NFHCA All-Region in 2025. She led the team in goals (10) and points (28) and ranked second in assists (8). In the career rankings, Chang rank in the top 25 in JHU history in career points (55), goals (21) and assists (13). Off the field, she worked as a Pediatric Oncology Education Intern at St. Jude's and Undergraduate Research Assistant in Michael Caterina Lab.
A graduate student in civil engineering, Halpin is a two-time CSC Academic All-American, a two-time NFHCA All-American and was the 2025 NFHCA Region V Player of the Year and Centennial Conference Defensive Player of the Year. Halpin also received the Pallas Athene Award from Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association and served as the Second Lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. She led Hopkins in assists (13) and totaled 23 points in 2025 and finished her career with 11 goals, 24 assists and 46 points.
Curtis, a recent Ursinus graduate, becomes the 24th Bear all-time to earn Academic All-American honors from coSIDA/CSC and is the first women's lacrosse athlete to be named a CSC Academic All-American since former Ursinus Director of Athletics Erin Stroble earned a spot on the 2002 Women's At-Large team. The Bears have now had at least one student-athlete earn a CSC Academic All-American team for the fourth straight year.
A Health and Exercise Physiology graduate, Curtis recorded a career best 41 caused turnovers that tied for second most all-time in a single season in program history and led the Centennial Conference in the regular season. She posted a Centennial best 2.41 caused turnovers per game and ranked second on the team and is ninth in the Centennial with 40 ground balls. Curtis was named an All-American Honorable Mention pick by USA Lacrosse Magazine while garnering IWLCA All-Metro Region First Team honors and All-Centennial Conference First Team honors for the first time in her career.
Academically, her 4.0 GPA carried her to be named one of the overall Centennial Conference Women's Scholar Athletes of the Year in addition to already earning the conference's Women's Lacrosse Scholar Athlete of the Year nod. Curtis also was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Women's At-Large All-District Team for the first time in her career and the PhillySIDA Women's Lacrosse Academic All-Area Player of the Year.
