SIOUX FALLS -- Seniors Kaely Hummel and Jacey Huinker of the No. 16 University of Sioux Falls Women's Basketball Team have been named to the 2019-20 Academic All District Women's Basketball Team, selected by CoSIDA, according to an announcement today.
 
USF had two of the six first-team honorees from District 7, which is a first in program history. This honor recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The CoSIDA Academic All-All-America® program separately recognizes basketball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
 
First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team (if applicable) Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-March. Therefore, Hummel and Huinker will be considered for Academic All-American. Hummel and Huinker, who recently helped USF win its first-ever NSIC South Division title, become the second and third players at USF to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors. Sam Knecht was named Academic All-District three years ago and became USF's first CoSIDA Academic All-American in women's basketball in the program's NCAA DII era on March 1, 2017.  
 

Hummel, a 5-8 shooting guard, is a two-time Academic All-NSIC honoree, who was named a Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award recipient. Hummel, who was named the NSIC Preseason South Division Player of the Year this season, has been named twice to the All-NSIC squad. A business administration major with a 3.76 GPA, she is the daughter of Julie and Troy Hummel.

Hummel, who is averaging 17.2 ppg (fourth NSIC) ranks fourth in career points all-time at USF with 1,652 points. She is USF's all-time leader in three-pointers with 263. In 117 career games (tied for first all-time in DII era), she has made 116 starts with 89 double-digit scoring games including 25 of 20 points or more.

She is the first player in school history to have 67 or more three-point field goals in the same season three times and one of two players with 462 points or more in the season three times. In her record-setting career, the Cherokee, Iowa, native also has 268 rebounds, 214 assists and 104 steals with 566 made baskets, which ranks first at USF in the DII era.
 
Huinker, a 5-9 forward from Altoona, Iowa, was named recipient of the Elite 18 Award by the NSIC in women's basketball in 2017-18.

Selected among 32 recipients league-wide of the NSIC's Butch Raymond Scholarship, she has been named Academic All-NSIC twice and to the All-NSIC Defensive Team.

Averaging 5.0 ppg and 8.2 rebounds (3^rd NSIC), Huinker is on the verge of setting the season mark for offensive rebounds (has 75, needs 3 for record) and ranks eighth in school history and second in DII era with 743 rebounds with 17 games of 12 or more rebounds. Huinker, who has 11 double-digit scoring games and six double-doubles, has her nursing degree and is in the USF Master of Business Administration program with a 4.0 GPA in both disciplines.

The daughter of Darren and Janel Huinker, she is the only remaining player from the 2015-16 team that won the NSIC Tourney title and became the program's first-ever squad to earn an NCAA DII Tournament bid. She has accumulated 219 assists, 97 steals, 461 points and 18 blocks in 106 games with 85 starts in her outstanding career.