INDIANAPOLIS -- Green Bay women’s basketball standout Julia Wojta (Francis Creek, Wis./Mishicot) and Wright State track and field star Cassandra Lloyd (Springfield, Ohio/South) have been named the Horizon League nominees for the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

The Horizon League had three of its players – Wright State’s Jake Hibberd, Youngstown State’s Drew Dosch and Butler’s Chase Byerly – earn recognition as members of the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America Division I Baseball Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

INDIANAPOLIS -- Capturing seven Horizon League postseason championships, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has won the James J. McCafferty Trophy as the Horizon League’s all-sports champion for the first time since 2008-09 and the sixth time overall.

TOWSON, Md. – Youngstown State’s Vicky Rumph, Colleen Schneider of Wright State and UIC’s Coryn Schmit were honored as Capital One Academic All-America Third Team selections on Thursday. Voting was conducted of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

INDIANAPOLIS – Wright State senior outfielder Tristan Moore was named the 2012 Horizon League Baseball Player of the Year in voting of the league’s head coaches. Moore was one of six specialty award winners, also receiving recognition was Valparaiso’s Kevin Wild (Pitcher of the Year), Moore’s teammate Michael Schum (Relief Pitcher of the Year), Butler’s Jimmy Risi and Valparaiso’s Kyle Wormington (Co-Newcomers of the Year) and Crusader Head Coach Tracy Woodson (Coach of the Year).

INDIANAPOLIS ---Twenty-one student-athletes from the Horizon League have punched their ticket to the NCAA East and West Preliminaries, according to the declaration lists released by the NCAA on Thursday.

DAYTON, Ohio -- Wright State University Deputy Director of Athletics Roderick Perry has been appointed to the prestigious NCAA Legislative Council, the NCAA announced Thursday.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Youngstown State senior outfielder Haley Thomas was named the Horizon League Softball Player of the Year, becoming the first Penguin to collect the honor since 2003. League champion Valparaiso placed four players on the All-League First Team, in voting of the League’s coaches.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Wright State junior Garrett Gray and Valparaiso junior Kyle Wormington have been named Horizon League Baseball Players of the Week for the period of April 30-May 6.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Milwaukee seeks its ninth straight men’s outdoor track and field team title this weekend and the women’s team will be competing for its third in a row at the Horizon League Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend in Milwaukee, Wis. The championship will be held at Wisconsin Lutheran College at the Krauss-Miller-Lutz Outdoor Athletics Complex Friday-Sunday (May 4-6).