Women’s Soccer Lands Six on CSC Academic All-District Team

OMAHA, Neb. – Creighton Women's Soccer's Olivia Duray, Tori Gillis, Clara Kulick, Ariana Mondiri, Ella Offer and Abigail Santana have been named to the 2025 Academic All-District® Women's Soccer team, selected by the College Sports Communicators.

This marks the third Academic All-District team honor for Santana and the second for Gillis, while Kulick, Mondiri and Offer have landed on the Academic All-District team for a second consecutive year. In addition, this is the first Academic All-District honor for Duray.

The Bluejays' six honorees are the most by the Creighton women's soccer program in a single year, surpassing the previous high of five in 2022.

The 2025-25 Academic All-District teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes women's soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. Academic All-District® honorees were considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. Student-athletes selected as CSC Academic All-America® finalists are denoted with an asterisk and will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced Dec. 16, 2025.

A three-time captain, Santana appeared in 78 matches, logging a combined 6,341 minutes on the pitch. She delivered 14 goals and eight assists on 101 career shots, earning BIG EAST All-Tournament team honors in 2022. Santana completed her undergraduate degree in biology in the spring of 2025 and is in the process of completing a master's degree in organizational leadership with a 4.00 GPA. She was selected as an Academic All-District choice for a third time, earning the honor previously in both 2022 and 2023.

Earning her second consecutive CSC Academic All-District honor, Mondiri owns a 3.69 GPA, majoring in mathematics. The Evry, France native collected All-BIG EAST First Team honor for a second straight season after leading the Bluejays and ranking tied for seventh in the BIG EAST with 19 points on a team-high eight goals and three assists. Mondiri consistently delivered for Creighton, scoring at least one point in 10 of the Jays' 19 matches this season. Overall, Mondiri netted 16 career goals and dished out six career assists, having logged more than 2,700 minutes as a Bluejay.

Gillis joined Creighton in the spring of 2025 and made an immediate impact in her first season with the Bluejays, earning Second Team All-BIG EAST accolades. The Leesburg, Va. native scored two goals and dishing out an assist on a career-high 30 shots in 1,538 minutes of action this season. Over the course of her career, Gillis owned two career goals and two career assists in 3,210 total minutes of action at Creighton and LSU. A Lifestyle Medicine major, Gillis was also an Academic All-District selection in 2023.

In her third season with the Bluejays, Kulick owns a 3.68 cumulative GPA while pursuing a nursing degree. The Aurora, Colo. native is now a two-time CSC Academic All-District nominee and has appeared in 54 matches, earning 36 starts over her first three years as a Bluejay. She has played a combined 2,656 minutes of action, recording one goal and two assists.

An exercise science major, Offer is claiming her second straight Academic All-District award after entered the fall with a perfect 4.00 cumulative GPA. The heart and soul of the Creighton's back line, Offer started all 36 matches of her Bluejay career. She logged 2,925 minutes of action, while dishing out a pair of assists earlier this season.

Duray wrapped up her first season with the Bluejays after transferring into Creighton from Pittsburgh. The Woodridge, Ill. native appeared in all 19 matches this fall, earning the start in the midfield nine times. She netted one goal and ranked tied for third on the team with three total assists, logging more than 875 minutes of action. A Biology major, Duray is earning the first Academic All-District accolade of her career.

Led by Jimmy Walker, Creighton finished its 2025 season in the BIG EAST Tournament with a 7-8-4 overall record.

Academic standing and eligibility:

Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
Student-athletes must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
Student-athletes who have graduated from their own institution during the current academic year and are not competing in athletics at another institution at the time of nomination are eligible.
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.
Transfer student-athletes are immediately eligible. If your transfer student-athletes (undergraduates or graduates) are in their first semester at your institution, you must use their cumulative undergraduate GPA and cumulative graduate GPA (if grad GPA is applicable) from their former institution — which meets the 3.50 cumulative GPA — to be considered for Academic All-District/Academic All-America status.

Athletic Eligibility:

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

Women’s Soccer Lands Six on CSC Academic All-District Team

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