Pals, it’s the summer, which means the hockey season is over… and so is the school year for many of hockey’s collegiate players.

With the easing up of the NCAA’s restrictions on who was eligible to play college hockey, there’s been a surge of players from Canadian major junior into the NCAA. Between the academic commitments and the level of competition – and living on your own – college can be pretty tough.

Well, 11 Flames prospects have received some sort of collegiate academic honours for the 2025-26 season.

Here’s a rundown of the young gentlemen who are good at hockey and school, too. (Note: the Academic All Big Ten list comes out in March and you need to have been enrolled for 12 months to be eligible, so Penn State’s Luke Misa wasn’t eligible yet.)

The ECAC Hockey conference’s All-Academic Team is pretty straightforward: you need to be on a hockey team, maintain cumulative 3.00 GPA or have a GPA of 3.00 or more over the last three semesters.

Three Flames prospects made the All-Academic Team: Cornell’s Jonathan Castagna, who was named for the third time in three years in college, along with freshman Aidan Lane (of Harvard) and Ethan Wyttenbach (of Quinnipiac). For what it’s worth, Castagna and Wyttenbach were both named to ECAC’s First All-Star Team, and Wyttenbach was named the national rookie of the year.

Hockey East’s All-Academic Team is very similar to ECAC’s: a player makes the list if they’re on a hockey team and maintain a 3.00 GPA “during the period they were actively competing in Hockey East.”

Maine freshman Jaden Lipinski and Merrimack sophomore Trevor Hoskin made the list, among Flames prospects. Hoskin made Atlantic Hockey America’s All-Academic Team in his freshman year, which he spent at Niagara before transferring.

The National Collegiate Hockey Conference calls their All-Academic Team the NCHC Honor Roll. Name aside, they need to maintain a cumulative 3.00 GPA and have competed at least one full academic year. Anyone with a cumulative 3.50 GPA is also called a Distinguished Scholar-Athlete. They have two announcements per year: one in February for players who had already completed their freshman year, and one in July for freshmen and first-year transfers.

A lot of Flames affiliated players made the NCHC Honor Roll: Arizona State’s Cullen Potter, Denver’s Eric Jamieson, North Dakota’s Cade Littler, Cole Reschny and Abram Wiebe, and St. Cloud State’s Tyson Gross. Potter, Jamieson, Reschny, Wiebe and Gross were all also named Distinguished Scholar-Athletes.

The American Hockey Commissioners Association recognizes players as All-American Scholars if they attained a 3.75 GPA for each semester and appeared in 40% of their team’s games, with exceptions made for injured players and backup goaltenders.

Named as All-American Scholars were Potter, Jamieson and Hoskin.

Yes, Jamieson won an NCAA championship and maintained a 3.75 GPA as a freshman.

Finally, the College Sports Communicators recognize athletes for “their combined performances in competition and in the classroom,” nominating players for the Academic All-District Team. A few of the players named Academic All-District are considered for Academic All-American honours.

Wiebe was named Academic All-District and was nominated for Academic All-American, but wasn’t named to the final list.