ISAAC FISHER, Special to the Standard-Examiner
Graduating Weber State men’s basketball player Blaise Threatt has added a big off-the-court notch to his belt full of on-the-court accomplishments.
Threatt has been named an Academic All-American by College Sports Communicators, one of just 15 players in Division I men’s basketball to receive the honor. He’s the first WSU men’s basketball player in 40 years to be named an Academic All-American and seventh in the program’s history.
He’s also the first Weber athlete of any sport since 2014 to be named to a CSC Academic All-America team.
Threatt has a 4.0 GPA in two years at Weber State and will graduate with a degree in professional sales this month.
The point guard scored 20 points per game in the 2024-25 season, one of 20 in DI to average 20 or more points. At 20.0 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.9 steals per game, he was the only DI player in the country to average 20-5-4. He’s also the second player in program history to lead WSU in points, rebounds, assists and steals in one season.
Threatt leaves Weber State ranking fourth all-time in career field goal percentage and 10th in steals-per-game average. He was 20th nationally among active players with 2,181 career points across five seasons between Colorado Mesa and Weber State.
Three Weber State track and field athletes were named to Big Sky Conference athlete of the week honors for April 7-13, including Roy High alum and freshman Ethan Ecker.
Ecker won the javelin event at the Utah Spring Classic invitational by throwing 207 feet, the fourth-best mark in the Big Sky this season and ninth all-time at WSU.
Peter Visser won the mile run at WSU’s leg of the Spring Classic two days later, finishing at 4:01.08. That converts to 3:38.6 in the 1500 meters, the usual event run in NCAA outdoor track, which makes Visser second in the West region in the event.
Sweden native Saga Hagelin won the mile run on the women’s side at 4:52.48.
The event includes several athletes from around the mountain region, including Weber State, Utah State, Utah, BYU, Utah Valley, Southern Utah, Idaho State, College of Southern Idaho, and some unattached competitors.
A former Weber State women’s basketball player will move across state lines to continue her coaching career.
Caela Walker (née Mohre) has been named girls basketball head coach at Angola High School in northeast Indiana. She previously coached at her alma mater, Edon High, in northwest Ohio.
Walker played four seasons at Weber State (2008-12), appearing in 91 games. As a starter her senior year, she averaged 8.0 points, 2.9 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game, scoring a career-high 21 points in a game at Oregon.
She married former Weber State football receiver LJ Walker.
One future Weber State softball player is shining as a senior.
Kendall Freidinger, a pitcher at Empire High just outside Tucson, Arizona, is 14-0 with a 0.83 ERA this season and headlined All Sports Tucson’s pitching leaders update this week. The site reports that Freidinger holds career marks of 59-3 and a 1.17 ERA in four high school seasons, striking out 754 batters to just 61 walks in 359 2/3 innings.
According to MaxPreps, it appears Freidinger leads the entire state of Arizona in strikeouts per inning, waving 181 batters in 76 innings this season (2.38 Ks per inning). She’s seventh in Arizona in total strikeouts (the leader has 210 Ks in 119.1 innings).
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