Three Wayne State University spring sports student-athletes were voted to receive a GLIAC Commissioner's Award. Only six male and six female conference student-athletes from spring sports were selected.  WSU's honorees were Alison Allen, Andrew Ciennik and Thomas Ducret.

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Senior softball player Alison Allen (Redford, Mich. /Farmington Hills Mercy) earned a GLIAC Commissioner's Award for the second straight year. A three-time All-GLIAC performer (1st team in both 2010 and 2011, 2nd team in 2012), Allen was a CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American in 2012 after earning both NFCA and Daktronics All-America recognition in both 2010 and 2011. The 2010 GLIAC “Player of the Year,” she finished her career ranked first in doubles, runs scored, home runs, slugging percentage, RBI, total bases, at bats, and intentional walks; tied-for-first in games played; second in both hits and walks; third in batting average and fourth in on-base percentage.   In 2012, Allen started all 56 games helping WSU to a third-place regular-season finish, along with the first GLIAC Tournament title since 1995.  She led the GLIAC with 46 RBI in league play.

Senior baseball student-athlete Andrew Ciennik (Waterford, Mich./Mott), one of two Warriors to start all 55 games last season, was voted to the All-GLIAC Second Team after batting a career-best .350 (14th in the GLIAC) with 62 hits, 32 runs scored and 26 RBI.  He ranked eighth in the conference with a .446 on-base percentage, and tied the WSU single-season record with 146 fielding assists at second base and shortstop.  Ciennik hit a team-best .406 with seven runs scored during the postseason, including a .478 clip in the GLIAC Tournament. Ciennik was named to the CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America Division II First Team, becoming the first WSU baseball student-athlete to receive Academic All-America accolades since 1995.  Ciennik was a four-year starter for Wayne State and helped the Warriors reach the NCAA Midwest Regional each of the last three seasons.  Ciennik also ranks second in career games played (204) and sixth in hits (199). Ciennik is a biological sciences major with a 3.75 GPA.

Junior men's tennis player Thomas Ducret (Paris, France) was a First Team All-GLIAC selection for the second straight season and an all-league performer for the third time after earning Second Team All-conference accolades as a freshman.  He won all four of his matches (three doubles and one singles) at the 2012 GLIAC tournament and tied for the team lead with 16 singles victories. He a compiled a 16-12 singles record including a 10-8 mark at No. 1 singles and had a 17-10 doubles record primarily at third doubles (13-6).  As member of the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence, Ducret helped the Warriors to a third-place GLIAC finish with a 7-2 conference record and he was rated as the 10th best singles player in the region by the ITA.