Arizona’s Justine Schluntz, Wisconsin La Crosse’s Chelsea Hoff Top ESPN The Magazine’s Academic All America Teams

TOWSON, Maryland, June 10. SIX-time NCAA champion Justine Schluntz of the University of Arizona and All-American Chelsea Hoff of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse lead the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Schluntz and Hoff, who are both swimmers, were named as the Academic All-America® of the Year Award winners in the University and College Divisions, respectively.
The Women's At-Large program for Academic All-America® includes the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, tennis and water polo.

A Rhodes Scholar who has earned 16 All-American honors in her career for the Wildcats, Schluntz is a graduate student who has a 4.00 G.P.A. while studying Fluid Dynamics. Last year, she graduated from Arizona with her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a perfect 4.00 G.P.A. A summa cum laude graduate, she was honored as the Pacific-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's swimming. A native of Albuquerque, N.M., Schluntz is a finalist for the Walter Byers Scholarship.

A member of the Wildcats' record-setting 200-free and 400-medley relay teams, she is part of two relay teams that own NCAA and American records. The Wildcats set the 200-free relay record in 2009 with a time of 1:26.20 while the 400-medley relay team owns the record with a time of 3:28.31.

Schluntz has helped Arizona win national titles in the 200-free relay and 400-medley relay the last two seasons. As a sophomore, she was a member of the Wildcats' first-ever NCAA championship team. She contributed to the Wildcats' title by swimming on the 800-free relay team which finished first. She also helped the Wildcats win the Pac-10 title in 2008.

In 2010, Schluntz helped Arizona finish fourth at the NCAA Championship Meet. A three-time Pac-10 All-Academic team member, she will study fluid dynamics next year at Oxford.

Honored as a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division first team for the second straight year, Hoff earned six NCAA Division III All-American honors as a senior. An ESS-Fitness and Pre-Physical Therapy major with a 4.00 G.P.A., she finished her career with 18 Division III All-America honors, including seven individual awards.

Named as the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Meet for three consecutive years, she won three individual titles and was part of three WIAC-winning relay teams at the 2010 WIAC Championship Meet. A native of Middletown, Wis., she won nine individual WIAC titles and was part of 11 championship relay teams in her career. The NCAA Division III runner-up in the 100-backstroke as a senior, she also finished fifth in the 50-free and the 100-free.

The owner of eight school records, she holds three individual WIAC records and swam on four WIAC record-setting relay teams. Named as WIAC Swimmer of the Week five times in her career, she led the Eagles to three conference titles. She was named as the WIAC Scholar-Athlete Award winner as a senior.

Schluntz is one of three members of Arizona's nationally-recognized swimming program who was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team. She was joined on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team by two of her teammates, seniors Ana Agy and Annie Chandler.

Arizona led all schools with three first team selections. Georgia and Stanford each placed two scholar-athletes on the first team.

Senior swimmer Lisa Caprioglio and senior gymnast Grace Taylor represented Georgia on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team. Stanford placed two swimmers, seniors Elaine Breeden and Julia Smit, on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team.

Senior gymnast Kassi Price of Alabama joins Caprioglio and Breeden as the only repeat selections on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team.

Taylor is one of four scholar-athletes who earned second team honors last year and moved up to the first team this year. Senior Kelsey Cutchins, a field hockey standout at James Madison, senior swimmer Ella Doerge of Texas A&M and senior Christina Dove of Syracuse's nationally-ranked lacrosse team were also named to the first team for the first time.

Vicki Bendus, an ice hockey standout from Mercyhurst, is the lone junior on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team.

Senior gymnast Daria Bijak of Utah, senior skier Antje Maempel of Denver and senior Caitlyn McFadden of the national champion Maryland lacrosse team complete the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team.

A Business and Economics major with a 3.79 G.P.A., Agy is also a veteran of Arizona's 2008 national championship team. A 15-time All-American in her career, she has been a member of four NCAA champion relay teams for the Wildcats. The owner of school records in the 100-backstroke and the 200-backstroke, she is part of Arizona's 400-medley relay team which broke the American and NCAA records. A native of Park City, Utah, Agy is a three-time member of the Pac-10's All-Academic team.

The 2010 NCAA champion in the 100-breaststroke, Chandler broke the NCAA record with a time of 58.06 seconds. A Journalism major with a 3.50 G.P.A., she is an 18-time All-American who has been part of six national champion relay teams at Arizona. A two-time member of the United States National Team, the San Antonio, Tex. native is part of the 200-medley and 400-medley relay teams that own the American and NCAA records. The winner of the Ruby Award as Arizona's top female senior athlete, she was a member of Arizona's national championship team in 2008.

An International Business and Marketing major with a 4.00 G.P.A., Caprioglio was a top swimmer in the butterfly for Georgia during her college career. As a senior, she placed third in the 100- and 200-butterfly at the Southeastern Conference meet, helping the Bulldogs win the SEC title. A native of Highlands Ranch, Col., she contributed to Georgia's fifth place finish at the NCAA Championship Meet with an eighth place showing in the 100-fly. A two-time winner of the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, she also won Georgia's Joel Eaves and Marilyn Vincent awards as the senior with the top G.P.A.

A seven-time All-American gymnast at Georgia, Taylor competed for three national championship teams at Georgia as the Bulldogs won titles in 2007, 2008 and 2009. A Health Promotion major with a 3.97 G.P.A., she was the NCAA champion on the balance beam as a sophomore. The Southeastern Conference champion on the bars and the beam in 2008, she was named as the SEC Scholar-Athlete for gymnastics in 2009. A native of Aiken, S.C., Taylor was the winner of the Ramsey Scholarship at Georgia.

A Classics major with a 3.66 G.P.A., Breeden won two individual national championships for Stanford as a senior. A 24-time All-American swimmer, she won her third straight NCAA title in the 200-butterfly and her first championship in the 100-butterfly in 2010. The school record holder in the 100- and 200-butterfly, she owns the American record and the NCAA record in the 200-fly. A five-time Pacific-10 Conference champion, she helped Stanford finish as NCAA runner-up in 2010. A finalist for the Honda Award, the Lexington, Ky. native competed in the 2008 Olympics and was a member of the 400-medley relay team which earned a silver medal.

Named as the Swimmer of the Meet at the 2010 NCAA Championship, Smit was a 26-time All-American at Stanford who set five school records. The first woman to break the four-minute barrier in the 400-I.M., she owns the NCAA and American records in both the 200-I.M. and the 400-I.M. An Anthropology major with a 3.51 G.P.A., she won six Pac-10 titles in her career. Named as the Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year, she was also honored as the Swimmer of the Meet at the 2010 Pac-10 Meet as she led Stanford to the Pac-10 title. A native of Mt. Sinai, N.Y., she helped Stanford finish as national runner-up in 2010. At the 2008 Olympics, she earned a silver medal in the 400-free relay and a bronze medal in the 800-free relay.

A three-time All-American gymnast at Alabama, Price has a double major of Marketing and Advertising and a perfect 4.00 G.P.A. The NCAA regional champion on uneven bars, she won 35 individual event titles during her career. The winner of NCAA and Southeastern Conference postgraduate scholarships, she helped the Crimson Tide win a regional championship and finish third in the nation as a senior. A key member of Alabama's 2009 SEC championship team, she was the winner of the 2010 Bryant Award, presented to the top student-athlete at Alabama. A native of Plantation, Fla., she was also won the Austin Cup, awarded to the top senior in UA's Culverhouse School of Commerce and Business Administration.

A three-time All-Colonial Athletic Association goalkeeper for the field hockey team at James Madison, Cutchins is a Psychology major with a minor in Geography and a 3.93 G.P.A. Named as the CAA Scholar-Athlete for field hockey three times, she was also named to the CAA Silver Anniversary field hockey team. A second team pick on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division team as a junior, she was a third team selection as a sophomore. A two-time selection as the CAA Player of the Year, the Suffolk, Va. native was named All-Region three times. She finished her career with a 1.10 career Goals Against Average, a school record. She was also named as the CAA's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2009.

An NCAA qualifier in the 100-free and the 100-butterfly, Doerge is one of the top swimmers in the history of Texas A&M swimming. A Genetics major with a perfect 4.00 G.P.A., she ranks among the school's top five performers in five events. A 2009 Rhodes Scholarship finalist, she was named to the Academic All-Big 12 Conference team three times. Last year, the Clive, Iowa native earned the Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Junior award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

An Accounting and Finance major with a 3.82 G.P.A., Dove led the Syracuse lacrosse team to a 15-7 record and a berth in the NCAA semi-finals as a senior. A three-time IWLCA All-American selection who earned first team honors as a senior, she scored 67 goals with 28 assists in 2010. Honored as the BIG EAST Conference Midfielder of the Year twice, she was named first team All-BIG EAST three times. A native of Bel Air, Md., she finished her career with 250 goals, setting a school record. She is tied for ninth place on the NCAA Division I all-time goals scoring list.

Named as the College Hockey America Player of the Year in 2010, Bendus led Mercyhurst to a 30-3-3 record and a berth in the NCAA Division I Frozen Four. A Biology and Pre-Med major with a 3.93 G.P.A., Bendus was the second-leading scorer in the nation with 28 goals and 37 assists. Honored as a 2010 AHCA/RBK first team All-American, she was also named first team All-CHA. A native of Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada, she led the nation in short-handed goals scored.

A first team All-American gymnast on bars and all-around, Bijak led Utah to a sixth place finish at the NCAA Division I championship meet. A Film Studies major with a 3.85 G.P.A., she won the NCAA regional bars title. An eight-time All-American in her career, she led the Utes to national runner-up finishes twice in her career. As a senior, she won 14 events and finished her career with 24 victories. A native of Cologne, Germany, she was the German all-around champion twice and competed in the 2008 Olympics. Bijak won the Bud Jack Academic Award as Utah's top senior female athlete.

A Finance major with a 3.74 G.P.A., Maempel is a four-time NCAA individual national champion skier. A three-time All-American selection, she led Denver to its third consecutive national championship. A native of Stützerbach, Germany, she won nine of 12 races as a senior and finished second in the other three. A three-time RMISA first team honoree three times, she was named as the RMISA's Women's Nordic Most Valuable Skier for the second year in a row.

Named as the Most Outstanding Player at the NCAA Division I Lacrosse Championship, McFadden led Maryland to a 22-1 record and its tenth national championship in 2010. A first team All-American selection, she started every game of her college career and scored 149 goals with 110 assists for 259 points. The sixth-leading scorer in school history, she was named first team All-Atlantic Coast Conference three times and was the ACC Player of the Year twice. A Kinesiology major with a 3.72 G.P.A., she scored two goals with an assist in the Terrapins' 13-11 win over five-time champion Northwestern in the national championship game last week. A two-year captain, the Phoenix, Md. native scored 50 goals with 35 assists as a senior while leading the Terrapins to their first national title since 2001.

McFadden was honored as the winner of the Tewaaraton Award as the top women's player in college lacrosse. In addition, she was named as the Honda Award winner.
The 15 members of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large University Division first team have an average 3.83 G.P.A. while four of the honorees have perfect 4.00 G.P.A.'s. There are seven swimmers, three gymnasts and two lacrosse players on the first team.

Senior swimmer Kate Aherne of Truman State joins Hoff as the only repeat selections on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division first team.

Junior gymnast Melissa Baudhuin of Winona State, senior gymnast Sarah Darst of Southern Connecticut and senior field hockey standout Kelly Johnson of Worcester Polytechnic Institute were named to the first team after earning second team notice last year.
A pair of swimmers from Emory University who were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division third team last season, seniors Lillian Ciardelli and Ruth Westby, graduated to the first team this year. In addition, senior Jessica Barby, a member of the water polo team at Washington & Jefferson, was named to the first team after earning third team notice in 2009.
California Lutheran also had two scholar-athletes named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division first team as seniors Meredith Butte and Bobby Sanders of the Regals' National Collegiate III Women's Water Polo Championship team were honored.

Graduate student Jackie Bogensberger, a lacrosse standout at Adelphi, joins senior ice hockey player Kirsten Dier of Amherst, junior golfer Marianne Andersson of Florida Southern, junior swimmer Kristen Montello of West Chester, junior swimmer Nicole Moody of Wingate and junior tennis player Melissa Oosterhouse of Calvin to complete the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division first team.

On the 16-person first team, there are six swimmers and three water polo players.

The 2010 NCAA Division II champion in the 200-I.M., Aherne is a Business Administration major with a 3.88 G.P.A. A 27-time All-American, she won four national titles in her career, including three in the 200-I.M. As a senior, she broke her own NCAA record in the 200-I.M. with a time of 2:00.56. The recipient of an NCAA post-graduate scholarship, she led the Bulldogs to their sixth straight New South Intercollegiate Swimming Conference championship in 2010. The native of Cary, Ill. was the co-winner of Truman State's Student-Athlete of the Year award. She led the Bulldogs to fifth place at the Division II championship meet.

A Chemistry major with a perfect 4.00 G.P.A., Baudhuin was one of the top vaulters for the Warriors this season. A native of Oshkosh, Wis., she helped Winona State finish sixth at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association championship meet. As a sophomore, she earned first team All-NCGA honors on balance beam while picking up second team notice on vault and floor exercise.

Honored as the ECAC Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year three times, Darst has a double major of Exercise Science and Human Performance with a 3.95 G.P.A. A standout on the uneven bars for the Owls, she was the ECAC champion as a sophomore and finished as runner-up twice. As a senior, the Tampa, Fla. native led Southern Connecticut to a second place finish in the ECAC. Named as SCSU's Senior Female Scholar-Athlete Award winner, she was also recognized by the State of Connecticut Department of Higher Education for her community outreach efforts.

Named as a first team All-New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference defender, Johnson led the Worcester Polytechnic Institute field hockey team to a 12-7 record as a senior. A Mechanical Engineering major with a 4.00 G.P.A., she topped the Engineers in scoring with 11 goals and one assist. A team captain in 2009, the Buxton, Maine native led the NEWMAC with ten defensive saves. A member of Alpha Phi Omega sorority, she is a two-sport standout who was named to the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Softball College Division second team last month.
Ciardelli and Westby guided Emory to the NCAA Division III swimming and diving national championship in 2010.

A Psychology major with a 3.81 G.P.A., Ciardelli was the Eagles' top swimmer in the butterfly. The school record holder in the 100-fly, she finished fifth in the 100-fly at the NCAA Championship Meet. A 15-time All-American in her career, she was a key member of Emory's national champion 200-free relay team and its 400-free relay team. In 2010, she helped Emory set an NCAA record in the 200-free relay. A 12-time University Athletic Association champion, she led Emory to four straight UAA titles. A four-time pick as UAA Swimmer of the Week, the Hanover, N.H. native earned an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship.

An Environmental Science and Political Science major with a 3.78 G.P.A., Westby was named as the University Athletic Association Swimmer of the Meet twice in her career.

A five-time national champion, she earned a school record 27 All-America certificates in her career. The school record holder in the 50-free, the 100-free and the 200-free, she earned All-American honors in all three events four years in a row. A member of the NCAA record-setting 200-free relay, she is also a part of four record-setting relay teams at Emory. A native of Dunwoody, Ga., she led the Eagles to the UAA championship by winning three individual UAA championships and four relay titles at the 2010 UAA Championship Meet. Like Ciardelli, she also earned an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship.

A record-setting performer for the water polo team at Washington & Jefferson, Barby earned first team All-Collegiate Water Polo Association honors as a senior. A Child Development Education major with a 3.95 G.P.A., she led the Presidents in scoring with 69 goals and 21 assists as a senior as she set a school record for scoring. Barby, who scored 144 goals with 87 assists in her career, helped W&J reach the national championship tournament twice in her career. A native of Sinking Spring, Pa., she was named as the CWPA Player of the Week in mid-April.

Butte and Sanders combined to lead California Lutheran to the Collegiate Water Polo Association Division III championship with a win over Occidental in the finals.

A Biology major with a 3.80 G.P.A., Butte was named as the Most Valuable Player at the CWPA Championship Tournament. Honored as a first team All-American twice, she led the Regals in scoring with 80 goals and 47 assists as she broke her own school record.

Despite playing only three seasons for the Regals, she finished her career as their second-leading career scorer with 213 goals and 109 assists. A native of Santa Monica, Cal., she was named first team All-Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) three years in a row.

Named as a first team All-American as a junior, Sanders has a double major of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine Psychology and a 4.00 G.P.A. Honored as a first team All-American by the Collegiate Water Polo Association as a junior, she set a school record with 93 steals last year. A defensive standout who helped the Regals win the CWPA Division III title as a senior, she earned a spot on the all-tournament team at the championship tournament. A native of Anchorage, Alaska, she was one of the Regals' top scorers as a senior with 32 goals and 24 assists.

A defensive standout for the Adelphi lacrosse team which won its second consecutive NCAA Division II championship, Bogensberger is a graduate student working on a Master's degree in Mathematics with a 4.00 G.P.A. A starter in 12 of 20 games, she earned second team all-conference honors twice in her career. Leading a stingy Panthers' defense which allowed only 7.01 goals per game, she ranked among the team leaders with 39 ground balls and 28 caused turnovers. In 2009, the Valley Stream, N.Y. native was named to the all-tournament team at the NCAA Division II championship tournament.

A Neuroscience major with a 3.90 G.P.A., Dier was the top defenseman for Amherst and led the Lord Jeffs to NCAA Division III championships in 2009 and 2010. As a senior, she scored seven goals with 15 assists as number one-ranked Amherst posted a 23-2-4 record while winning the national title. For the second year in a row, the Appleton, Wis. Native was named to the all-tournament team at the NCAA Championship. A three-time All-New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) selection, she scored 20 goals in her career with 53 assists. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, the two-year co-captain helped the Lord Jeffs compile an 87-18-11 record in her career.

Named first team All-Sunshine State Conference, Andersson had the lowest seasonal average (76.31) for Florida Southern's golf team this season. A Finance major with a 4.00 G.P.A., she led the Mocs to a third place finish at the NCAA Division II Championship. Named second team All-American by the NGCA, she took third place at the NCAA Regional Championship and placed ninth at the Sunshine State Tournament.

A native of Bjuv, Sweden, she recorded seven top-ten finishes for the Mocs in 2010.

A six-time All-American swimmer for West Chester, Montello is a Communicative Disorders major with a 4.00 G.P.A. She led the Golden Rams to their fourth straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship by winning the 500-free and the 1000-free titles. A native of Chambersburg, Pa., she was also part of three PSAC champion relay teams. A nine-time PSAC champion in her career, she helped West Chester to a fourth place finish at the NCAA Division II Championship Meet.

The school record holder in the 50-free, Moody is a Psychology major with a 4.00 G.P.A. In 2008, she was a member of Wingate's Blue Grass Mountain Conference champion 200-free and 400-medley relay teams. In 2010, she earned honorable mention All-American honors in the 50-free. The Grovetown, Ga. native was named All-BGMC in five events this season, helping the Bulldogs to a third place finish. She is a member of three national honor societies, Phi Eta Sigma, Alpha Kappa Delta and Phi Chi.

A junior Biology major with a 3.92 G.P.A. who has minors in Chemistry and Spanish, Oosterhouse has been the number one singles player for the Calvin College tennis team for the last three years. In 2010, she led the Knights to a 19-4 record and the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championship. A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., she is a three-time All-MIAA first team selection who was the MIAA's Most Valuable Player in 2010. While leading Calvin to its first-ever NCAA Division III Tournament berth, she posted a 25-2 record at number one singles. In her career, she has a 59-22 record at number one singles.

The 16 members of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's At-Large College Division first team have a very impressive average G.P.A. of 3.94. Eight of the first team selections have 4.00 G.P.A.'s.

To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.

Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

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