Four Swimmers Named CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year

2016.03.26 NCAA Mens Swimming Championships_Reagan_Alabama Anton McKee

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The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) have named their 2015-2016 Academic All-America At Large teams, and 88 swimmers and divers were honored.

Last month, over 100 swimmers and divers were named to All District Teams. The At Large teams are comprised of these athletes. A swimmer was named the Academic All-American of the Year at each of the four levels.

Division I

Alabama’s Anton McKee was named the Division I Men’s Academic All-American of the year. The junior is a three time All-American and has a 4.0 GPA. Joining him on the men’s Division I first team is his teammate Conor Oslin. Miami Ohio’s Evan Bader, Texas’ Cory Bowersox, Gardner-Webb’s Nathan Lile, Cal’s Ryan Murphy, and Georgia’s Ty Stewart are also first team honorees.

Eric Ebert of Niagra is on the second team alongside Alabama’s Pavel Romanov and Michigan’s PJ Ransford. Third team honorees include Ryan Bailey of the U.S. Naval Academy and South Dakota State’s Weston Christensen.

Nine Division I women were honored. Louisville’s multiple time NCAA champion Kelsi Worrell earned her place on the first team, in addition to Cal’s Rachael Acker and Tennessee’s Faith Johnson. The other three first team honorees are the U.S. Naval Academy’s Ellen Bradford, Kentucky’s Danielle Galyer, and Texas A&M’s Sarah Gibson,

Rachel Bootsma of Cal and Natalie Beale of Liberty were awarded second team honors and Boise State’s Samantha Wicks is on this year’s third team.

Division II

Missouri University of Science and Technology’s senior Keith Sponsler is the 2015-2016 NCAA Division II Men’s Academic-All American of the Year. He is a 17 time All-American and graduated this spring with a 3.92 GPA in nuclear engineering.

Six other swimmers join him on the first team, including Saint Leo teammates Matheus Assis and Evan Jacob. Edinboro’s Micah Cattell, UC San Diego’s Michael Cohn, Grand Valley State’s Gianna Ferrero, and Florida Southern’s Diego Gimenez round out the first team.

Recipients of this year’s second team honors for the men are Malone’s Chris Eckard, Colorado School of Mines’ Brennan Mays, and Gannon’s Drew Wolter.

There were five third team honorees for the Division II men: Timothy Buff of Le Moyne, Miguel Chavez of Missouri Science and Tech, Tim Collet of Malone, Lucas Cuadros of Wingate, and Shippensburg’s Stefan Szilagyi.

For the Division II women, Lynn teammates Thalie Carmigianai and Rebecca Matthews were named to the first team, along with West Floria’s Monica Amaral, Wingate’s Vika Arkhipova, Florida Southern’s Kelsey Gouge, Wayne State’s Hannah Loesch, and Ashland’s Hannah Mattar.

Elly Maleski of Wayne State took home second team honors as did Clarion’s Lauren Slayton and Sarah Zerfoss and Carson-Newman’s Nancy Claire Smith.

On the third team are UC San Diego’s Jaimie Bryan and Dari Watkins, and Shippensburg’s Rikki Sargent.

Division III

MIT’s Margaret Guo was named the Division III women’s Academic All-American of the year after her four All American honors this year and her 4.0 GPA in electrical engineering and computer science. She was joined on the first team by Emory’s Elizabeth Aronoff, Denison’s Campbell Costley, Wheaton (Ill)’s Kirsten Nitz, St. Thomas’ Emma Paulson, Mount Holyoke’s Cathleen Pruden, Luther’s Clare Slagel and Kenyon’s Haley Townsend

Second team DIII swimmers include Denison’s Carolyn Kane, Emory’s Marcela Sanchez-Aizcorbe, Messiah’s Emily Reale and Kristalyn McAfee of WashU. This year’s third team swimmers are Grove City’s Abby Jank, RPI’s Shanny Lin, RIT’s Natalie Snyder, Olivet’s Leah Lupu, and St. Mary’s (MD) Cara Machlin.

Representing the Division III men on the first team are Brad Brooks of McDaniel and WashU’s Reed Dalton. Those two are joined by Johns Hopkins’ Andrew Greenhalgh, Denison’s Jack Lindell, Kenyon’s Trevor Manz, Washington and Jefferson’s Nicholas Willison, and Rose-Hulman’s Orion Martin.

WPI’s Nathan Hughes was named to the second team as was MIT’s Daryl Neubieser, Denison’s Andrew Rich and Jason Wesseling, Calvin’s Brett Stoughton, and Williams’ Jake Tamposi.

Hayes Burdette-Sapp of Emory, Daniel Goldstein of Grinnell, and Tommy Thetford of Washington and Lee garnered third team selections.

College Division (NAIA, Canadian, and two-year institutions)

Olivet Nazarene’s Jacob Anderson took home men’s Academic All-American of the year recognition. The senior is a six time national champion with a 3.73 GPA. British Columbia’s Colin Eriks was also named to the first team. Anderson’s teammate Calvin Price and St. Gregory’s Jason Schroeder were second team selections.

For the women Mckayla Stevens of the College of Idaho was named to the first team and Olivet Nazarene’s Tiffany Ray garnered second team recognitions.

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