Blue Swimming & Diving One of 658 CSCAA Spring Scholar All-America Teams

WELLESLEY, Mass. – Wellesley College swimming & diving has been named a College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America for the 2016 spring semester. The Blue also earned the distinction following the 2015 fall semester.

With spring graduations having passed, the CSCAA has designated 658 swimming and diving teams, representing 388 colleges and universities as Scholar All-America teams.  The recognition comes as a result of each team's classroom performance in the past semester.  It is only the second time in the program's 30+ year that more than 600 teams have been honored.

To be selected as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team, programs must have achieved a grade point average of 3.00 or higher over the spring semester. Head Coach Bonnie Dix's squad compiled a GPA of 3.32 for the spring semester. In addition, seniors Ieva Galinyte (Irvine, Calif.) and Erin Yang (Southborough, Mass.), junior Maddie Stern (Phoenix, Ariz.) and sophomores Sophia Dillon-Davidson (Amherst, Mass.), Rebecca Jennings (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Lindsey Wu (Livingston, N.J.) all earned New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Academic All-Conference honors. 

Founded in 1922, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) – the oldest organization of college coaches in America -is a professional organization of college swimming and diving coaches dedicated to serving and providing leadership for the advancement of the sport of swimming & diving at the collegiate level.