The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has unveiled the 2023 Individual Scholar All-America Team. The CSCAA honored a total of 2,290 swimmers and divers, broken down to 1,270 women and 1,020 men.
All of the Scholar All-Americans have achieved a minimum GPA of 3.50 in the spring semester. First-Team Scholar All-Americans are student-athletes who participated in their respective national championships, while Second-Teamers are swimmers or divers who have met the “B” time for the national championship or participated in a diving zone meet. Read more about the selection criteria here.
Nearly half (47%) of the Individual Scholar All-America team is pursuing a degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) related fields. The most popular major among the recipients is Business, followed by Biology, Psychology, Economics, Exercise Science and Mechanical Engineering.
When broken down by division, Division I schools came out with the top number of student-athletes recognized at 1,201. Division II had the next highest number of honorees with 356, while Division III tallied 561, and the NAIA and NJCAA combined for a total 172 honorees.
Virginia, the Division I champions on the women’s side, boasted a total of 18 honorees with 13 of them being recognized as First-Team selections. On the men’s side, Cal came in with ten honorees, 3 of them being honored as First-Teamers.
Overall, the Stanford had the largest number of recipients of all divisions for women with 24 total. Leading the men’s programs was Division III champions Emory, who had 30 student-athletes recognized as 2023 Scholar All-Americans.
You can view the complete list of honorees by school here.
Sincere congratulations to all of these scholar/athletes. The will to succeed is evident in what these young women and men achieve in community, classroom and pool. I am a fan of these amazing swimmers divers.
Scholars in the pool
GPA and excellence
Honored, they thrive
Only 4 syllables in the last line. You’ve gotta work on counting syllables, preferably not in the SwimSwam comments
I forgive you, because I know that most people lose their curiosity some time around age 10, and that’s often first presented in a lack of understanding of the deeper arts.
Have you ever wondered why Haikus, of all the forms of poetry, are the ones taught in American schools? It’s because it works in a lesson on syllable counting. This idea of a strict pattern of 17 syllables is really unique to American elementary schools, and is otherwise nowhere near as rigorous in Japan.
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incredible that some cam balance the rigorous training and maintain above 3.5 and take at least 17-20 credits per semester
There’s not a lot of student athletes taking 17, never heard of someone with 20 as a D1 athlete.
Significant number of D3 athletes at top-tier regularly hitting 17+
Are you sure that’s the correct distinction for first team and second team? There are a lot of people on that list listed as “second team” that I know for a fact competed at their divisions national championship meet.
If you can give us specific examples, we can bring them up with the CSCAA, but yes, that’s the distinction that the CSCAA has declared.
I can give you one: Wheaton (MA) women – all three listed competed at NCAAs (currently listed as 2nd team)
maybe their coach should do a better job? Not hard to type in names..
That’s not how the selection process worked this year. The CSCAA had a pre-prepared list of athletically eligible athletes. This is outside the control of a coach.
The list is littered with mistakes at all levels. The CSCAA has said they are working to correct the issues on their website.
Should make it qualified for their championship vs competed. Don’t penalize a good kid for being sick and not competing or having more than the limit on their team etc.
In the end always good to be recognized for hard work and a job well done.