CSCAA Announces 2023 Individual Scholar All-Americans

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

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Bupwa
1 year ago

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.

Zippo
1 year ago

Scholars in the pool
GPA and excellence
Honored, they thrive

Juan Cena
Reply to  Zippo
1 year ago

Only 4 syllables in the last line. You’ve gotta work on counting syllables, preferably not in the SwimSwam comments

Admin
Reply to  Juan Cena
1 year ago

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.

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Chris
1 year ago

incredible that some cam balance the rigorous training and maintain above 3.5 and take at least 17-20 credits per semester

oxyswim
Reply to  Chris
1 year ago

There’s not a lot of student athletes taking 17, never heard of someone with 20 as a D1 athlete.

D3 CSCAA
Reply to  oxyswim
1 year ago

Significant number of D3 athletes at top-tier regularly hitting 17+

Swimmington City
1 year ago

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.

Admin
Reply to  Swimmington City
1 year ago

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.

Lulu
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

I can give you one: Wheaton (MA) women – all three listed competed at NCAAs (currently listed as 2nd team)

Last edited 1 year ago by Lulu
Bama Slama
Reply to  Lulu
1 year ago

maybe their coach should do a better job? Not hard to type in names..

SheCanCoach
Reply to  Bama Slama
1 year ago

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.

SheCanCoach
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

The list is littered with mistakes at all levels. The CSCAA has said they are working to correct the issues on their website.

Cousin Eddie
Reply to  SheCanCoach
1 year ago

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.