Wittenberg Swimming And Diving Individuals Earn Academic Awards
Springfield, Ohio — Wittenberg University's swimming and diving teams not only made waves in the pool during the 2009-10 school year, the Tigers recently earned accolades from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for outstanding individual and team academic performances.
Neil Anderson
Springfield, Ohio— Wittenberg University's swimming and diving teams not only made waves in the pool during the 2009-10 school year, the Tigers recently earned accolades from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) for outstanding individual and team academic performances.
The Tiger women posted a 3.19 team grade point average (GPA) to earn a 2009-10 CSCAA Team Scholar All-Academic Award. The award honors teams that display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.0 cumulative team GPA on a 4.0 scale.
Individually, Adeline Brym, class of 2010 from Mansfield, Ohio, and Neil Anderson, class of 2010 from Lakewood, Ohio, were both named honorable mention Scholar All-Americans for 2009-10. Honorable mention status is conferred to student-athletes who earn provisional (B Cut) qualifying times for the NCAA Division III Championship meet or compete in the event without earning All-America honors while maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale.
Brym finished 43rd in the 50 freestyle, 27th in the 100 backstroke and 27th in the 200 backstroke at the 2010 NCAA Division III Championships, a year after earning All-America honors with an eighth-place finish in the 200 backstroke. She reached the national meet even after missing the first half of the 2009-10 season to study at the Duke Marine Science Laboratory in Beaufort, N.C.
For her career, Brym earned nine All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) designations. She holds four individual school records and is a member of five record-setting relay teams.
Anderson earned NCAA Division III B cuts in each of his four seasons in the Red & White, but he missed out on the national meet by the slimmest of margins each time. In addition to five All-NCAC honors in his career, including three in the 2010 meet, Anderson is the school record-holder in the 500 freestyle and was a member of three record-setting relays in his career.
"Student-athletes must budget their time and organize themselves well to meet the challenges of both schoolwork and collegiate athletics," said Wittenberg Head Coach Natalie Koukis, a two-time NCAC Coach of the Year honoree. "I'm very proud of the fact that the student-athletes in this program can reach a high level of achievement in both areas."
The Tigers open the 2010-11 season on Oct. 23 at the annual NCAC Relays, hosted by Kenyon College. The dual meet portion of the schedule begins at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, when the Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops visit Wittenberg, followed by a trip to arch-rival Wooster at 1 p.m. the next day.