Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University’s women’s swimming and diving team recently earned recognition from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) as a recipient of a Scholar All-America Team award for the spring 2014 semester. 

The award honors teams that display excellence in the classroom by maintaining at least a 3.0 cumulative team grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. The Tigers, who compiled a 3.01 GPA in the semester that concluded in May, have earned Scholar All-America status every year since Head Coach Natalie Koukis took the reins of the program in 2004. 

“Our student-athletes continue to take tremendous pride in succeeding both in the classroom and in the pool,” Koukis said. “Student-athletes must show an extraordinary amount of dedication, commitment and organization to succeed at the collegiate level, and once again the members of the Wittenberg women’s swimming and diving program have met the challenge.” 

The Tigers posted a dual meet record of 7-4 in the 2013-14 season before finishing fifth in the always-challenging North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) championship meet in February. Molly Gustafson (West Hartford, Conn./Conard), class of 2014, earned her third NCAA Division III berth and competing in three events at the championship meet March 19-22. 

The 2014-15 season opens with the annual NCAC Relay Meet on Saturday, Oct. 18, at Kenyon. The dual meet campaign kicks off a week later with a road trip to Wooster.

Written By: Ryan Maurer