Swimming Earns CSCAA Scholar All-America Team Honor for 11th Straight Semester

NORFOLK, Va. - For the 11th consecutive semester, the UNC Asheville swimming team earned College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team honors on Monday morning.

"The swimming program has once again shown we strive for excellence in the classroom and in the pool. The 2017 fall team grade-point average (GPA) of 3.41 is the second-highest the program has ever earned," said head swimming coach Elizabeth Lykins. "We'd like to thank Rebecca Nelms, Assistant Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Success, and Erin Punter Spence, Assistant Director of Compliance and Student Services, for their assistance in helping keep the team members on track with their school work. The swimming staff is proud to have the team's efforts recognized by the CSCAA and our coaching peers."

The teams represent 430 institutions from across all NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA Divisions which is the most ever for a fall semester. To earn the honor, teams were required to post a GPA of 3.0 or higher for the fall semester, and the Bulldogs posted a 3.41 GPA for the 2017 fall semester.

Eight of the nine Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) teams were awarded with the honor.

Per the CSCAA

Among programs with a dozen or more student-athletes, Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois posted the highest GPA. The Prairie Fire women led the way with a 3.80 average. Drexel University and Macalester College's men were close behind with 3.77 GPA's to lead Division I women and Division III men's programs respectively.

The teams excelled both in the classroom and the pool with 85% of Top 25 programs earning the honor, including the top-ranked teams in Division I (California Men, Texas A&M women), Division II (Drury women and Queens University of Charlotte men) and Division III (Kenyon women, and Denison men).

Emmanuel College (3.71) led the pack among Division II women's programs while Grand Canyon University's men achieved a 3.71 to lead Division I men. In the NAIA, Lindsey Wilson College men and the University of the Cumberlands women topped the list with 3.53 and 3.64 respectively. Indian River State College (3.43) and Lincoln College (3.26) were best among women's and men's programs the NJCAA.

Below is the full list of Division I teams that qualified for the honor.

1 3.77 Drexel

2 3.72 Grand Canyon

3 3.70 Gardner-Webb

4 3.69 South Carolina

5 3.69 Louisville

6 3.68 Denver

7 3.67 Brown

8 3.65 Iona

9 3.64 Southern Illinois

10 3.64 Saint Francis (PA)

11 3.64 Bowling Green

12 3.60 Marshall

13 3.59 Stanford

14 3.59 Seattle

15 3.59 Northern Iowa

16 3.59 Loyola (MD)

17 3.59 Boise State

18 3.58 Villanova

19 3.58 IUPUI

20 3.58 Georgetown

21 3.58 Eastern Michigan

22 3.58 Columbia

23 3.58 Ball State

24 3.57 Iowa State

25 3.57 Fordham

26 3.57 Arkansas

27 3.55 Miami (FL)

28 3.55 Georgia Southern

29 3.54 Rice

30 3.54 Indiana State

31 3.54 Campbell

32 3.53 Seton Hall

33 3.53 NC State

34 3.52 Xavier

35 3.52 Arizona

36 3.51 Nevada

37 3.51 Eastern Illinois

38 3.51 Duquesne

39 3.51 California

40 3.51 American

41 3.51 Alabama

42 3.50 Southern Methodist

43 3.50 South Dakota State

44 3.50 Rider

45 3.50 Ohio State

46 3.50 Nebraska

47 3.50 LIU-Brooklyn

48 3.50 Incarnate Word

49 3.50 Hawaii

50 3.50 East Carolina

51 3.49 Utah

52 3.49 Toledo

53 3.49 Northern Colorado

54 3.49 Missouri State

55 3.49 Miami (OH)

56 3.49 Kentucky

57 3.49 Cincinnati

58 3.48 Yale

59 3.48 Northwestern

60 3.48 Northeastern

61 3.48 Kansas

62 3.48 George Mason

63 3.48 Colgate

64 3.47 Vermont

65 3.47 South Dakota

66 3.47 Liberty

67 3.47 Illinois State

68 3.47 Houston

69 3.47 Harvard

70 3.47 Duke

71 3.47 Akron

72 3.46 SUNY Buffalo

73 3.46 Siena

74 3.46 Northern Arizona

75 3.46 Nebraska-Omaha

76 3.45 William & Mary

77 3.45 Sacred Heart

78 3.45 Rhode Island

79 3.45 Notre Dame

80 3.45 Idaho

81 3.45 Evansville

82 3.44 Saint Louis

83 3.44 Providence

84 3.44 New Hampshire

85 3.44 Michigan State

86 3.43 Rutgers

87 3.43 Purdue

88 3.43 Minnesota

89 3.43 Illinois

90 3.42 Florida State

91 3.42 Florida

92 3.42 Canisius

93 3.41 UNC Asheville

94 3.41 San Jose State

95 3.41 Loyola Marymount

96 3.40 Tulane

97 3.40 Texas

98 3.40 Missouri

99 3.39 Penn State

100 3.39 Dartmouth

101 3.39 Bucknell

102 3.39 Arizona State

103 3.38 Penn

104 3.38 La Salle

105 3.38 Indiana

106 3.38 George Washington

107 3.37 Wagner

108 3.37 Virginia Tech

109 3.37 Pittsburgh

110 3.37 Old Dominion

111 3.37 Little Rock

112 3.37 Florida International

113 3.37 Davidson

114 3.36 Butler

115 3.36 Boston College

116 3.35 Wright State

117 3.35 Tennessee

118 3.35 Ohio

119 3.35 New Mexico State

120 3.35 Colorado State

121 3.35 Cleveland State

122 3.34 Lafayette

123 3.34 Florida Gulf Coast

124 3.33 Princeton

125 3.32 Michigan

126 3.32 Cornell

127 3.31 North Texas

128 3.31 Iowa

129 3.30 West Virginia

130 3.30 Texas Christian

131 3.30 Oregon State

132 3.30 North Carolina

133 3.29 Texas A&M

134 3.29 Oakland

135 3.29 Marist

136 3.29 Bryant

137 3.29 Boston University

138 3.29 Binghamton

139 3.28 James Madison

140 3.28 Auburn

141 3.27 Virginia

142 3.27 Illinois-Chicago

143 3.26 Washington State

144 3.26 UMBC

145 3.26 North Florida

146 3.26 Lehigh

147 3.26 Georgia

148 3.26 Connecticut

149 3.25 Massachusetts

150 3.24 Vanderbilt

151 3.24 Mount St. Mary's

152 3.23 Towson

153 3.23 Southern California

154 3.22 Youngstown State

155 3.22 UCLA

156 3.22 Richmond

157 3.21 UC Santa Barbara

158 3.20 St. Bonaventure

159 3.20 Pepperdine

160 3.20 Fairfield

161 3.18 UNLV

162 3.18 San Diego

163 3.17 UC-Davis

164 3.17 Brigham Young

165 3.14 Fresno State

166 3.10 Wisconsin

167 3.09 San Diego State

168 3.09 Louisiana State

169 3.07 Georgia Tech

170 3.05 Manhattan

171 3.03 Air Force

172 3.02 Pacific

173 3.00 Army / West Point

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Swimming Earns CSCAA Scholar All-America Team Honor for 11th Straight Semester

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