Bridgeport Swimmers Well Represented On CSCAA Scholar All-America Team And Individual Lists
UB Women Earn 14th Consecutive Team Academic Award And Nine Different Swimmers Capture Individual Academic Honors
Bridgeport, Conn.-The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has announced its Spring 2011 Team and 201-11 Individual Scholar All-America list, and the University of Bridgeport women's and men's programs are well represented for their excellence in the classroom as well as in the pool.
For the fourteenth straight semester, the UB women's swimming squad has received a CSCAA Team Scholar All-America Award. The Purple Knight women have earned this prestigious academic award every semester since the team became a varsity program. To earn a CSCAA Team Scholar All-America Award, a program must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00. For the Spring 2011 semester, the Bridgeport women's swimming team posted a team GPA of 3.25, which was the seventeenth best in all of NCAA Division II women's swimming.
On the Individual Scholar All-America list, UB was well represented on the men's side with every swimmer that qualified for the 2011 Men's NCAA National Championship Meet receiving the award. To earn Individual Scholar CSCAA All-America, the student-athlete must have qualified for the 2011 NCAA Swimming & Diving National Championships and earned a minimum GPA of 3.5. The following members of the UB Purple Knights Men's Swimming Team earned this award for 2010-11:
Toni Valcic – 3.89 GPA (Spring 2011)
Piotr Safronczyk – 3.67 GPA (Fall 2010)
Oscar Pereiro – 3.67 GPA (Spring 2011)
Nikola Savic – 3.56 GPA (Spring 2011)
Additionally, Bridgeport swimmers earned five spots on the CSCAA Honorable Mention Individual Scholar All-America list as well, as four women and one man male swimmer were recognized. To earn CSCAA Honorable Mention Individual Scholar All-America, the student-athlete must have accumulated a minimum GPA of 3.5 and have achieved at least one NCAA "B" Qualifying Standard. The following members of the UB Purple Knights Swimming Team earned CSCAA Honorable Mention Individual Scholar All-America honors for 2010-11:
Maris Visse (Women) – 3.93 GPA (Spring 2011)
Sandra Schmitz (Women) – 3.90 GPA (Fall 2010)
Anna Kwiatkowska (Women) – 3.78 GPA (Spring 2011)
Florian Mehlan (Men) – 3.72 (Fall 2010)
Anna Krasnowska (Women) – 3.53 GPA (Spring 2011)