Men’s Swimming Receives Team Scholar Award from CSCAA
Posted: Jul 16, 2013

Men’s Swimming Receives Team Scholar Award from CSCAA

(EVANSTON, Ill.) – The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team was honored by the College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) with a Team Scholar All-America award as five individuals were also named. The 2013 CSCAA Scholar Al-America Team and Individual Scholar All-Americans are supported by Nike.

The Team Scholar All-America award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The men's team earned a 3.22 for the spring semester.

Individually, junior Austin Bohn (Annville, Pa./Annville-Cleona), sophomore David Campbell (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional), and freshmen Phillip Farr (Campbell, Calif./Bellarmine College), Steven Geier (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) and Christopher Wysocki (Rockville, Md./Winston Churchill) met the requirements for Honorable Mention Scholar All-America. The Honorable Mention Scholar All-America award is presented to college and university swimmers and divers, who have achieved a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, for the semester or cumulative average, and have achieved a "B" time standard, but have not qualified to compete in their respective national championship.

Campbell, Farr and Wysocki each achieved a "B" time standard in individual events while Bohn and Geier were part of relays. Campbell's top times came in the 400-yard IM and 200-yard butterfly while Farr met the time standard in the 100-yard breaststroke and Wysocki in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Bohn was part of the 200-yard and 400-yard medley relays that achieved the "B" standard as Geier joined the 800-yard freestyle relay in its qualification.