Women's Swimming and Diving Honored by CSCAA for Academics

(NORFOLK, Va.) – The Carnegie Mellon University women's swimming and diving team was honored by the College Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) with a Team Scholar All-America award as eight individuals were also named CSCAA Scholar All-Americans.

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 women's team earned a 3.72 GPA for the spring semester and also earned the award following the fall semester in which they recorded a 3.65 team GPA.

To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes earned a minimum GPA of 3.5 and participated in their national championship.  Second-Team selections also earned a 3.50 GPA or higher and achieved a "B" time standard for the national championship or participated at a diving zone qualification meet.

First Team Honors

Freshman Natalia Evans-Gibson - electrical and computer engineering

Freshman Alexandra Scharpf - information systems

Sophomore Elizabeth Shaffer - mechanical engineering

Junior Audrey Soetanto - statistics and machine learning

Junior Savannah Xu - information systems

Second Team Honors

Sophomore Cat Bryan - business

Junior Sophie Elliott - neuroscience

Senior Kyndall Tatum - chemical engineering