Posted: Jul 17, 2024

Men’s Swimming and Diving Honored by CSCAA for Academics

(NORFOLK, Va.) – 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 12 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 men's team earned a 3.61 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

Sophomore Arnav Deshpande – business administration

Graduate student Willem Goedecke - civil and environmental engineering

Senior Santiago Gomez - mechanical engineering

Freshman Miles Haraldsson - materials science and engineering

Junior Christian Lanuza - statistics and machine learning

Freshman Aaron Lee - information systems

Sophomore DJ Lloyd – electrical and computer engineering

Freshman Brayden Morford - mechanical engineering

Graduate student Aleksander Tarczynski - electrical and computer engineering

Second Team Honors

Senior Tyler Hoyt – mechanical engineering