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Posted: Jul 16, 2014

Women’s Swimming Receives Team Scholar Award from CSCAA

Women’s Swimming Receives Team Scholar Award from CSCAA

(EVANSTON, Ill.) – 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 six individuals were also named. The 2014 CSCAA Scholar All-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 women's team earned a 3.34 for the spring semester.

Individually, seniors Megan Garvey (West Chester, Pa./Villa Maria Academy) and Soleil Phan (Irvine, Calif./Beckman) and sophomore Kira Singhaus (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill West) were Scholar All-Americans as they met the requirements of a grade point average of 3.5 or higher for the semester or cumulative average and competed at the NCAA Championship. Garvey was selected to compete at the NCAA meet in the 200-yard butterfly while Phan earned her way there in the 500-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relay. For Singhaus, the second-year swimmer made the NCAA meet for the first time in the 400-yard medley relay and in both backstroke events.

Freshmen Machika Kaku (Irvine, Calif./University), Amanda Kuhn (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) and Lauren Zemering (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem Central) 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.

Kaku competed at the regional diving meet in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events to earn her award while Kuhn swam to provisional qualifying times in the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. Zemering met the time standards in the 800-yard freestyle relay.