Individuals, Team Earn Academic Honors from CSCAA
6/17/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team was honored as an Academic All-American Team by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America following the completion of the 2002-03 academic year. Head coach Jim Richardson's squad compiled a 3.11 grade point average for the school year.
Four Wolverines earned individual recognition, with junior Lori Eberwein (Maple Glen, Pa./Upper Dublin HS), junior Sara Johnson (West Bloomfield, Mich./Andover HS) and sophomore Amy McCullough (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Mercy HS) making the Academic All-American team and junior diver Kelly Vander Kuyl (Rockford, Mich./Rockford HS) earning honorable mention.
Qualifications for the CSCAA Academic All-American team include a 3.5 grade point average for the year and qualifying for the NCAA Championships. Honorable mention required a 3.5 GPA and qualification for the NCAA zone diving meet or achieving a "B" time standard.
Eberwein was one of nine Wolverines to qualify for the 2003 NCAA Championships in Auburn, Ala. She earned All-America honorable mention as the anchor of the 800-yard freestyle relay, and she finished among the nation's top 34 swimmers in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Eberwein is a psychology major in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
A Big Ten Conference champion in the 200-yard individual medley, Johnson earned All-America honorable mention as a part of Michigan's 800-yard freestyle relay team. Johnson, whose Big Ten win in the 200 IM was the Wolverines' first conference title since 2000, posted the 20th-fastest mark in the nation at the NCAA Championships. She is concentrating in mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering.
McCullough was the Maize and Blue's only individual NCAA All-American, posting a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle at the NCAA meet. She also was part of three All-America honorable mention relay teams, as she helped the 200-yard medley and 400- and 800-yard freestyle relays to top-16 finishes. A movement science major in Division of Kinesiology, McCullough set the U-M record in the 200-yard freestyle last season.
Vander Kuyl earned CSCAA Academic All-America honorable mention by qualifying for the NCAA Region IV Zone Diving meet. She finished eighth in the region on the platform and was 15th in the one-meter competition. Vander Kuyl is concentrating in anthropology in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
The CSCAA team honor is the ninth for Michigan since 1992. Eberwein, Johnson and McCullough join U-M's 14 previous CSCAA Academic All-American honorees, while Vander Kuyl is the 11th Wolverine to earn CSCAA honorable mention.
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