Fourteen members of the Case Western Reserve University men's and women's swimming and diving teams were named individual CSCAA Scholar All-Americans and both Spartan teams received CSCAA Spring Scholar All-America team honors as announced by the organization on Friday.
Selected to the First Team were Mason Bencurik, Gabriella Chambers, Eliza Dixon, John Drumm, Griffin Gushman, Claire Kozma, Emil LaSida, Peter Meng, Kate Menzer, Angeli Paull, Simone Vale, and Abigail Wilkov. Earning Second Team recognition were Jocelyn Schechter and Alex Waltman.
Wilkov was honored for the fourth time in her career, earning First Team selections during each of her four seasons on campus. Drumm (Second Team 2023, First Team 2024), LaSida (Second Team 2023 and 2024), and Schechter (Second Team 2023 and 2024) were each honored for the third time in their careers. Dixon (First Team, 2024), Gushman (Second Team, 2023), Kozma (First Team, 2024), Meng (First Team, 2024), and Paull (First Team, 2024) were all honored for the second time. Bencurik, Chambers, Menzer, Vale, and Waltman earned their first career CSCAA Scholar All-America honors.
To be named to the First Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes must achieve a minimum GPA of 3.50 and participate in their respective national championship. Second Team selections also earned a GPA of 3.50 or higher and met the B time standard for the national championship or participated in a diving zone qualification meet.
To earn Scholar All-America Team honors, the women's team finished the spring semester with a GPA of 3.82, and the men's team registered a 3.77 GPA. Both teams placed in the top 10 in Division III with the women's team earning the seventh-best GPA and the men's team ranking 10th in the country.
To be selected as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team, programs must have a grade point average of 3.00 or higher for the spring semester. Across all three NCAA divisions, the NAIA, and the NJCAA, 763 teams from 432 institutions were honored.
The teams are led by Head Coach Doug Milliken, who recently completed his 15th year at the helm of the programs, Assistant Coach Matthew Schaeffer, and Diving Coach Morgan Gougler. In every season of Milliken's leadership, the CWRU swimming and diving teams have each earned CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honors.
Founded in 1922, the CSCAA is the nation's first organization of college coaches. The mission of the CSCAA is to advance the sport of swimming and diving with coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development.
The CWRU women's swimming and diving team finished 17th at the national championship meet with eight members of the team receiving All-America honors, and the Spartan men's team placed 25th with five members earning All-America recognition.
