University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
Hammond, Lenz Lead 23 with All-Academic Honors
March 29, 2017 | Swimming & Diving
SAN FRANCISCO โ Twenty-three Bruins earned 2017 Pac-12 Conference Swimming and Diving All-Academic honors Wednesday, as announced by Commissioner Larry Scott.
Two members of the UCLA swimming and diving team earned First-Team honors, while three achieved Second-Team status. Eighteen others rounded out the Honorable Mention category, making the nearly two dozen Bruins tops in the Pac-12.
Seniors Emily Hammond and Annika Lenz garnered First-Team accolades. Hammond, a Business Economics major with a 3.78 grade-point average (GPA), posted four season-best times in exhibition swims at the Pac-12 Swimming and Diving Championships in Federal Way, Wash. Lenz, a Psychobiology major with a 3.90 GPA, reached the podium in the 3-meter diving event at Pac-12 Championships with a final-round score of 330.90. She went on to qualify for all three diving competitions at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis. This is the third First-Team honor for each student-athlete. Freshmen are not eligible for the honor.
Second-Team selections included juniors Marie-Pierre Delisle (Civil Engineering, 3.66) and Katie Grover (Political Science, 3.63) and sophomore Caroline McTaggart (Undeclared, 3.58). Delisle and Grover each garnered her second Pac-12 All-Academic team selection, while McTaggart collected her first.
Earning Honorable Mention honors were seniors Nina Hayes, Linnea Mack, Savannah Steffen, Hayden Walker, Madison White and Brigitte Winkler, juniors Natalie Amberg, Maddy Burnham, Sarah Kaunitz, Ciara Monahan, Maria Polyakova and Carly Reid and sophomoresย Elena Escalas, Kat Friese, Sabrina Kwok, Madeline Russell, Traci Shiver and Sandra Soe.
To be eligible for selection to the academic team, a student-athlete must have a minimum 3.0 overall grade-point average and participate in at least half of their team's scheduled regular season events.
This is the latest in academic awards for the UCLA swimming and diving team, which was named a College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team in January. The award recognized teams that achieved a GPA of 3.0 or higher during the 2016 Fall Semester.
