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Maggie Boyd (left) and Sally Perez
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Nine Bruins Earn Academic All-District At-Large Honors
June 16, 2026 | Men's Volleyball, Men's Water Polo, Women's Rowing, Women's Water Polo, Beach Volleyball, Gymnastics, Bruin Athletics
GREENWOOD, Ind. โ Nine UCLA student-athletes were announced Tuesday as Academic All-District honorees by College Sports Communicators (CSC). All nine garnered recognition as part of the At-Large program, which factors in 23 NCAA men's and women's sports from across the country.
Maggie Boyd (beach volleyball), Sally Perez (beach volleyball), Riley Jenkins (gymnastics), Mika Webster-Longin (gymnastics), Kaija Frassrand (rowing) and Emma Lineback (women's water polo) qualified on the women's side. Sean Kelly (men's volleyball), Chase Dodd (men's water polo) and Noah Rowe (men's water polo) made the cut on the men's side.
In order to be eligible, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and possess a cumulative undergraduate and graduate, if applicable, grade-point average of 3.50 or better. Boyd, Perez, Lineback, Kelly and Dodd are also on the ballot for Academic All-America consideration. CSC will reveal those lists July 7 (women) and 8 (men).
The two-time MPSF Pair of the Year, Boyd and Perez, led the UCLA beach volleyball team to its third NCAA championship in May, clinching the championship with a straight-set win on Court 1 over top-seeded Stanford. The duo went 33-6 on the No. 1 court and earned AVCA Top Flight honors for the second-straight year. Each earned first-team All-America and All-MPSF honors, with Boyd becoming the seventh player in NCAA history to earn four first-team All-America honors.
Boyd, a senior psychology major from Flower Mound, Texas, was named the AVCA National Player of the Year and finished her career with 122 wins to rank No. 4 all-time at UCLA. She also ranks No. 2 and No. 4 on UCLA's career pairs victories list, totaling 61 wins with Perez and 57 with Lexy Denaburg. Boyd is a standout in the classroom as well, earning second-team Academic All-America honors and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award in 2025. Perez, a sophomore psychology major from Apex, N.C., was the MPSF Player of the Year and a finalist for the AVCA National Player of the Year award. She led the Bruins in wins with 34 and has already totaled 65 wins in her career, ranking 23rd all time at UCLA.
Sophomore gymnasts Jenkins and Webster-Longin helped lead UCLA to a fifth-place national finish and to its second consecutive Big Ten championship. They are unbeaten in Big Ten play in their career, going 18-0 across two seasons, and each earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Jenkins, a psychology major from Burbank, Calif., won a share of the 2026 Big Ten vault championship, scoring a career-high 9.950, to earn Big Ten All-Championship Team honors. She competed on vault in every meet and averaged 9.828 on the year. Webster-Longin, a history and sociology major with an African American Studies minor, earned second-team All-America honors in the all-around after an eighth-place finish in the second session of the NCAA Championships. She contributed 9.8-or-better scores on 28 of her 32 routines on the year and scored a career-high 39.550 in the all-around at the Big Ten Championships.
Senior Frassrand was one of two Bruins included on the All-Big Ten First Team for the 2025-26 season. A staple in the 1V8+, Frassrand has earned All-Big Ten honors in back-to-back campaigns with the Bruins as a rower in UCLA's top boat. She helped the Bruins to fourth place in the grand finals of the first varsity eight in Indianapolis this May; UCLA placed fifth overall as a team at the Big Ten Championships. Frassrand also racked up academic accolades over the last two seasons as she was named Big Ten All-Academic and a CRCA Scholar Athlete as both a junior and a senior.
Kelly, an outside hitter from Manhattan Beach, Calif., earns his first CSC Academic All-District honors in 2026. The sophomore led the Bruins in total kills as UCLA went 29-2 on the year and was the No. 1 ranked team in the country throughout the entire regular season. Kelly, a business economics major, recorded 396 kills and hit .398 on the year.
Dodd, Rowe and the men's water polo team earned their second NCAA title in as many years โ and 14th in program history โ beating top-seeded USC in an 11-10 thriller (Dec. 7). Dodd was named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team after scoring four goals across three games, including two in the final. He ranked among the team leaders in goals (42), assists (42), steals (24) and earned exclusions (22). This is the latest award for redshirt senior from Long Beach, Calif., who has received the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, been named to the ACWPC All-America and All-MPSF West first teams and collected academic accolades from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten since late 2025.
This is Rowe's second All-District nod (also 2024). The senior from North Tustin, Calif. logged four multi-goal games and found the back of the net 23 times in all. He finished the campaign tied, with Chase Dodd, for the team lead in field blocks with 14. Rowe has also been recognized by the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten for his work in the classroom.
Lineback, a redshirt senior from Laguna Beach, Calif., added another honor to her decorated career and final season as a Bruin. Her second All-District pick (2025) accompanies additional academic awards from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten this year. Lineback tallied 34 goals in 2026 and ranked among the MPSF's leaders in assists, capturing a spot on the All-MPSF Second Team while receiving honorable mention from the ACWPC when its All-America list was finalized.
Maggie Boyd (beach volleyball), Sally Perez (beach volleyball), Riley Jenkins (gymnastics), Mika Webster-Longin (gymnastics), Kaija Frassrand (rowing) and Emma Lineback (women's water polo) qualified on the women's side. Sean Kelly (men's volleyball), Chase Dodd (men's water polo) and Noah Rowe (men's water polo) made the cut on the men's side.
In order to be eligible, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and possess a cumulative undergraduate and graduate, if applicable, grade-point average of 3.50 or better. Boyd, Perez, Lineback, Kelly and Dodd are also on the ballot for Academic All-America consideration. CSC will reveal those lists July 7 (women) and 8 (men).
The two-time MPSF Pair of the Year, Boyd and Perez, led the UCLA beach volleyball team to its third NCAA championship in May, clinching the championship with a straight-set win on Court 1 over top-seeded Stanford. The duo went 33-6 on the No. 1 court and earned AVCA Top Flight honors for the second-straight year. Each earned first-team All-America and All-MPSF honors, with Boyd becoming the seventh player in NCAA history to earn four first-team All-America honors.
Boyd, a senior psychology major from Flower Mound, Texas, was named the AVCA National Player of the Year and finished her career with 122 wins to rank No. 4 all-time at UCLA. She also ranks No. 2 and No. 4 on UCLA's career pairs victories list, totaling 61 wins with Perez and 57 with Lexy Denaburg. Boyd is a standout in the classroom as well, earning second-team Academic All-America honors and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award in 2025. Perez, a sophomore psychology major from Apex, N.C., was the MPSF Player of the Year and a finalist for the AVCA National Player of the Year award. She led the Bruins in wins with 34 and has already totaled 65 wins in her career, ranking 23rd all time at UCLA.
Sophomore gymnasts Jenkins and Webster-Longin helped lead UCLA to a fifth-place national finish and to its second consecutive Big Ten championship. They are unbeaten in Big Ten play in their career, going 18-0 across two seasons, and each earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Jenkins, a psychology major from Burbank, Calif., won a share of the 2026 Big Ten vault championship, scoring a career-high 9.950, to earn Big Ten All-Championship Team honors. She competed on vault in every meet and averaged 9.828 on the year. Webster-Longin, a history and sociology major with an African American Studies minor, earned second-team All-America honors in the all-around after an eighth-place finish in the second session of the NCAA Championships. She contributed 9.8-or-better scores on 28 of her 32 routines on the year and scored a career-high 39.550 in the all-around at the Big Ten Championships.
Senior Frassrand was one of two Bruins included on the All-Big Ten First Team for the 2025-26 season. A staple in the 1V8+, Frassrand has earned All-Big Ten honors in back-to-back campaigns with the Bruins as a rower in UCLA's top boat. She helped the Bruins to fourth place in the grand finals of the first varsity eight in Indianapolis this May; UCLA placed fifth overall as a team at the Big Ten Championships. Frassrand also racked up academic accolades over the last two seasons as she was named Big Ten All-Academic and a CRCA Scholar Athlete as both a junior and a senior.
Kelly, an outside hitter from Manhattan Beach, Calif., earns his first CSC Academic All-District honors in 2026. The sophomore led the Bruins in total kills as UCLA went 29-2 on the year and was the No. 1 ranked team in the country throughout the entire regular season. Kelly, a business economics major, recorded 396 kills and hit .398 on the year.
Dodd, Rowe and the men's water polo team earned their second NCAA title in as many years โ and 14th in program history โ beating top-seeded USC in an 11-10 thriller (Dec. 7). Dodd was named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team after scoring four goals across three games, including two in the final. He ranked among the team leaders in goals (42), assists (42), steals (24) and earned exclusions (22). This is the latest award for redshirt senior from Long Beach, Calif., who has received the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, been named to the ACWPC All-America and All-MPSF West first teams and collected academic accolades from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten since late 2025.
This is Rowe's second All-District nod (also 2024). The senior from North Tustin, Calif. logged four multi-goal games and found the back of the net 23 times in all. He finished the campaign tied, with Chase Dodd, for the team lead in field blocks with 14. Rowe has also been recognized by the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten for his work in the classroom.
Lineback, a redshirt senior from Laguna Beach, Calif., added another honor to her decorated career and final season as a Bruin. Her second All-District pick (2025) accompanies additional academic awards from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten this year. Lineback tallied 34 goals in 2026 and ranked among the MPSF's leaders in assists, capturing a spot on the All-MPSF Second Team while receiving honorable mention from the ACWPC when its All-America list was finalized.
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