University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Swimming Teams Earn CSCAA Scholar Honors
June 30, 2015 | Swimming & Diving, Academics
Swimmers and divers have traditionally been considered excellent students and the numbers tend to back it up. The College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has designated a record 406 collegiate swimming and diving programs as Scholar All-America Teams. The recognition comes as a result of the programs' classroom performance in the past semester. It is the first time in the program's 30+ year history of the program that more than 600 teams, representing 406 institutions received the designation.
Both the men's and women's swimmers from the University of North Carolina qualified for inclusion on this past semester's list, a credit to UNC head coach Rich DeSelm and his staff. The Carolina women had a cumulative 3.18 grade point average for the spring semester while the Tar Heel men had a GPA of 3.09.
Nearly 70% of all NCAA swimming and diving programs earned GPA's of 3.0 or higher during the spring semester including 83% of all NCAA Division I schools. The announcement comes on the heels of a NCAA report on the Academic Progress Rate of Division I sports. That report showed that Division I men's and women's swimming and diving teams posted the second highest Academic Progress Rates (APR) among those sports with 50 or more teams.
To be selected as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team, programs must have achieved a grade point average of 3.00 or higher over the Spring semester. Founded in 1922, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) – the oldest organization of college coaches in America - is a professional organization of college swimming and diving coaches dedicated to serving and providing leadership for the advancement of the sport of swimming & diving at the collegiate level.