S&D Collects CSCAA Scholar All-American Honors
7/14/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
July 14, 2014
NEW YORK - Continuing a tradition of academic success that spans over a decade, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced that the Seton Hall men's and women's swimming & diving squads earned Scholar All-American honors for Spring 2014.
The Team Scholar All American award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams, who have achieved a team grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher. The award is presented twice annually, once in the fall and once in the spring.
No strangers to academic success, the award is the latest in what has been a steady precession of Scholar All-America awards for the Pirates. Seton Hall has now received the honor in all 14 years under head coach Ron Farina.
On the men's side, the Pirates posted the top GPA in the BIG EAST, coming in at a 3.26 mark that also ranked among the top-20 NCAA Division I programs in the nation.
The Seton Hall women ranked fourth in the conference and among the top-60 of all NCAA Division I programs, registering a 3.39 collective GPA that was an improvement on their award-winning mark from the fall.
The recognition of their scholastic achievement comes on the heels of a BIG EAST Championship in which the Pirates transformed the school record book with a total of seven conference titles.
Divers Ben Mitchell (Milford, Pa.) and Gabby Signorelli (Massapequa, N.Y.) each swept a pair of championships and were named Most Outstanding Divers of the meet while Kerrie Kolackovsky (Franklin Square, N.Y.) added a pair of gold medals of her own en route to a share of the Most Outstanding Female Swimmer Award. Junior James Logan (Wallingford, Pa.) added an individual championship for the men to round out the historic effort that nearly doubled the amount of conference titles in school history.
