ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® TEAM

S ELECTED BY C O SIDA

For Release: Thursday, June 8 – 12 noon ET

ANTON McKEE OF ALABAMA, SARAH GIBSON OF TEXAS A&M HEADLINE CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I AT-LARGE TEAMS

AUSTIN, Texas – University of Alabama senior swimmer Anton McKee and Texas A&M University senior swimmer Sarah Gibson headline the 2017 Academic All-America® Division I Men’s and Women’s At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

McKee and Gibson have been selected as the 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team Members of the Year for the Division I Men’s and Women’s At-Large programs, respectively. The at-large teams for the Academic All- America® program include the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis and water polo for both men and women, as well as beach volleyball, bowling, crew and field hockey for women, and volleyball and wrestling for men.

McKee, who compiled a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. as a management information systems major, is a repeat selection as the Academic All-America® Men’s At-Large Team Member of the Year, becoming the fifth student-athlete to earn that honor twice, and the first since Stanford wrestler Nick Amuchastegui in 2011 and 2012.

McKee is also a rare three-time CoSIDA Academic All-America® selection, earning first-team honors for the second year in a row after collecting third-team accolades in 2015. A native of Hafnarfjör∂ur, Iceland, McKee was an 11-time All-American and three-time Southeastern Conference champion while competing in breaststroke, freestyle, individual medley and medley relay events, notably finishing in the top five at the NCAA Championships in his specialty, the 200-meter breaststroke, during each of his four seasons at Alabama, capped by a runner-up finish in 2017. The reigning SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year, McKee helped the Crimson Tide to NCAA top-10 finishes the past three seasons, marking the first time Alabama has pulled off that feat since 1981-83.

Gibson is a two-time Academic All-America® selection, appearing on the first team for the second year in a row. The San Antonio, Texas, resident maintained a 4.0 G.P.A. as a biomedical engineering major at Texas A&M. Gibson is the second Aggie to earn Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year honors in any sport, and the first since 1987, when football standout (and 2003 Academic All-America® Hall of Fame selection) Kip Corrington received that distinction.

In the pool, Gibson was a nine-time All-American and won seven SEC titles during her career, competing in the butterfly, freestyle and medley relay events. She was named the SEC Swimmer of the Meet and earned the SEC Commissioner’s Trophy for high-point honors in 2017, helping Texas A&M to its second consecutive SEC crown. The SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year then played a key role in leading the Aggies to a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships, the best showing in program history.

Nearly two-thirds (27) of the 45 student-athletes on the 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Men’s At- Large Team earned at least a 3.90 G.P.A., with 16 compiling a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. or higher. The 15 first-team members had an average G.P.A. of 3.91, including six student-athletes with a 4.0 G.P.A.

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In addition to his repeat performance as the Academic All-America® Men’s At-Large Team Member of the Year, McKee is among 15 male student-athletes on the 2017 squad who now have earned multiple Academic All-America® citations. The other men who repeated as Academic All-America® student-athletes this year are led by two other rare three-time Academic All-America® honorees besides McKee in University of California-Berkeley senior swimmer Ryan Murphy and Alabama senior swimmer Connor Oslin. Twelve other student-athletes are two-time Academic All-America® choices, including seven on the first team — U.S. Naval Academy senior swimmer Ryan Bailey, Ohio State University senior volleyball player Christy Blough, University of Minnesota senior wrestler Michael Kroells, Brown University senior lacrosse standout Dylan Molloy, University of Michigan junior swimmer PJ Ransford, Penn State University junior wrestler Zain Retherford and Alabama senior swimmer Pavel Romanov.

Murphy and Oslin appeared on the CoSIDA Academic All-America® First Team for the second year in a row, with Murphy garnering second-team accolades and Oslin making the third team in 2015. Meanwhile, Blough and Kroells returned to the Academic All-America® First Team for the second year in a row. Ransford, Retherford and Romanov received first-team recognition this year after earning spots on the Academic All-America® Second Team a season ago, while Bailey and Molloy moved up to the first team this year following placement on the Academic All-America® Third Team in 2016.

The other returnees to the Academic All-America® Men’s At-Large Team include South Dakota State University senior swimmer Weston Christensen, U.S. Air Force Academy senior tennis player Lucas Fumagalli, Florida State University senior diver Dylan Grisell, University of Southern California junior water polo player Mihajlo Milicevic and Minnesota senior wrestler Brett Pfarr. Christensen, Fumagalli, Grisell and Pfarr earned second-team honors this year after appearing on the Academic All-America® Third Team last season, while Milicevic collected a third- team citation this year following second-team accolades in 2016.

On the women’s side, more than two-thirds (32) of the 46 members of the 2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At-Large Team posted at least a 3.90 G.P.A., including 21 student-athletes with a spotless 4.0 G.P.A. The 15 first-team members registered an average G.P.A. of 3.91, with more than half (nine) logging a 4.0 G.P.A.

There are 16 student-athletes on this year’s Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At-Large Team that are two- time Academic All-America® choices, including 10 on the first team, which is led by Gibson. The other student- athletes on the first team who earned their second Academic All-America® honors are Alabama junior gymnast Mackenzie Brannan, University of North Carolina senior tennis player Hayley Carter, Bowling Green State University senior gymnast Lauren Feely, University of Kentucky senior swimmer Danielle Galyer, West Virginia University junior rifle standout Elizabeth Gratz, University of Notre Dame senior fencer Lee Kiefer, University of Florida junior gymnast Alex McMurtry, University of Maryland senior lacrosse player Zoe Stukenberg and University of Georgia senior swimmer Chantal Van Landeghem.

Along with Gibson, Carter, Galyer and Kiefer are two-time first-team selections, with Carter, Galyer and Gibson receiving top honors the past two seasons, while Kiefer was a first-team choice in 2015 before redshirting in 2016 to represent the United States at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brannan was a second-team pick in 2016 before moving up to the Academic All-America® First Team this year, while Feely, Gratz, McMurtry and Stukenberg all moved from third-team selections last season to the Academic All-America® First Team in 2017. Van Landeghem also made the jump to the first team this season after earning a place on the Academic All-America® Third Team in 2015, then taking the 2016 season off to compete for her native Canada at the Rio Olympics.

Six other female student-athletes are two-time selections to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At-Large Team — Michigan senior gymnast Nicole Artz, University of Albany field hockey player Paula Heuser, Harvard University senior fencer Adrienne Jarocki, Hofstra University senior field hockey player Stella Schoen, Minnesota senior ice hockey standout Lee Stecklein and Kentucky senior tennis player Aldila Sutjiadi. Heuser, Schoen and Stecklein repeated as second-team honorees this year, while Artz and Sutjiadi moved up to the Academic All-America® Second Team after receiving third-team recognition in 2016. Jarocki earned third-team plaudits this season after garnering second-team honors a year ago.

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CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Men’s At-Large Team

Led by McKee, the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Men’s At-Large First Team includes six student- athletes with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. or better. The others are Ransford, Romanov, University of Alaska-Fairbanks senior skier Michael Fehrenbach, North Carolina State University junior swimmer Anton Ipsen and North Dakota State University junior wrestler Clay Ream.

The rest of the Academic All-America® First Team is also highlighted by multi-time selections Bailey, Blough, Kroells, Molloy, Murphy, Oslin and Retherford. Rounding out the top squad are University of Texas senior swimmer P.J. Dunne and Alabama junior swimmer Luke Kaliszak.

The CoSIDA Academic All-America® Second Team is led by two-time selections Christensen, Fumagalli, Grisell and Pfarr, plus five student-athletes with a 4.0 G.P.A. — Gardner-Webb University senior swimmer Connor Bos, College of William & Mary sophomore gymnast Jacopo Gliozzi, Bemidji State University senior ice hockey player Brendan Harms, Creighton University senior tennis standout Harrison Lang and University of Missouri senior golfer Euan Walker.

Completing the Academic All-America® Second Team are Purdue University junior swimmer Marat Amaltdinov, Bemidji State junior ice hockey player Michael Bitzer, Brown senior lacrosse standout Larken Kemp, Stanford University senior golfer Maverick McNealy, Penn State sophomore wrestler Jason Nolf and Ohio State junior wrestler Kyle Snyder.

The CoSIDA Academic All-America® Third Team features five more student-athletes with 4.0 G.P.A. or better — University of Hawai’i junior tennis player Felix Albert, Georgia Tech senior swimmer Robert Borowicz, Merrimack College senior ice hockey player Hampus Gustafsson, Bradley University senior golfer Bobby Jacobs and Georgia State University senior tennis standout Felipe Jaworski, who maintained a 4.22 G.P.A. in actuarial science.

The rest of the Academic All-America® Third Team includes University of South Carolina senior swimmer Jonathan Boland, University of Cincinnati senior swimmer Connor Davis, Notre Dame junior fencer Jonathan Fitzgerald, Bentley University senior ice hockey player Max French, Air Force sophomore ice hockey player Kyle Haak, Minnesota sophomore gymnast Justin Karstadt, Yale University junior lacrosse standout Ben Reeves, Union College (N.Y.) senior ice hockey player Mike Vecchione and Brown senior water polo player Luke Weiser.

CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At-Large Team

As noted, two-thirds (10) of the 15 student-athletes on the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At- Large First Team are returnees, with eight of those repeat selections among nine first-team picks who also recorded 4.0 G.P.A. — Brannan, Feely, Galyer, Gibson, Gratz, McMurtry, Stukenberg and Van Landeghem. The other first- team selection this year with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. was Alabama senior gymnast Keely McNeer.

Along with the aforementioned 4.0 designees, the other Academic All-America® first-team members this year are Kiefer, Southern California senior swimmer Anika Apostalon, Texas swimmer Madisyn Cox, Duke University junior golfer Leona Maguire and Stanford junior swimmer Simone Manuel.

The CoSIDA Academic All-America® Second Team is led by five two-time selections — Artz, Heuser, Schoen, Stecklein and Sutjiadi — and seven student-athletes with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. — Schoen, Liberty University senior field hockey player Serena Barr, Clemson University senior diver Sarah Braun, University of Nebraska junior gymnast Danielle Breen, Kent State University junior field hockey player Ines Delpech, Quinnipiac University senior field hockey player Angie King and Florida junior tennis player Josie Kuhlman.

Completing the Academic All-America® Second Team are Boise State University senior swimmer Brittany Aoyama, Penn State senior ice hockey standout Laura Bowman, Brown senior rower Ruby Moore-Bloom, Stanford senior water polo player Maggie Steffens and West Virginia sophomore rifle standout Ginny Thrasher.

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The CoSIDA Academic All-America® Third Team is highlighted by two-time honoree Jarocki as well as five student- athletes with 4.0 G.P.A. — West Virginia junior swimmer Amelie Currat, University of Southern Mississippi senior tennis player Carolin Drescher, University of North Dakota senior ice hockey player Steph Frey, American University senior field hockey standout Natalie Konerth and Long Beach State senior beach volleyball player Kobi Pekich.

The remainder of the Academic All-America® Third Team is made up of two Ohio State student-athletes in sophomore tennis player Francesca Di Lorenzo and senior fencer Eleanor Harvey, plus University of Tennessee- Martin senior tennis player Sarah Candeloro, University of New Hampshire senior skier Lizzie Gill, Southern California senior beach volleyball standout Nicolette Martin, Missouri senior swimmer Lauren Reedy, Baylor University senior tennis player Blair Shankle, Clarkson University junior ice hockey player Shea Tiley and Minnesota senior diver Yu Zhou.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University ([email protected]) (701) 231-8332 Academic All-America® Committee - Co-Director for Publicity/Communications

Chris Masters, Big Ten Conference ([email protected]) (847) 696-1010, ext. 146 Academic All-America® Committee - Coordinator of Publicity 2017 Academic All-America® Division I Men’s At-Large Team

FIRST TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Swimming Ryan Bailey (3) U.S. Naval Academy Sr. Youngstown, Ohio 3.98 Operations research Volleyball Christy Blough (1) Ohio State Sr. Ontario, N.Y. 3.98 Biomedical engineering Swimming P.J. Dunne Texas Sr. Pensacola, Fla. 3.99 Biochemistry / pre-med Skiing Michael Fehrenbach Alaska Fairbanks Sr. Saint Margen, Germany 4.00 Mechanical engineering Swimming Anton Ipsen North Carolina State Jr. Birkerod, Denmark 4.00 Industrial engineering Swimming Luke Kaliszak Alabama Jr. Huntsville, Ala. 3.93 Human perf. exercise science Wrestling Michael Kroells (1) Minnesota Sr. Belle Plaine, Minn. 3.92 Aerospace engineering Swimming Anton McKee (1) (#) Alabama Sr. Hafnarfjör∂ur, Iceland 4.00 Management information systems Lacrosse Dylan Molloy (3) Brown Sr. Setauket, N.Y. 3.72 Business, entrepreneurship & org. Swimming Ryan Murphy (1) (*) Cal Sr. Ponte Vedra, Fla. 3.54 Business administration Swimming Connor Oslin (1) (#) Alabama Sr. Kennesaw, Ga. 3.92 Biology (pre-med) Swimming PJ Ransford (2) Michigan Jr. Pittsford, N.Y. 4.00 Mechanical engineering Wrestling Clay Ream North Dakota State Jr. Wentzville, Mo. 4.00 Biochemistry & molecular biology Wrestling Zain Retherford (2) Penn State Jr. Benton, Pa. 3.72 Finance Swimming Pavel Romanov (2) Alabama Sr. Moscow, Russia 4.00 Economics / finance

SECOND TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Swimming Marat Amaltdinov Purdue Jr. Orenburg, Russia 3.81 Economics Ice Hockey Michael Bitzer Bemidji State Jr. Moorhead, Minn. 3.81 Exercise science Swimming Connor Bos Gardner-Webb Sr. Holland, Mich. 4.00 Business Swimming Weston Christensen (3) South Dakota State Sr. Pierre, S.D. 3.94 Civil engineering Tennis Lucas Fumagalli (3) U.S. Air Force Academy Sr. New Braunfels, Texas 3.85 Mechanical engineering Gymnastics Jacopo Gliozzi William & Mary So. Fairfax, Va. 4.00 Physics Diving Dylan Grisell (3) Florida State Sr. Toronto, Ontario 3.95 Biological science Ice Hockey Brendan Harms Bemidji State Sr. Steinbach, Manitoba 4.00 Business administration Lacrosse Larken Kemp Brown Sr. Greenwich, Conn. 3.83 Business, entrepreneurship & org. Tennis Harrison Lang Creighton Sr. Niwot, Colo. 4.00 Neuroscience Golf Maverick McNealy Stanford Sr. Portola Valley, Calif. 3.58 Management sci. & engineering Wrestling Jason Nolf Penn State So. Yatesboro, Pa. 3.75 Kinesiology Wrestling Brett Pfarr (3) Minnesota Sr. Le Sueur, Minn. 3.80 Agricultural & food business mgmt. Wrestling Kyle Snyder Ohio State Jr. Woodbine, Md. 3.60 Sport industry Golf Euan Walker Missouri Sr. Troon, Scotland 4.00 Mathematics

THIRD TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Tennis Felix Albert Hawai’i Jr. Karlstadt, Germany 4.00 Finance & international business Swimming Jonathan Boland South Carolina Sr. Columbia, S.C. 3.98 Exercise science Swimming Robert Borowicz Georgia Tech Sr. Greenville, S.C. 4.00 Computer science Swimming Connor Davis Cincinnati Sr. Cincinnati, Ohio 3.96 Neuroscience & psychology Fencing Jonathan Fitzgerald Notre Dame Jr. East Brunswick, N.J. 3.42 Arabic / peace studies Ice Hockey Max French Bentley Sr. W. Kelowna, B.C. 3.83, 3.88 (G) Masters in accountancy Ice Hockey Hampus Gustafsson Merrimack Sr. Ljungby, Sweden 4.00 Business Ice Hockey Kyle Haak U.S. Air Force Academy So. Okemos, Mich. 3.95 Physics Golf Bobby Jacobs Bradley Sr. Valparaiso, Ind. 4.00 Civil engineering Tennis Felipe Jaworski Georgia State Sr. Buenos Aires, Argentina 4.22 Actuarial science Gymnastics Justin Karstadt Minnesota So. Toronto, Ontario 3.82 Kinesiology Water Polo Mihajlo Milicevic USC Jr. Belgrade, Serbia 3.72 Business administration Lacrosse Ben Reeves Yale Jr. Macedon, N.Y. 3.88 Molecular / cellular / dev. biology Ice Hockey Mike Vecchione Union (N.Y.) Sr. Saugus, Mass. 3.42 History Water Polo Luke Weiser Brown Sr. Los Alamitos, Calif. 3.78 Chemistry

CoSIDA Academic All-America® of the Year: Anton McKee, Alabama

1 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team 2 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team 3 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team * = 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team # = 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team

2017 Academic All-America® Division I Women’s At-Large Team

FIRST TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Swimming Anika Apostalon USC Sr. Albuquerque, N.M. 3.92 Psychology Gymnastics Mackenzie Brannan (2) Alabama Jr. Austin, Texas 4.00 Psychology Tennis Hayley Carter (1) North Carolina Sr. Hilton Head, S.C. 3.93 Economics Swimming Madisyn Cox Texas Sr. Lubbock, Texas 3.78 Neuroscience / pre-med Gymnastics Lauren Feely (3) Bowling Green State Sr. Gurnee, Ill. 4.00 Inclusive early childhood ed. Swimming Danielle Galyer (1) Kentucky Sr. Greenville, S.C. 4.00 Political science & psychology Swimming Sarah Gibson (1) Texas A&M Sr. San Antonio, Texas 4.00 Biomedical engineering Rifle Elizabeth Gratz (3) West Virginia Jr. Sigel, Ill. 4.00 Marketing Fencing Lee Kiefer ($) Notre Dame Sr. Versailles, Ky. 3.65 Science pre-professional Golf Leona Maguire Duke Jr. Cavan, Ireland 3.92 Psychology Swimming Simone Manuel Stanford Jr. Sugar Land, Texas 3.48 Communication Gymnastics Alex McMurtry (3) Florida Jr. Midlothian, Va. 4.00 Applied physiology & kinesiology Gymnastics Keely McNeer Alabama Sr. Brandon, Miss. 4.00 Chemical engineering Lacrosse Zoe Stukenberg (3) Maryland Sr. Ellicott City, Md. 4.00 Biological sciences Swimming Chantal Van Landeghem (#) Georgia Sr. Winnipeg, Manitoba 4.00 Psychology

SECOND TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Swimming Brittany Aoyama Boise State Sr. Stockton, Calif. 3.96 Health science Gymnastics Nicole Artz (3) Michigan Sr. Holland, Mich. 3.68 Elementary education Field Hockey Serena Barr Liberty Sr. Lurgan, Northern Ireland 4.00 Public health Ice Hockey Laura Bowman Penn State Sr. Minnetonka, Minn. 3.95 Biochemistry & molecular biology Diving Sarah Braun Clemson Sr. Beaverton, Ore. 4.00 Elementary education Gymnastics Danielle Breen Nebraska Jr. Ames, Iowa 4.00 Accounting Field Hockey Ines Delpech Kent State Jr. Tandil, Argentina 4.00 Sociology Field Hockey Paula Heuser (2) Albany Sr. Mönchengladbach, Germany 3.87 Gen. business (marketing / mgmt.) Field Hockey Angie King Quinnipiac Sr. South Windsor, Conn. 4.00 Communications Tennis Josie Kuhlman Florida Jr. Ponte Vedra, Fla. 4.00 Public relations Rowing Ruby Moore-Bloom Brown Sr. Berkeley, Calif. 3.95 Anthropology / mid-eastern studies Field Hockey Stella Schoen (2) Hofstra Sr. Hamburg, Germany 4.00 Economics Ice Hockey Lee Stecklein (2) Minnesota Sr. Roseville, Minn. 3.88 Entrepreneurial mgmt.. & marketing Water Polo Maggie Steffens Stanford Sr. Danville, Calif. 3.59 Science, technology and society Tennis Aldila Sutjiadi (3) Kentucky Sr. Jakarta, Indonesia 3.94 Mathematical economics Rifle Ginny Thrasher West Virginia So. Springfield, Va. 3.84 Biomedical engineering

THIRD TEAM Sport Name School Yr. Hometown GPA Major Tennis Sarah Candeloro Tennessee-Martin Sr. Dover, Del. 3.95 Accounting / finance Swimming Amelie Currat West Virginia Jr. Dunkerque, France 4.00 Finance Tennis Francesca Di Lorenzo Ohio State So. New Albany, Ohio 3.66 Sport industry Tennis Carolin Drescher Southern Miss Sr. Cologne, Germany 4.00 Kinesiotherapy Swimming Steph Frey North Dakota Sr. Bemidji, Minn. 4.00 Communication science & disorders Skiing Lizzie Gill New Hampshire Sr. Bozeman, Mont. 3.97 International affairs Fencing Eleanor Harvey Ohio State Sr. Hamilton, Ontario 3.76 Psychology Fencing Adrienne Jarocki (2) Harvard Sr. Middle Village, N.Y. 3.80 Human evolutionary biology Field Hockey Natalie Konerth American Sr. Huntingtown, Md. 4.00 Applied mathematics Beach Volleyball Nicolette Martin USC Sr. Anaheim, Calif. 3.70 Fine arts Beach Volleyball Kobi Pekich Long Beach State Sr. Huntington Beach, Calif. 4.00 Liberal studies Swimming Lauren Reedy Missouri Sr. Rochester Hills, Mich. 3.91 Nutritional sciences Tennis Blair Shankle Baylor Sr. Dallas, Texas 3.98 Accounting Ice Hockey Shea Tiley Clarkson Jr. Owen Sound, Ontario 3.88 Biology Swimming Yu Zhou Minnesota Sr. Wuhan, China 3.61 Communication studies

CoSIDA Academic All-America® of the Year: Sarah Gibson, Texas A&M

1 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team 2 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team 3 = 2016 CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team $ = 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America® first team # = 2015 CoSIDA Academic All-America® third team