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ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® TEAM S ELECTED BY C O SIDA FOR RELEASE: June 10, 2010 – 10:00 a.m. (EDT) SWIMMERS JUSTINE SCHLUNTZ OF ARIZONA AND CHELSEA HOFF OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE TOP ESPN THE MAGAZINE'S ACADEMIC ALL AMERICA® WOMEN’S AT-LARGE TEAMS TOWSON, Md. – Six-time NCAA champion Justine Schluntz of the University of Arizona and All- American Chelsea Hoff of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse lead the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Schluntz and Hoff, who are both swimmers, were named as the Academic All-America® of the Year Award winners in the University and College Divisions, respectively. The Women’s At-Large program for Academic All-America® includes the sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, tennis and water polo. A Rhodes Scholar who has earned 16 All-American honors in her career for the Wildcats, Schluntz is a graduate student who has a 4.00 G.P.A. while studying Fluid Dynamics. Last year, she graduated from Arizona with her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a perfect 4.00 G.P.A. A summa cum laude graduate, she was honored as the Pacific-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women’s swimming. A native of Albuquerque, N.M., Schluntz is a finalist for the Walter Byers Scholarship. A member of the Wildcats’ record-setting 200-free and 400-medley relay teams, she is part of two relay teams that own NCAA and American records. The Wildcats set the 200-free relay record in 2009 with a time of 1:26.20 while the 400-medley relay team owns the record with a time of 3:28.31. Schluntz has helped Arizona win national titles in the 200-free relay and 400-medley relay the last two seasons. As a sophomore, she was a member of the Wildcats’ first-ever NCAA championship team. She contributed to the Wildcats’ title by swimming on the 800-free relay team which finished first. She also helped the Wildcats win the Pac-10 title in 2008. In 2010, Schluntz helped Arizona finish fourth at the NCAA Championship Meet. A three-time Pac-10 All-Academic team member, she will study fluid dynamics next year at Oxford. Honored as a member of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large College Division first team for the second straight year, Hoff earned six NCAA Division III All-American honors as a senior. An ESS-Fitness and Pre-Physical Therapy major with a 4.00 G.P.A., she finished her career with 18 Division III All-America honors, including seven individual awards. Named as the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Meet for three consecutive years, she won three individual titles and was part of three WIAC-winning relay teams at the 2010 WIAC Championship Meet. A native of Middletown, Wis., she won nine individual WIAC titles and was part of 11 championship relay teams in her career. The NCAA Division III runner-up in the 100- backstroke as a senior, she also finished fifth in the 50-free and the 100-free. The owner of eight school records, she holds three individual WIAC records and swam on four WIAC record-setting relay teams. Named as WIAC Swimmer of the Week five times in her career, she led the Eagles to three conference titles. She was named as the WIAC Scholar-Athlete Award winner as a senior. Schluntz is one of three members of Arizona’s nationally-recognized swimming program who was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. She was joined on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team by two of her teammates, seniors Ana Agy and Annie Chandler. - more - - 2 - Arizona led all schools with three first team selections. Georgia and Stanford each placed two scholar- athletes on the first team. Senior swimmer Lisa Caprioglio and senior gymnast Grace Taylor represented Georgia on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. Stanford placed two swimmers, seniors Elaine Breeden and Julia Smit, on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All- America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. Senior gymnast Kassi Price of Alabama joins Caprioglio and Breeden as the only repeat selections on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. Taylor is one of four scholar-athletes who earned second team honors last year and moved up to the first team this year. Senior Kelsey Cutchins, a field hockey standout at James Madison, senior swimmer Ella Doerge of Texas A&M and senior Christina Dove of Syracuse’s nationally-ranked lacrosse team were also named to the first team for the first time. Vicki Bendus, an ice hockey standout from Mercyhurst, is the lone junior on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. Senior gymnast Daria Bijak of Utah, senior skier Antje Maempel of Denver and senior Caitlyn McFadden of the national champion Maryland lacrosse team complete the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large University Division first team. A Business and Economics major with a 3.79 G.P.A., Agy is also a veteran of Arizona’s 2008 national championship team. A 15-time All-American in her career, she has been a member of four NCAA champion relay teams for the Wildcats. The owner of school records in the 100-backstroke and the 200- backstroke, she is part of Arizona’s 400-medley relay team which broke the American and NCAA records. A native of Park City, Utah, Agy is a three-time member of the Pac-10’s All-Academic team. The 2010 NCAA champion in the 100-breaststroke, Chandler broke the NCAA record with a time of 58.06 seconds. A Journalism major with a 3.50 G.P.A., she is an 18-time All-American who has been part of six national champion relay teams at Arizona. A two-time member of the United States National Team, the San Antonio, Tex. native is part of the 200-medley and 400-medley relay teams that own the American and NCAA records. The winner of the Ruby Award as Arizona’s top female senior athlete, she was a member of Arizona’s national championship team in 2008. An International Business and Marketing major with a 4.00 G.P.A., Caprioglio was a top swimmer in the butterfly for Georgia during her college career. As a senior, she placed third in the 100- and 200-butterfly at the Southeastern Conference meet, helping the Bulldogs win the SEC title. A native of Highlands Ranch, Col., she contributed to Georgia’s fifth place finish at the NCAA Championship Meet with an eighth place showing in the 100-fly. A two-time winner of the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, she also won Georgia’s Joel Eaves and Marilyn Vincent awards as the senior with the top G.P.A. A seven-time All-American gymnast at Georgia, Taylor competed for three national championship teams at Georgia as the Bulldogs won titles in 2007, 2008 and 2009. A Health Promotion major with a 3.97 G.P.A., she was the NCAA champion on the balance beam as a sophomore. The Southeastern Conference champion on the bars and the beam in 2008, she was named as the SEC Scholar-Athlete for gymnastics in 2009. A native of Aiken, S.C., Taylor was the winner of the Ramsey Scholarship at Georgia. A Classics major with a 3.66 G.P.A., Breeden won two individual national championships for Stanford as a senior. A 24-time All-American swimmer, she won her third straight NCAA title in the 200-butterfly and her first championship in the 100-butterfly in 2010. The school record holder in the 100- and 200-butterfly, she owns the American record and the NCAA record in the 200-fly. A five-time Pacific-10 Conference champion, she helped Stanford finish as NCAA runner-up in 2010. A finalist for the Honda Award, the Lexington, Ky. native competed in the 2008 Olympics and was a member of the 400-medley relay team which earned a silver medal. - more - - 3 - Named as the Swimmer of the Meet at the 2010 NCAA Championship, Smit was a 26-time All- American at Stanford who set five school records. The first woman to break the four-minute barrier in the 400-I.M., she owns the NCAA and American records in both the 200-I.M. and the 400-I.M. An Anthropology major with a 3.51 G.P.A., she won six Pac-10 titles in her career. Named as the Pac-10 Swimmer of the Year, she was also honored as the Swimmer of the Meet at the 2010 Pac-10 Meet as she led Stanford to the Pac-10 title. A native of Mt. Sinai, N.Y., she helped Stanford finish as national runner-up in 2010. At the 2008 Olympics, she earned a silver medal in the 400-free relay and a bronze medal in the 800-free relay. A three-time All-American gymnast at Alabama, Price has a double major of Marketing and Advertising and a perfect 4.00 G.P.A.