ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® TEAM S ELECTED BY C O SIDA For Release: Wednesday, June 17 – 12 noon ET DENISON’S BEBE WANG AND KT KUSTRITZ HEADLINE 2020 ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION III AT-LARGE TEAMS AUSTIN, Texas – Denison University senior swimmers Bebe Wang and KT Kustritz lead the 2019-20 Academic All-America® Division III At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). A physics major with a 3.91 grade-point average from Naperville, Illinois, Wang was named the Academic All-America® Men’s Team Member of the Year for the second consecutive season. The Academic All-America® Women’s Team Member of the Year, Kustritz is a health, exercise and sport studies major with a 3.74 G.P.A. from St. Paul, Minn. Note: Despite the cancellation of spring competition during COVID-19, CoSIDA continued its sponsorship of the Academic All- America® awards program. Student-athletes were selected based on career statistics. Wang is a five-time national champion and 15-time All-American, and earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in May. He entered this year's NCAA Championships with the nation's fastest time in the 200-yard individual medley and the third-fastest time in the 200-yard freestyle. A three-time College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American, Wang received the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Male Scholar-Athlete Award from Denison in April. A second-team Academic All-America® selection in 2019 and 2018, Kustritz is a five-time national champion and 27-time All- American. She is the national record-holder in the 100-yard breaststroke and is a 22-time NCAC champion. Kustritz qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 100-yard breaststroke and competed in the 2019 Phillips 66 National Championships. She owns seven Denison varsity records and is also a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American. She was named the 2017 NCAC Newcomer of the Year and the 2019 NCAC Swimmer of the Year. Among the 90 student-athletes selected to the Academic All-America® Division III At-Large teams, 11 men and 12 women carry a 4.0 grade-point average. The 15 members of the men’s at-large first team carry an average G.P.A. of 3.92, while the 15 members of the women’s at-large team carry a 3.90 average G.P.A. Sixteen men and 12 women are repeat Academic All-America® selections, including five three-time honorees. On the men’s side, swimmer Bouke Edskes of MIT and tennis student-athlete Bernardo Neves of Washington University in St. Louis are now three- time Academic All-America® first-team selections. On the women’s first team, swimmer Anne Shirley Dassow of Grove City and golfer Anna Foley of DePauw joined Kustritz as three-time honorees. Both were on the 2019 second team, though Dassow made the 2018 first team and Foley received second-team distinction as a sophomore. Other men’s student-athletes to repeat as CoSIDA Academic All-America® honorees: Wang and fellow first-teamers Gianluca Baggetta (Utica, ice hockey) and Tyler Radtke (St. Olaf, skiing) repeated their first-team honors; first-teamers Walker Anderson (Hobart, tennis), Justin Britton (Carnegie Mellon, swimming), Trevor Maxfield (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, swimming) and Michael O’Neil (Gustavus Adolphus, tennis) were second-team honorees last year; first-teamers Drake Horton (Denison, swimming) and David Lehman (Stevens Institute of Technology, volleyball) achieved third-team distinction in 2019; first-teamer Victor Gliva (Augsburg, wrestling) was a first-team selection in 2018; second-teamer Brian Peccie (Washington and Lee, golf) was a first-team honoree last year; second-teamer Brendan Markovic (Randolph-Macon, lacrosse) moved up from the third-team Denison’s Wang and Kustritz Headline 2020 Academic All-America® Division III At-Large Teams – Page 2 last year; second-teamer Connor Rodericks (Connecticut College, ice hockey) was a third-team honoree in 2018; and Tim Sestak (Wesleyan, ice hockey) repeated last year’s third-team honor. Other women’s student-athletes to repeat as Academic All-America® honorees include: first-teamers Mikayla Bisignani (Johns Hopkins, swimming), Emma Schulz (SUNY Cortland, gymnastics) and Deborah Wen (MIT, swimming) repeated their first-team honors; first-teamer Honore Collins (New York University, swimming) was a second-team selection last year; first-teamers Nicole Andriani (Montclair State, field hockey), Nicole Tan (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, tennis) and Natalie Zaravella (Denison, swimming) were third-team honorees last year; and second-teamers Kristin Dantzler (Randolph-Macon, tennis) and Emily Hageboeck (Washington and Lee, swimming) achieved third-team distinction a year ago. The Division III Academic All-America® program is financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2019-20 Division III Academic All-America® teams. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University | Academic All-America® Co-Director for Publicity [email protected] | (701) 231-8332 Ryan Klinkner, Saint John’s University (Minn.) | Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity [email protected] | (320) 363-3127 2019-20 Academic All-America® Men’s At-Large Team Division III FIRST TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Tennis Walker Anderson (2) Hobart College Jr. 4.00 History / Psychology Ice Hockey Tom Aubrun Norwich University Sr. 3.79 Business Management Ice Hockey Gianluca Baggetta (1) Utica College Gr. 3.99/3.97 Fraud & Financial Crime Investigation Swimming Justin Britton (2) Carnegie Mellon University Jr. 4.00 Information Systems Swimming Bouke Edskes (*) MIT Sr. 3.84 Mechanical Engineering Wrestling David Flynn Augsburg University Sr. 3.84 Management Wrestling Victor Gliva (#) Augsburg University Sr. 4.00 Accounting Swimming Drake Horton (3) Denison University Jr. 3.80 Data Analytics Volleyball David Lehman (3) Stevens Institute of Technology Sr. 3.74 Computer Engineering Swimming Trevor Maxfield (2) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Gr. 4.00/4.00 Applied Mathematics Tennis Bernardo Neves (*) Washington University in St. Louis Sr. 3.99 Mechanical Engineering Tennis Michael O'Neil (2) Gustavus Adolphus College Sr. 4.00 Philosophy / Economics Skiing Tyler Radtke (1) St. Olaf College Sr. 4.00 Economics Swimming Sam Ubellacker MIT Sr. 3.92 Electrical Engineering / Computer Science Swimming Bebe Wang (1) Denison University Sr. 3.91 Physics SECOND TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Fencing Chris Armstrong Brandeis University Sr. 3.98 Chemistry / Physics Wrestling Stanley Bleich Baldwin Wallace University Jr. 3.85 Religion Ice Hockey Ryan Bloom University of New England Sr. 3.95 Neuroscience Golf Brett Buckingham Augsburg University Sr. 4.00 Marketing / Management Skiing MacIntyre Henderson Babson College Sr. 3.93 Finance & Real Estate Golf Harrison Hicks University of Texas at Dallas Sr. 4.00 Neuroscience Water Polo Clyde Huibregtse MIT Sr. 3.92 Mathematics for Computer Science / Physics Volleyball Evan Lindley New York University Sr. 3.94 Chemistry Swimming Jamie Lovette Williams College Jr. 3.83 Computer Science / Mathematics Lacrosse Brendan Markovic (3) Randolph-Macon College Sr. 4.00 Business Finance Golf Brian Peccie (1) Washington and Lee University Sr. 3.88 Economics / Mathematics Skiing Paul Rechberger Castleton University Jr. 4.00 Business Administration Ice Hockey Connor Rodericks (^) Connecticut College Sr. 3.93 Economics Golf Daniel Settecerri Hope College Sr. 3.99 Biology Tennis Boris Sorkin Tufts University Jr. 3.89 Biochemistry Golf Rob Wuethrich Illinois Wesleyan University Jr. 3.83 Accounting THIRD TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Tennis Matthew Chen Case Western Reserve University Jr. 3.88 Nutritional Biochemistry & Metabolism Ice Hockey Gabriel Chicoine Norwich University Jr. 3.97 Mechanical Engineering Swimming Giorgio DelGrosso New York University Sr. 3.66 Individualized Study Tennis Vishnu Joshi Johns Hopkins University Jr. 3.89 Computer Engineering / Computer Science Ice Hockey Conlan Keenan SUNY Geneseo Sr. 3.51 Communication Wrestling Tyler Marsh Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sr. 3.93 Mechanical Engineering Lacrosse Peter Pittroff Denison University Sr. 3.80 Communication Tennis Tyler Raclin University of Chicago Sr. 3.71 Computer Science Lacrosse Dylan Rice Christopher Newport University Jr. 3.98 Finance Water Polo Zack Rossman Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Sr. 3.85 Computer Science Wrestling Ben Sarasin University of Chicago So. 3.95 Economics Lacrosse Max Scott Oberlin College Sr. 4.00 Biology Ice Hockey Tim Sestak (3) Wesleyan University Sr. 3.81 Molecular Biology / Biochemistry Tennis Nate Wang Washington & Jefferson College Jr. 3.88 Biochemistry Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year: Bebe Wang, Denison University (1) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® first-team selection in 2019 (2) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® second-team selection in 2019 (3) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® third-team selection in 2019 (#) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® first-team selection in 2018 (^) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® third-team selection in 2018 (*) – CoSIDA Academic All-America® first-team selection in 2019 and 2018 2019-20 Academic All-America® Women’s At-Large Team Division III FIRST TEAM Sport Name School Yr. GPA Major Field Hockey Nicole Andriani (3) Montclair State University Sr. 3.98 Business Management / Administration Lacrosse Liza Barr Gettysburg College Sr. 3.90 Organization & Management Studies Swimming Mikayla Bisignani (1) Johns Hopkins University Jr. 3.98 Molecular & Cellular Biology / Psychology Fencing Erin Chen Johns Hopkins University Sr. 3.90 Molecular & Cellular Biology Swimming Honore Collins (2) New York University Sr. 3.55 Business Swimming Anne Shirley Dassow (#) Grove City College Sr. 3.98 Biology Golf Anna Foley (^) DePauw University Sr. 4.00 Biochemistry Field Hockey Arielle Johnston Salisbury University Sr. 4.00 Community Health Swimming KT Kustritz (^) Denison University Sr. 3.74 Health, Exercise & Sport Studies Ice Hockey Emily Lambert Norwich University Sr. 4.00 International Business / Spanish Lax, Fld. Hky. Erin Nicholas Middlebury College Jr. 3.80 Molecular Biology / Biochemistry Gymnastics Emma Schulz (1) SUNY Cortland Jr.