The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) has selected 728 teams from 450 institutions to the Scholar All-America Team for the Fall 2021 semester. Teams were selected on the basis of their Fall 2021 grade point averages and represent 18,029 student-athletes. Of these teams 519 earned a GPA of 3.30 or above making them eligible for the Intercollegiate Coach Association Coalition All-Sport Academic Standings.
A pair of West Coast teams led the way. Caltech’s women and Pomona-Pitzer’s men’s teams posted GPA’s of 3.97 and 3.87 respectively. The two were a part of fifteen SCIAC schools to earn the honor.
For the second-straight Fall, Harvard’s men led Division I men while Brianne Globig’s Toledo squad topped the women’s list. Both teams posted 3.79 GPAs. Among Division II schools Lees-McRae and Lenoir-Rhine each posted 3.80 GPA’s to lead all Division II women’s teams while Missouri S&T (3.68) led the way among Division II men’s programs. SCAD-Savannah’s women (3.72) and Keiser’s men (3.53) were tops among NAIA schools while Southwestern Oregon led all NJCAA teams with a 3.43 women’s and 3.29 men’s GPA.
Seven teams earned the honor for the first time. These include men’s teams at the University of Nebraska Omaha and Alderson Broaddus. Five women’s teams – Farleigh Dickinson, Mount Saint Mary (NY), Husson, Moravian and Alderson Broaddus – were named to the team for the first time.
Conference-wise sixteen conferences placed 100% of their men’s or women’s teams on the list. They include:
American Athletic Conference (Men and Women)
Big Ten (Men and Women)
Big XII (Men and Women)
Great Midwest Athletic Conference (Men and Women)
Ivy League (Men and Women)
University Athletic Association (Men and Women)
Mid-American Conference (Men)
Atlantic Coast Conference (Women)
Big East Conference (Women)
Centennial Conference (Women)
Colonial Athletic Association (Women)
Conference USA (Women)
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Women)
Missouri Valley Conference (Women)
Mountain West Conference (Women)
Sunshine State Conference (Women)
Founded in 1922, the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA), is the nation’s first organization of college coaches. The mission of the CSCAA is to advance the sport of swimming and diving with coaches at the epicenter of leadership, advocacy, and professional development.