USA Swimming Releases List of 2021-22 Scholastic All-Americans
USA Swimming on Thursday released the list of 2021-22 Scholastic All-Americans for the high school academic year.
The list honors 1,281 athletes (686 boys and 595 girls) in grades nine through 12. Honorees must maintain a minimum 3.5 grade point average from Sept. 1, 2021-Aug. 31, 2022, and also meet competition criteria (for pool swimmers, it’s a Winter Junior Nationals qualifying time in 2022, with different thresholds for open water and for swimmers with disabilities).
The full list of 2021-22 Scholastic All-Americans is available here.
Among the athletes to attain perfect scores – i.e. an event championship and a 4.0 GPA – are Baylor Nelson and Olympian Katie Grimes. Grimes, a Las Vegas native, won the 10-kilometer swim at the U.S. Open Water Championships (in addition to a pair of silver medals in the pool at the 2022 FINA World Championships). Nelson, a native of Huntersville, N.C., claimed the 200 individual medley at the 2021 U.S. Open.
Nelson’s North Carolina Swimming leads the way in terms of total honorees, with 99 athletes. It also includes both of the clubs supplying the most athletes to the list, SwimMAC Carolina (28 athletes) and TAC Titans (24). Southern California Swimming is second with 79 honorees.
The list includes five open-water athletes and 11 athletes with disabilities, who are included in the program for just the second time.
All athletes honored will receive a commemorative bag tag and certificates. The 114 seniors who’ve attained three or four years on the list will receive a special gift, to be shipped in the fall.
Some statistics from the 2021-22 Scholastic All-Americans:
Athletes by zone
- Southern: 397
- Eastern: 314
- Western: 301
- Central: 268
Athletes by grade
- 9th: 116
- 10th: 331
- 11th: 468
- 12th: 316
Top LSCs
- North Carolina Swimming: 99
- Southern California Swimming: 79
- Florida Swimming: 72
- Pacific Swimming: 57
- Middle Atlantic Swimming: 51
- Virginia Swimming: 51
Top Clubs
- SwimMAC Carolina: 28
- TAC Titans: 24
- Nation’s Capital Swim Club: 18
- Bolles School Sharks: 17
- Aquajets Swim Team: 16
- NOVA of Virginia Aquatics, Inc.: 16
- Rockville Montgomery Swim Club: 16
The original USA Swimming release omitted Erin Gemmell as having a perfect score. They have corrected their graphic on NextGen, apparently too late for this article.