Pirates Earn CSCAA Scholar All-America Honors
8/11/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
Continuing a tradition of academic success that spans over a decade, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced that the Seton Hall men's and women's swimming & diving squads earned Scholar All-American honors for Spring 2015.
The Team Scholar All American award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams, who have achieved a team grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher. The award is presented twice annually, once in the fall and once in the spring.
No strangers to academic success, the award is the latest in what has been a steady precession of Scholar All-America awards for the Pirates. Seton Hall has now received the honor in all 15 years under head coach Ron Farina.
Both the Seton Hall men and women rank among the top-70 programs nationally with the women boasting the third-best GPA in the BIG EAST at 3.43 and the men sitting fourth in the league at a collective 3.10.
The recognition of their scholastic achievement comes on the heels of a BIG EAST Championship in which the Pirates matched the school record set the previous year with a total of seven conference titles.
Divers Ben Mitchell and Gabby Signorelli (Massapequa, N.Y.) each swept a pair of championships and were named Most Outstanding Divers of the meet for the second-straight season while three men's swimmers in JC Logan and rising sophomores Noah Yanchulis (Arnold, Md.) and Matt Zebrowski (Sayreville, N.J.) added gold medal-winning performances as well.
Founded in 1922, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) - the oldest organization of college coaches in America -is a professional organization of college swimming and diving coaches dedicated to serving and providing leadership for the advancement of the sport of swimming & diving at the collegiate level.
