Days after helping the Kenyon College Owls take the runner-up position at the 2023 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championship, three members of the squad were named to the Academic All-America Team, as selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC).
Kenyon’s honorees included seniors Drew Albrecht and Spencer Pruett, who were among the 12 first-team selections, and junior Noah Hargrove, who was selected to the eight-member third team.
To be eligible for the CSC national award, a student-athlete had to be a key contributor who participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s meets. The student-athlete had to be on the team’s active roster for at least two years and, most importantly, own a 3.50 cumulative grade point average. Each Academic All-American also needed to first be selected as a CSC Academic All-District award winner. All NCAA Division III institutions were allotted four nominations throughout the process.
Albrecht, a diver, is now a two-time winner of the award after gaining second-team accolades in the 2021-22 season. He’s a molecular biology major that is a three-time College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America and will soon be a three-time member of the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Academic Honor Roll. In the diving well, he was a two-time NCAA Championship qualifier with four top-20 finishes at the national meet. In the 2019-20 season, Albrecht was named the NCAC Diver of the Year.
Pruett is also a two-time qualifier for the national meet. A backstroke specialist, he posted three top-10 finishes a season ago and then followed up this past weekend with a seventh-place showing in the 200-yard backstroke and 15th-place swim in the 100-yard backstroke. Additionally, he was the NCAC 200-yard backstroke champion in 2022. A physics major, Pruett is a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and, like Albrecht, will soon make his third appearance on the NCAC’s Academic Honor Roll.
Hargrove, a double major in economics and math, made the 2021-22 NCAC Academic Honor Roll and was also a 2021-22 CSCAA Scholar All-American. In the water, he just completed a break-out junior campaign, logging four top-15 finishes at the NCAA Championship. He was ninth in the 400-yard individual medley, 12th in the 200-yard butterfly, 13th in the 200-yard individual medley, and he swam a leg on Kenyon’s sixth-place 800-yard freestyle relay team.
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