Scholar All-America

The Scholar All-America recognition celebrates student-athletes in swimming and diving who excel both academically and athletically.

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Eligibility

Team Awards (Spring & Fall Semesters)

The CSCAA recognizes Scholar All-America Teams for both the Fall and Winter Semesters. In order to be recognized, teams must:

Be current CSCAA members;
Have achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or higher;
Be nominated by a current CSCAA member or their designee by entry deadline.

Calculating Team GPA

Team GPA calculations must include any student-athlete who competed at any time during the current season.
Team GPA calculations shall not include redshirts.
Use each student-athlete’s semester/quarter GPA (do not use cumulative GPAs).
Add each student-athlete’s GPA and divide by number of student-athletes

Individual Awards (Spring Semester Only)

Individual Scholar All-America is only awarded in the Spring and presented to college and university swimmers and divers, who have achieved both academic and athletic excellence over the semester/quarter coinciding with the year of their respective national championships.

Academic Criteria

Student must have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.50 or higher during the academic year or semester coinciding with their national championship. Cumulative GPAs ARE NOT accepted.
Student must be in good standing with their team and institution throughout the entire season;
Student must be in good standing with their team and institution throughout the entire season;
Student must be nominated by a current CSCAA member or their designee by the entry deadline.

Athletic Criteria

First Team:

Must have participated at respective national championship.

Second Team:

Division I: Must achieve an NIC “A” standard in one of the events contested at the NCAA Championship (these times are determined using the rolling three-year average of the 125th-fastest time in NCAA Championship events; this metric was formerly used as the Division I NCAA “B” qualifying standard) or an NCAA Zone qualification score.
50 butterfly, 50 backstroke, 50 breaststroke and 100 IM are not eligible for CSCAA Scholar All America.
Times can be found on the CSCAA National Invitational Webpage.
Division II, Division III and NAIA: Must achieve an individual “B” time standard or an NCAA Zone qualification score.
Individuals achieving “B” standards as a part of a relay are not eligible.
Divers must achieve a Zone qualifying score, but are not required to compete at their respective NCAA diving qualification meet.

Additional Information

Fall Nominations Due by January 16, 2026 Late Nominations are not accepted.

Member coaches are eligible for two free certificates for each individual award-winner. These can be ordered here.