Three girls swimmers, workforce honored for educational achievement

Three Hamilton College girls’s swimmers earned College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team honors for the 2024-25 season on Thursday, July 10 when the group launched its listing.
 
Ashlyn Blessey ’26 (Fairfield, Conn./Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall), Jade Matthias ’26 (Reading, Pa./Mercersburg Academy) and Carolyn Miner ’27 (Manchester, Conn./Manchester HS) collected first workforce awards. To qualify for first workforce Scholar All-America, student-athletes should have earned a grade level common of three.5 or higher and took part of their nationwide championship.
 
Blessey, Matthias and Miner certified for the 2025 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships as a part of a 200-yard freestyle relay. They additionally competed within the 400 free relay on the championships. Matthias has been a scholar all-American all three years and Blessey beforehand was honored in 2023.
 
The Continentals had been acknowledged as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team for the 2025 spring semester. Teams had been required to realize a grade level common of three.00 or higher in the course of the semester with the intention to earn the celebrated honor. The Hamilton girls posted a 3.70 GPA and picked up the award for the eighth straight semester underneath Head Coach John Geissinger.