4 From Swimming & Diving Named to A-10 All-Academic Team

WASHINGTON – The Atlantic 10 Conference named 4 Revolutionaries to the 2026 A-10 Swimming & Diving All-Academic Teams on Friday. Olivia Paquette and Ava Topolewski have been named on the ladies’s workforce, whereas Ben Sosnowski and Michael Wood have been named on the lads’s workforce. 

To be nominated for the All-Academic Team, student-athletes should carry a 3.0 GPA or increased and be a major contributor to the workforce. All 4 of GW’s All-Academic student-athletes carry a 3.60 GPA or increased, and every secured at the very least one medal ultimately week’s A-10 Championships.

Topolewski headlined her meet by securing an computerized qualification to the NCAA Championships from her gold-medal swim within the 1,650-yard freestyle (16:23.28). She secured gold within the mile for the fourth-consecutive 12 months as she clinched her second-career journey to the nationwide meet. Topolewski scored a girls’s team-high 51 factors, as she additionally collected a silver medal within the 500-yard freestyle (4:45.78) and completed fifth within the 200-yard freestyle (1:50.25). It’s Topolewski’s first A-10 All-Academic award.

Paquette was GW’s prime girls’s diver at A-10s as she claimed a silver medal within the 3-meter (269.75) and a bronze within the 1-meter (277.40) on her approach to being named to her third-straight A-10 All-Academic Team. The senior captured medals in seven of a complete of eight occasions that she’s competed in all through her profession, and can proceed her closing season on each the 1-meter and 3-meter boards at NCAA Diving Zone A.

Wood, who can be persevering with his season within the 1-meter and 3-meter occasions at NCAA Diving Zone A, earned bronze medals in each the 1-meter (314.50) and 3-meter (333.05) occasions at A-10s as GW’s prime males’s diver. Wood now has three profession medals on the A-10 Championships, and it’s his first time being named to the A-10 All-Academic Team. Wood was additionally named to the Allstate NACDA Good Works Team this previous winter for his contributions in the neighborhood. 

Sosnowski gained the 200-yard breaststroke (1:57.02) as he scored 49 factors with A-final appearances in all three occasions he appeared in. Along with the 200 breaststroke, Sosnowski additionally completed in fourth place (3:54.71) and fifth place within the 200-yard IM (1:47.34). This is the second-straight 12 months that Sosnowski has been named to the A-10 All-Academic Team.