FOUR JACKS NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS

Both of the Jackrabbits’ representatives on the lads’s workforce had been repeat picks as Braxton McGrath was chosen to the squad for the third season in a row and Kolden Kringen earned a spot for the second consecutive season.

A senior from Amana, Iowa, McGrath has compiled a 3.85 grade-point common as a mechanical engineering main. He holds faculty data in each the 100- and 200-yard butterfly and earned particular person all-league honors in each occasions on the 2026 Summit League Championships with respective third and second-place finishes. McGrath additionally was a member of the Jackrabbits’ school-record 400 medley relay, which positioned third at this 12 months’s league meet.

Kringen, a junior from Williston, North Dakota, holds an ideal 4.0 GPA as a double main in psychology and aviation. He was a B finalist in three particular person occasions on the 2026 Summit League Championships, inserting ninth within the 400 particular person medley, 14^th within the 500 freestyle and 15^th within the 200 butterfly.

In the ladies’s division, Jenna Currier obtained her third choice to the tutorial all-league workforce and Annabelle Gifford was honored for the primary time.

A senior from Denison, Iowa, Currier has compiled a 3.97 GPA as a arithmetic and knowledge science main. She set a college document within the 100-yard butterfly en path to all-Summit League honors with a runner-up exhibiting on the league championships. Currier additionally was a part of the Jackrabbits’ record-setting 400 freestyle relay and added particular person finishes of fourth within the 50 freestyle and fifth within the 100 freestyle on the league meet.

Gifford, a junior from St. Paul, Minnesota, competed within the diving occasions for the Jackrabbits and has turned in a 3.93 GPA as a enterprise economics main.

Selections to the 15-member squads are decided by a vote performed among the many league’s sports activities info administrators and school athletics representatives. Nominees should carry not less than a 3.3 cumulative grade-point common, be not less than a sophomore in tutorial and athletic standing, and be a key contributor to his or her workforce.

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