Eight Oles land spots on CSC Academic All-District Swim/Dive Teams

NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups had 4 honorees apiece on the 2025-26 Academic All-District ® Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Teams, as chosen by College Sports Communicators (CSC) and introduced on Tuesday.

Senior Paige Steenblock and sophomores Olivia Small, McKelvey McDaniel, and McKenna Hultgren had been honored from the ladies’s staff, whereas senior Nick Starcevich, junior Jack Homme, senior Beau Giddings, and sophomore Travis Elling had been acknowledged from the boys’s staff.

In order to earn CSC Academic All-District ® honors, student-athletes should maintain a cumulative grade-point common of no less than 3.50 and have to be no less than a sophomore athletically and academically. For swimming and diving, they have to additionally compete in 75 p.c of their staff’s competitions or end within the prime eight in an occasion at their convention meet or take part of their respective nationwide championship.

The CSC Academic All-District ® accolade was the third in a row for Starcevich, whereas Homme and Steenblock collected their second accolades in a row. The different 5 Oles had been first-time honorees.