Seven Wildcats Lauded with CSC Academic All-District Honors

VILLANOVA, Pa. – Seven members of the Villanova Swimming and Diving staff have been named Academic All-District honorees by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) on Tuesday afternoon. Gavin Jones, Justin Nowicki and Zach Sutter represented the boys’s staff on the listing of award recipients whereas Anna Farley, Peri Gaguzis, Meghan Tiernan and Michelle Kasulka have been the ladies’s honorees.
 

The 2025-26 Academic All-District® Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving groups, chosen by College Sports Communicators, acknowledge the nation’s high student-athletes for his or her mixed performances within the pool and within the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program individually acknowledges swimming & diving honorees in 4 divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. Academic All-District® honorees have been thought-about for development to the CSC Academic All-America® poll with Jones, Nowicki, Sutter, Farley, Gaguzis and Tiernan all advancing to the nationwide poll. Women’s Academic All-America honorees might be introduced April 28 with the boys’s listing being unveiled on April 29.
 
Farley is now a two-time CSC Academic All-District Team choice on the heels of a stellar displaying at this 12 months’s BIG EAST Championship, successful 4 gold medals with six All-BIG EAST honors. She was titles within the 200 Fly, 200 Free Relay, 400 Free Relay and 800 Free Relay whereas seeing silver within the 200 IM and bronze within the 100 Fly. She was named to the Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area staff final season and has landed on the BIG EAST All-Academic Team the final two seasons. The junior Biology main has additionally been a four-time point out to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
 
Gaguzis was a three-time All-BIG EAST performer at this 12 months’s championship, successful gold the 400 IM whereas tacking on a silver within the 1650 Free and a bronze within the 500 Free. The junior Biology main who can also be minoring in Italian has been on the BIG EAST All-Academic Team in every of the final two seasons and has been on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll 4 occasions.
 
Jones earns his first CSC nod after garnering All-BIG EAST standing within the 800 Free Relay the place he helped the staff to a bronze medal with a program document time of 6:33.97. He was additionally part of the 400 Free Relay squad that reset a virtually 30-year-old document with a time of two:58.58 on the league championship. The senior pursuing an MBA in Accountancy has been a member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team and has been a six-time Athletic Director’s Honor Roll member.
 
Kasulka lands her first CSC honor after turning into the Women’s Most Outstanding Diver on the BIG EAST Championships in February the place she received the 3-meter and was fourth within the 1-meter. She grew to become simply the second girls’s diver in program historical past to earn the respect. She was a BIG EAST All-Academic Team choice in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and has been a four-time Athletic Director’s Honor Roll recipient.
 
Nowicki is now a two-time CSC honoree after a junior marketing campaign that noticed him earn 4 All-BIG EAST honors. He was the 400 IM champion with a program-record time of three:47.65 and earned silver within the 200 Fly, including bronze medals within the 200 IM and 800 Free Relay. His occasions within the 200 Fly (1:45.03) and 200 IM (1:46.83) have been additionally program bests. Academically, the junior Computer Engineering main and Business minor was a Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Team choice in 2024-25 and a BIG EAST All-Academic Team choice in 2023-24 and 2024-25. He has additionally been a four-time Athletic Director’s Honor Roll choice.
 
Sutter was part of a plethora of program document performances on the BIG EAST Championships whereas having fun with All-BIG EAST standing within the 200 Medley Relay and 400 Medley Relay with silver and bronze medals, respectively. He set this system document within the 50 Free (20.10) and 100 Fly (47.72) on the league meet, additionally pulling down the 100 Free data twice in in the future. His first time of 44.24 beat the earlier document that had stood since 1989 by .5 second earlier than he bested his personal time within the finals with a time of 44.23. During the season, he additionally reset this system document for the 100 IM with a time of fifty.83. The sophomore Biochemistry main and Psychology minor has been a two-time point out on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.
 
This is the second 12 months in a row that Tiernan has earned Academic All-District standing. The junior Biology main was a BIG EAST Champion within the 200 IM and earned All-BIG EAST standing within the 400 IM and 200 Fly, each with silver medals. She was a member of the BIG EAST All-Academic Team in 2023-24 and 2024-25 and was a CSCAA Second Team Scholar All-American in 2023-24.