Vanderbilt Swimming | Four Dores Make Academic All-District Staff

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Four members of the Vanderbilt swimming program have been named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® staff together with one repeat honoree. Emily Constable, Melissa Cowen, Kate Heintz and Aubrey Hull have been acknowledged for his or her work within the classroom and the pool, with Heintz incomes the excellence for the second time in as many seasons.

To be named Academic All-District®, people are required to be at the least a sophomore each academically and athletically, swim in 75 % of the staff’s competitions or take part in a nationwide championship, and carry a minimal 3.50 cumulative grade level common (on a 4.0 scale).

A sophomore from Westfield, New Jersey, Constable met the CSCAA National Invitational Championship B normal in three occasions this season—the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke—whereas rating third on the squad within the 100 and 200 breast. She recorded her finest mark of the marketing campaign within the 100 freestyle and 200 breast on the SEC Championships in February, and likewise superior to the C Final of the 100 and 200 breast at Houston’s Phill Hansel Invitational within the fall. Constable is majoring in human & organizational improvement and made the 2024-25 First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll.

In her first season as a Commodore, Cowen posted marks which might be among the many prime 10 in program historical past within the 50 freestyle and 100 and 200 breast together with rating second within the latter occasion. One of two Vandy swimmers to compete on the CSCAA NIC—highlighted by a third-place end within the 200 breast A Final—she simply missed advancing to finals within the self-discipline on the SEC Championships after putting twenty sixth general. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, the psychology main earned CSCAA Scholar All-American honors as a freshman at Florida in 2023-24.

Heintz made the CSCAA NIC B minimize within the 100 and 200 fly this winter, along with her finest time within the former occasion main the Dores whereas additionally transferring her into eighth place all-time at Vandy; she was among the many prime 5 on the staff within the 200 fly, 100 free and 500 freestyle as effectively. The junior was thirty first general within the 200 fly on the SEC Championships, the place she additionally posted a career-low time to tempo the Commodores within the 100 fly. A resident of Southlake, Texas, she has been on the SEC Academic Honor Roll every of the final two years and is majoring in each engineering science and communication of science & know-how.

The faculty report holder within the 100 and 200 backstroke, Hull set each requirements final month on the CSCAA NIC Championship the place she completed third within the A Final of the previous and gained the B Final of the latter. Not solely did the Charlotte, North Carolina, native lead Vanderbilt in every self-discipline, together with putting twenty eighth within the 100 again and thirty fifth within the 200 again at this season’s SEC Championships, she had the staff’s quickest time within the 100 free additionally. The sophomore, who’s a human & organizational improvement main, was named to the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll following the conclusion of the 2024-25 season.