Three Women’s Swimmers, One Diver Named to College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Crew

Four standouts on the MIAA champion Hope College girls’s swimming and diving workforce have been chosen to the 2025-26 Academic All-District® Women’s Swimming & Diving groups, chosen by College Sports Communicators: senior swimmers Greta Gidley and Laurel Wasiniak, junior diver Laura Zupancic, and sophomore swimmer Emme D’Errico.

The CSC Academic All-America program individually acknowledges males’s swimming & diving Academic All-District honorees for his or her mixed performances within the pool and within the classroom in 4 divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

Academic All-District honorees have been thought of for development to the CSC Academic All-America poll. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees might be introduced on April 29.

To be nominated, student-athletes should be at the very least a sophomore academically and athletically, carry a minimal grade level common of three.50 (on a 4.0 scale), and should compete in 75 p.c of competitions, end top-eight at a convention meet, or take part in a nationwide championship. 

Gidley swam to her first nationwide title within the 200-yard particular person medley on the NCAA Championships and captured 5 All-America accolades. The elementary schooling main from Franklin, Mich. (Mercy), additionally claimed MIAA Most Valuable Women’s Swimmer honors for the second time in three years after recording six gold-medal performances on the MIAA Championship, together with an MIAA-record swim within the 100 breaststroke.

Wasiniak swam on Hope’s nationwide runner-up 200 and 400 freestyle relays en route to 5 All-America performances on the NCAA Championships. The chemical engineering main from Northville, Mich. (Northville),  gained 5 gold medals on the MIAA Championships, together with particular person titles within the 50 and 100 freestyle.

D’Errico, a psychology main from Farmington Hills, Michigan (Farmington), earned All-America accolades within the 400 medley relay on the NCAA Championships and gained two gold medals on the MIAA Championships, together with an MIAA-record swim within the 200 butterfly.

Zupancic, an train main from Fort Collins, Colorado (Liberty Common), competed on the 1- and 3-meter boards on the NCAA Championships and earned All-MIAA distinction.

The Flying Dutch additionally completed ninth on the NCAA Championships as a workforce, marking their third Top 10 end in 4 years.

The Division III CSC Academic All-America program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division III nationwide governance constructions to help CSC with dealing with the awards achievement for the 2025-26 program.