Kozma Named to CSC Academic All-America First Team

Senior Claire Kozma of the Case Western Reserve University ladies’s swimming and diving workforce was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America First Team, the group introduced on Tuesday.

Kozma earned the third Academic All-America honor of her profession after receiving Third Team accolades as a sophomore and Second Team recognition final yr. Her three honors are probably the most ever for any member of the CWRU ladies’s swimming and diving workforce. She can be one among simply 11 Spartans throughout all sports activities to obtain no less than three honors from the CSC.

Kozma earned the ninth honor within the historical past of the CWRU ladies’s swimming and diving program and is joined by Abigail Wilkov (2024, 2025) and Sharon Sanborn (1997, 1998) as a number of time honorees from the workforce. A complete of 127 CWRU student-athletes from all varsity groups have garnered 188 Academic All-America honors because the program’s inception.

Kozma completed her profession because the third-most embellished swimmer in CWRU historical past, totaling 11 All-America honors throughout 4 seasons, together with one First Team choice. This season, she positioned nationally within the prime 16 in three occasions, ending ninth within the 200 Free, thirteenth within the 200 Fly, and thirteenth within the 200 Free Relay. During the marketing campaign, Kozma set college data within the 100 Free (50.48 seconds), 200 Fly (2:02.66), and 400 Free Relay (3:25.46). She certified for the NCAA Championships in all 4 of her seasons as a Spartan and is a three-time All-University Athletic Association honoree with a trio of third-place finishes within the 200 Free. In addition to the college data, Kozma recorded the second-best time in program historical past within the 200 Free and fourth-fastest time within the 50 Free and 500 Free this yr. Kozma has a cumulative 4.000 GPA as a human diet main.

Student-athletes who maintained no less than a 3.50 cumulative grade level common as a sophomore academically and athletically and have competed in 75 % of a workforce’s competitions or completed within the prime eight in an occasion at a convention meet or certified for the nationwide championship meet to be eligible for the award. The CSC chosen eight members for its First Team, 9 members for its Second Team, and 7 members for its Third Team for a complete of 24 Academic All-Americans out of the 679 student-athletes chosen to the Academic All-District Team.

The 2025-26 Academic All-District Women’s Swimming and Diving Team, chosen by CSC, acknowledges the nation’s prime student-athletes for his or her mixed performances within the pool and within the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America program individually acknowledges ladies’s swimming and diving honorees in 4 divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, and NAIA.

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

Overall, the Spartan ladies’s swimming and diving workforce tied for twenty third within the workforce standings with 21.0 factors, inserting within the prime 25 for the third consecutive yr and scoring on the nationwide championship for the seventh time in a row.