Leo Nolles earns CSC Academic All-America Honors

MARQUETTE, Mich. — Senior Leo Nolles add’s a College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Honor to cap off his illustrious profession at Northern Michigan University. 

A senior from Maldonado, Uruguay, Nolles earns his second straight CSC Academic All-America honor to complete his profession at NMU, incomes a 3.74 GPA in Athletic Coaching. The 2024 Paris Olympian was a 7x All-American at this 12 months’s NCAA Championships and earned two golds and 5 medals on the GLIAC Championships. Leo was additionally honored together with his second GLIAC Commissioner’s Award, the convention’s most prestigious award for each lecturers and athletics, in addition to the GLIAC’s Pat Riempa Postgraduate Scholarship, which awards one male and one feminine from the GLIAC with $5,000 in support to the graduate faculty of their selection.

Nolles is likely one of the most embellished student-athletes to undergo the NMU swim and dive program. In his 4 seasons with Northern Michigan, the Maldonado, Uruguay native represented his nation within the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, is a 21x All-American, has earned three medals on the NCAA Championships, earned 19 GLIAC Championship medals with eight golds, and has each damaged and is at present holding quite a few NMU faculty and pool data.

Along together with his dedication within the pool and coaching, Leo is devoted to giving again to the group, and reveals up for the Marquette group in some ways: he repeatedly volunteers with the Special Olympics, the place he teaches and coaches specifically abled athletes in swimming and resistance coaching, is engaged with Northern Center for Lifelong Learning the place he shares his experiences as an Olympic athlete with actively engaged older adults, visits the Beacon House of Marquette to cook dinner and socialize with households in troublesome conditions, volunteers on the Marquette Marathon with support stations, volunteers to work at NMU sporting occasions, and helped rake leaves at Marquette Elementary School together with his teammates. 

About the CSC Academic All-America Program

Academic All-American is a title reserved for school student-athletes who carry out at an elite stage of their chosen sport and within the classroom. The all-time record of 44,000+ Academic All-Americans consists of main sports activities stars and a few of the world’s most achieved people in medication, enterprise, science and the humanities. Established in 1952 and chosen by College Sports Communicators (CSC), Academic All-America is the longest operating and premier award for athletic and educational success throughout championship faculty sports activities in any respect NCAA ranges, the NAIA, two-year faculties and Canadian establishments.

NMU Swim and Dive CSC Academic Honors

 

NMU Swim and Dive CSC Academic All-America Honors