McGrath honored as Academic All-American®

South Dakota State’s Braxton McGrath was honored Wednesday as a member of the 2025-26 Academic All-America® Team for males’s swimming and diving as chosen by the College Sports Communicators.

A senior from Amana, Iowa, McGrath earned a spot on the second crew after compiling a 3.85 grade-point common whereas majoring in mechanical engineering. Earlier this spring, he was acknowledged on the CSC Academic All-District and Summit League All-Academic squads for the third time in his collegiate profession.

In the pool, McGrath was an all-Summit League performer throughout each the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. He lowered his personal faculty data within the 100 butterfly (47.70 seconds) and 200 butterfly (1:47.98) on the 2026 Summit League championships, inserting second within the 200 butterfly and third within the 100 fly. He additionally was a member of the school-record and third-place 400 medley relay on the 2026 Summit League Championships.

McGrath is the fourth Jackrabbit student-athlete to be honored on College Sports Communicators Academic All-America groups throughout the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months, becoming a member of soccer gamers Kobe Clayborne (first crew) and Max Pelham (second crew), in addition to ladies’s soccer standout Lauren Eckerle (second crew).

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