Claire Curzan Earns NCAA Division I Academic All-American Team Member of the Year

The College Sports Communicators released the Academic All-America lists earlier this week for girls’s school swimming throughout all three NCAA Divisions and NAIA.

At the highest of the record had been the 4 Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, one from every of the 4 classes.

Division I

UVA junior Claire Curzan earned the ladies’s Division I title. She is an Applied Statistics main, and has a 3.87 GPA. At the 2026 NCAA Championships, she earned the nationwide titles within the 100 and 200 backstroke occasions and took part in 4 of Virginia’s nationwide title relays, serving to lead this system to their sixth straight total staff title.

This is the 2nd yr in a row the Division I award has gone to a UVA swimmer after Gretchen Walsh earned the glory following the 2024-2025 season. It additionally marks Curzan’s second yr on the record.

Seven members of the Division I staff have excellent 4.0 GPAs:

• Erin Gemmell: University of Texas — Junior, Plan II Honors
• Emily Jones: University of Alabama — Senior, Sport Management
• Brady Kendall: University of Michigan — Senior, Pharmacy
• Letitia Sim: University of Michigan — Senior, Applied Exercise Science
• Ela Freiman: San Jose State University — Grad Student, Biomedical Engineering
• Emily Lundgren: Washington State University — Senior, Digital Technology & Culture
• Reese Cole: Rice University — Sophomore, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology & Neuroscience

• (1) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (2) = 2nd staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (3) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (4) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24

Division II

The Division II award went to Findlay senior Emily Mears-Bentley. She has a 3.90 GPA in Psychology, and this marks her third yr on the record after she was a second staff choice in 2024-2025 and a third-team choice in 2023-2024.

At the NCAA Division II Championships, she gained the ladies’s 200 fly to turn out to be the primary feminine Findlay swimmer in historical past to earn a title and the fourth Findlay swimmer whole. During the meet, she additionally picked up 2nd-place finishers within the 100 free and 100 fly and completed fifth within the 200 IM.

Five of the 24 athletes chosen to the Division II staff have an ideal 4.0:

• Marit Rechmann: Catawba College — Senior, Biology
• Fiona Byrne: Catawba College — Junior, Biology & Psychology
• Joslyn Jurski: Pennsylvania Western University, Clarion — Senior, Management
• Adriana Mieses-Sanchez: University of West Florida — Senior, Biology
• Rachel Stanchek: Ashland University — Junior, Forensic Biology

 

• (1) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (2) = 2nd staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (3) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (4) = 2nd staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24
• (5) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24

Division III

MIT senior Annika Naveen picked up the Division III honor for Team Member of the Year with an ideal 4.00 GPA in Bioengineering. She has been on the Academic All-American staff for 3 years in a row, incomes second-team spots in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.

At this yr’s NCAA Division III Championships, she certified for the finals in two occasions, ending 14th in each the 50 free and 100 free. At the NEWMAC Conference Championships, she earned the person title within the 50 freestyle, and swam on 5 MIT successful relays to assist the staff earn the general title.

There are solely three Division III athletes, together with Naveen, who boast a 4.0 GPA:

• Claire Kozma: Case Western Reserve University — Senior, Human Nutrition
• Annika Naveen: MIT — Senior, Bioengineering
• Makenna Mincey: Baldwin Wallace University — Mathematics and Accounting

• (1) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (2) = 2nd staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (3) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (4) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24
• (5) = 2nd staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24
• (6) = third staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24

NAIA

Finally, SCAD Savannah senior Nikki Hahn was the NAIA honoree. Hahn is a User Experience Design main with a 4.0 GPA, and that is her third yr in a row incomes Academic All-American first staff honors.

At the 2026 NAIA Championships, she gained the general title within the 100 breast and 200 breast. She additionally participated within the SCAD runner-up 200 medley and 400 medley relays and completed eighth within the 200 IM.

Hahn was one in every of three excellent 4.0 members from NAIA faculties on the Academic All-American List:

• Nikki Hahn: SCAD Savannah — Senior, User Experience Design
• Ugne Takuseviciute: University of the Cumberlands — Sophomore, Business Administration
• Sara Zoellner: University of the Cumberlands — Junior, Biology

• (1) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2024-25
• (2) = 1st staff Academic All-America® in 2023-24