Jann and Jensen of Gardner-Net Swimming Named 2025-26 George A. Christenberry Award Winners

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Per launch from the league workplace, Sara-Michael Jann and Jacob Jensen of the Gardner-Webb swimming crew have been named as recipients of the Big South Conference George A. Christenberry Award for the 2025-26 educational yr

This educational yr, a league-record 14 student-athletes have been awarded for tutorial excellence. The George A. Christenberry Award is given to a graduating female and male student-athlete who attain the best GPA throughout their undergraduate collegiate careers. It is the 14th consecutive yr at the least SIX student-athletes have been honored, and the full surpasses the report variety of 12 recipients achieved in 2019-20 and 2024-25

Big South member establishments nominate one male and one feminine student-athlete for the annual Christenberry Award, or a number of student-athletes that tie for the best GPA on their respective campus. The honor is called for George A. Christenberry, the previous President of Augusta College (now Augusta University) and one of many founders of the Big South Conference.  A member of the Big South Hall of Fame, Christenberry served because the league’s first President from 1983-86

Representing Gardner-Webb, Sara-Michael Jann had a memorable senior day meet for GWU this previous season to cap off her profession, inserting third within the ladies’s 400-yard IM in opposition to Davidson, posting a time of 4:38.31 in her last meet at Bost Pool. Jann was additionally fourth within the ladies’s 100-yard freestyle in opposition to UNC Wilmington within the fall, ending in 54.40 seconds. Jann’s accomplishments additionally prolong again to her debut season for GWU, the place she completed with ten top-10 finishes and three occasion championships as a freshman. Her achievements within the pool for GWU went together with an ideal 4.0 GPA. Jann earned ASUN All-Academic Team honors following her last season, highlighting a exceptional profession each within the pool and out

Also representing Gardner-Webb, Jensen set a private finest within the males’s 100 yard free on the 2026 ASUN Championships, recording a time of 44.78 seconds, a meet the place he posted fourth place runs as a part of the 200 yard and 400 yard relay groups. Jensen additionally received the boys’s 50-yard freestyle in opposition to Davidson in January with a time of 20.72 seconds. He was named each ASUN All-Academic and College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District after the season, highlighting each educational and athletic achievement to cap off his Gardner-Webb profession