CSC Honors Three NESCAC Ladies’s Swimmers with Academic All-America Accolades

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Three NESCAC ladies’s swimmers had been chosen to the 2026 CSC Academic All-America Team, introduced by College Sports Communicators. The Amherst duo of Maeve Kelley and Donna Zhang, together with Tufts’ Madeleine Dunn, had been all third-team choices.

The award acknowledges the nation’s prime student-athletes for his or her mixed performances within the pool and within the classroom. To be eligible for the honour, student-athletes should compete in 75 p.c of competitions, end within the prime eight at a convention meet, or compete in a nationwide championship, have no less than a 3.50 cumulative GPA, and be a sophomore or larger in tutorial standing.

Kelley earns her first CSC Academic All-America honor as an economics main with a 3.86 GPA. Kelley swam her technique to All-America honors in 4 occasions on the NCAA Championships, incomes a First Team choice within the 200 butterfly after a school-record swim, and Second Team accolades within the 100 butterfly and 400 and 800 freestyle relays.

 

Zhang, a arithmetic and statistics main with a 3.88 GPA, additionally garnered her first Academic All-America choice with the most effective season of her profession. Named the 2025-26 NESCAC Co-Diver of the Year, Zhang additionally earned a First Team All-America choice within the 3-meter and a Second Team award within the 1-meter diving occasions on the NCAA Championships.

 

A biopsychology main with a 3.73 grade level common, Dunn is a three-year NESCAC All-Academic Team member and a College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American 3 times (2023-25).

In the pool, Dunn had an impressive senior season. At the NCAA Championships, she earned All-American honors in 4 occasions with three top-eight finishes within the 1650 freestyle (third), 500 freestyle (fifth), and 400 particular person medley (eighth). She was additionally chosen because the NESCAC Swimmer of the Year, the primary member of the Tufts ladies’s crew to earn the honour, after successful the NESCAC Championships within the 500, 1000, and 1650 freestyles, and breaking faculty information within the 400 IM and the 1650 freestyle on the convention championship meet.

A four-year All-American who earned the nationwide honor in 12 occasions general (5 first crew), she was additionally a seven-time convention champion who gained the NESCAC Career High Point Award on the 2026 championship meet for her four-year accomplishments on the meet. Named NESCAC Rookie of the Year in 2023, Dunn owns 4 faculty information general, together with the five hundred and 1000 freestyles.

 

































FIRST TEAM
Name School Yr. GPA Major
Fiora Beratahani (1) MIT Jr. 3.90 Mechanical Engineering
Molly Haag Kenyon College Sr. 3.77 Mathematics
Madeleine Kan Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Sr. 3.78 Engineering
Claire Kozma (2) (6) Case Western Reserve University Sr. 4.00 Human Nutrition
Annika Naveen (2) (5) MIT Sr. 4.00 Bioengineering
Nicole Ranile (2) New York University Sr. 3.89 Media, Culture & Communications
Sydney Smith (3) MIT Jr. 3.80 Mechanical Engineering
Drue Thielking (3) Denison University Sr. 3.91 Biology
SECOND TEAM
Name School Yr. GPA Major
Tess Boyer (2) Wheaton College (IL) Jr. 3.96 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Gwen Eisenebis Kenyon College Sr. 3.84 Mathematics
Greta Gidley Hope College Sr. 3.75 Elementary Education
Mackenzie Mayfield Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Sr. 3.85 Biology
Kaley McIntyre (1) (4) New York University Sr. 3.83 History
Nina Schwab Carleton College So. 3.93 Chemistry
Kavita Sekhon Wellesley College Sr. 3.94 Biological Sciences & Political Science
Alicia Soosai University of Chicago Sr. 3.70 Economics & Data Science
Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault Kenyon College Sr. 3.87 Philosophy & Political Science
THIRD TEAM
Name School Yr. GPA Major
Francesca Coppo (3) Pomona-Pitzer Jr. 3.98 Psychological Science
Madeleine Dunn Tufts University Sr. 3.73 Biopsychology
Emily Harris (2) Denison University Sr. 3.81 Financial Economics
Maeve Kelley Amherst College Jr. 3.86 Economics
Makenna Mincey Baldwin Wallace University So. 4.00 Mathematics & Accounting
Emery Muller New York University Sr. 3.84 Media, Culture & Communications
Donna Zhang Amherst College Sr. 3.88 Mathematics & Statistics

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


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