Nine Bruins Earn Academic All-District At-Large Honors

GREENWOOD, Ind. – Nine UCLA student-athletes have been introduced Tuesday as Academic All-District honorees by College Sports Communicators (CSC). All 9 garnered recognition as a part of the At-Large program, which elements in 23 NCAA males’s and girls’s sports activities from throughout the nation.

Maggie Boyd (seashore volleyball), Sally Perez (seashore volleyball), Riley Jenkins (gymnastics), Mika Webster-Longin (gymnastics), Kaija Frassrand (rowing) and Emma Lineback (girls’s water polo) certified on the ladies’s aspect. Sean Kelly (males’s volleyball), Chase Dodd (males’s water polo) and Noah Rowe (males’s water polo) made the reduce on the boys’s aspect.

In order to be eligible, a student-athlete should be a minimum of a sophomore academically and athletically and possess a cumulative undergraduate and graduate, if relevant, grade-point common of three.50 or higher. Boyd, Perez, Lineback, Kelly and Dodd are additionally on the poll for Academic All-America consideration. CSC will reveal these lists July 7 (girls) and eight (males).

The two-time MPSF Pair of the Year, Boyd and Perez, led the UCLA seashore volleyball workforce to its third NCAA championship in May, clinching the championship with a straight-set win on Court 1 over top-seeded Stanford. The duo went 33-6 on the No. 1 courtroom and earned AVCA Top Flight honors for the second-straight 12 months. Each earned first-team All-America and All-MPSF honors, with Boyd turning into the seventh participant in NCAA historical past to earn 4 first-team All-America honors.

Boyd, a senior psychology main from Flower Mound, Texas, was named the AVCA National Player of the Year and completed her profession with 122 wins to rank No. 4 all-time at UCLA. She additionally ranks No. 2 and No. 4 on UCLA’s profession pairs victories record, totaling 61 wins with Perez and 57 with Lexy Denaburg. Boyd is a standout within the classroom as nicely, incomes second-team Academic All-America honors and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award in 2025. Perez, a sophomore psychology main from Apex, N.C., was the MPSF Player of the Year and a finalist for the AVCA National Player of the Year award. She led the Bruins in wins with 34 and has already totaled 65 wins in her profession, rating twenty third all time at UCLA.

Sophomore gymnasts Jenkins and Webster-Longin helped lead UCLA to a fifth-place nationwide end and to its second consecutive Big Ten championship. They are unbeaten in Big Ten play of their profession, going 18-0 throughout two seasons, and every earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

Jenkins, a psychology main from Burbank, Calif., received a share of the 2026 Big Ten vault championship, scoring a career-high 9.950, to earn Big Ten All-Championship Team honors. She competed on vault in each meet and averaged 9.828 on the 12 months. Webster-Longin, a historical past and sociology main with an African American Studies minor, earned second-team All-America honors within the all-around after an eighth-place end within the second session of the NCAA Championships. She contributed 9.8-or-better scores on 28 of her 32 routines on the 12 months and scored a career-high 39.550 within the all-around on the Big Ten Championships.

Senior Frassrand was one in all two Bruins included on the All-Big Ten First Team for the 2025-26 season. A staple within the 1V8+, Frassrand has earned All-Big Ten honors in back-to-back campaigns with the Bruins as a rower in UCLA’s prime boat. She helped the Bruins to fourth place within the grand finals of the primary varsity eight in Indianapolis this May; UCLA positioned fifth general as a workforce on the Big Ten Championships. Frassrand additionally racked up educational accolades during the last two seasons as she was named Big Ten All-Academic and a CRCA Scholar Athlete as each a junior and a senior.

Kelly, an outdoor hitter from Manhattan Beach, Calif., earns his first CSC Academic All-District honors in 2026. The sophomore led the Bruins in complete kills as UCLA went 29-2 on the 12 months and was the No. 1 ranked workforce within the nation all through your complete common season. Kelly, a enterprise economics main, recorded 396 kills and hit .398 on the 12 months.

Dodd, Rowe and the boys’s water polo workforce earned their second NCAA title in as a few years – and 14th in program historical past – beating top-seeded USC in an 11-10 thriller (Dec. 7). Dodd was named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team after scoring 4 objectives throughout three video games, together with two within the last. He ranked among the many workforce leaders in objectives (42), assists (42), steals (24) and earned exclusions (22). This is the newest award for redshirt senior from Long Beach, Calif., who has acquired the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor, been named to the ACWPC All-America and All-MPSF West first groups and picked up educational accolades from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten since late 2025.

This is Rowe’s second All-District nod (additionally 2024). The senior from North Tustin, Calif. logged 4 multi-goal video games and located the again of the online 23 occasions in all. He completed the marketing campaign tied, with Chase Dodd, for the workforce lead in subject blocks with 14. Rowe has additionally been acknowledged by the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten for his work within the classroom.

Lineback, a redshirt senior from Laguna Beach, Calif., added one other honor to her embellished profession and last season as a Bruin. Her second All-District decide (2025) accompanies extra educational awards from the ACWPC, MPSF and Big Ten this 12 months. Lineback tallied 34 objectives in 2026 and ranked among the many MPSF’s leaders in assists, capturing a spot on the All-MPSF Second Team whereas receiving honorable point out from the ACWPC when its All-America record was finalized.