RICHMOND, Va. — The Bates swimming and diving program had an enormous 12 months within the pool and within the classroom, and that was acknowledged on Thursday by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America, with all 9 Bobcats who competed on the NCAA Championships incomes first staff Scholar All-America honors and each squads being named Scholar All-America Teams.
Teams have been chosen on the idea of their Spring 2026 grade level averages and have been required to realize a staff grade level common of three.00 or greater to earn Scholar All-America recognition. The Bates ladies’s swimming and diving staff posted a GPA of three.69 whereas the boys’s staff checked in at 3.80. The males’s staff GPA is the best within the NESCAC and is tied for the fourth-highest in all of NCAA Division III. Both groups have been additionally acknowledged within the fall as Scholar All-America groups, after they each achieved GPAs of three.75.
Nine Bobcats represented the Bobcats at this 12 months’s NCAA Division III Championships and all 9 earned first staff Scholar All-America recognition for his or her work within the classroom, assembly the standards of getting earned a GPA of three.5 or greater and taking part of their nationwide championship.
- On the ladies’s facet of the ledger, Sarah Palmer ’27 (Brunswick, Maine) is now a three-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American after a season that noticed the arithmetic main place sixth within the 200-yard breaststroke and eleventh within the 100-yard breaststroke on the NCAA Championships.
- Men’s staff captain Max Cory ’26 (Dublin, Calif.) wraps up his profession as a four-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American. The biochemistry main graduates as probably the most adorned males’s sport athlete in Bates College historical past, having earned 15 All-America awards throughout his profession and two NCAA Division III nationwide championships, together with a 400-yard medley relay title this 12 months. He anchored the 400-yard medley relay, as Bates broke the NCAA Division III report within the occasion.
- Liam Friedlander ’27 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) certified for the NCAA Championships for the primary time in his profession this season, inserting twenty fourth nationally after ending NESCAC runner-up within the 200-yard butterfly. The environmental research main sports activities a GPA of three.96 and was additionally one in all eight Bobcats chosen for the College Sports Communicators Swimming & Diving Academic All-District® Team.
- Tim Johnson ’27 (Brewster, Mass.) is now a three-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American. A member of the NCAA Division III champion and nationwide record-breaking 400-yard medley relay staff, the biochemistry main positioned fifth within the nation within the 200-yard backstroke and twelfth within the 100-yard backstroke this 12 months. He additionally helped the 400-yard freestyle relay staff take fourth place.
- Nate Oppenheim ’28 (Easton, Conn.) is now a two-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American. A member of the NCAA Division III champion and nationwide record-breaking 400-yard medley relay staff, the psychology main positioned twelfth within the nation within the 100-yard breaststroke this 12 months.
- After a 12 months learning at Dartmouth, Nate Pierce ’26 (Fairfield, Maine) returned to the Bobcats this season and did not miss a beat. Now a three-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American, the physics / mechanical engineering double main helped Bates place fourth within the nation within the 400-yard freestyle relay.
- Men’s staff captain and College Sports Communicators first staff Academic All-America® choice Marrich Somridhivej ’26 (South Windsor, Conn.) had maybe the best season in Bates athletics historical past. He gained the NCAA Division III championship in each the 100-yard breaststroke and the 400-yard medley relay. He additionally helped the 200-yard freestyle relay staff take fifth within the nation and positioned thirteenth individually within the 200-yard breaststroke. The biology main graduates holding six Bates information, three NCAA Division III information, as a 10-time All-American, and as a four-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American.
- John Weigel ’27 (Iowa City, Iowa) is now a three-time CSCAA first staff Scholar All-American, having helped Bates place fourth within the nation within the 400-yard freestyle relay on the NCAA Championships. The neuroscience main additionally helped the Bobcats take fifth within the 200-yard freestyle relay and took twelfth individually within the 200-yard freestyle and fifteenth within the 100-yard freestyle.
- In addition to being acknowledged as a primary staff CSCAA Scholar All-American, Benjamin Wolking ’27 (Micanopy, Fla.) can be a College Sports Communicators third staff Academic All-America® choice, because the biomedical engineering main sports activities an ideal 4.00 GPA. A NESCAC champion together with Cory, Somridhivej, and Weigel within the 200-yard freestyle relay, Wolking went on to assist the staff earn All-America honors within the occasion, because the Bobcats positioned fifth nationally. Wolking’s story goes far past the pool, because the winner of the “Bobcat Award” on the 2026 CATSBYs explains in his TEDx Talk “Dare to be Delusional.”