Melnyk Earns CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America Second Team Honors

Women’s Swimming | 7/3/2026 9:00:00 AM

RICHMOND, Va. – Gannon University freshman swimmer Mariia Melnyk (Kyiv, Ukraine/Education Center Optima) has been named to the 2025-26 College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Individual Scholar All-America Second Team, as introduced by the group.

The CSCAA acknowledged greater than 2,230 swimmers and divers on its 2025-26 Scholar All-America Team offered by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps.

To qualify for First-Team Scholar All-America, student-athletes will need to have earned a GPA of three.5 or greater and took part of their nationwide championship.

Second-Team choices, will need to have additionally earned a 3.5 GPA or greater and met an NIC “A” time customary in Division I or an NCAA “B” qualifying customary for the nationwide championship or certified for a diving zone qualification meet for Division II, Division III, and NAIA.

A prison justice main, Melnyk earned the nationwide tutorial honor after posting a 3.774 cumulative grade level common.

Melnyk put collectively an impressive freshman marketing campaign for the Golden Knights, recording NCAA Division II qualifying occasions that met the NCAA “B” customary within the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, and 100-yard backstroke.

In November towards Case Western Reserve, she broke the college report within the 100-yard freestyle with a time of fifty.80 and was a member of the 400-yard medley relay workforce that tied the college report with a time of three:53.87.

Later that month on the Malone Invitational, Melnyk lowered her personal 100-yard freestyle report to 50.70 whereas additionally establishing faculty data within the 50-yard freestyle (23.42) and 100-yard backstroke (55.85).

Melnyk concluded the house season by setting the Carneval Athletic Pavilion pool report within the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.49 through the Golden Knights’ January tri-meet towards Malone and Oberlin.

Her three particular person faculty data surpassed marks that had stood since 2021-22 within the 50-yard freestyle, 2020-21 within the 100-yard freestyle, and 2017-18 within the 100-yard backstroke.