Samson Qu and Dickinson Swimming Earn CSCAA All-American Standing

The College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America introduced each the crew and particular person 2025-26 Scholar All-Americans. Both Dickinson ladies’s and males’s groups had been honored for the Spring 2026 semester, alongside sophomore Samson Qu incomes a person spot. 

Majoring in Mathematics, Qu positioned on the CSCAA Scholar All-American second crew. He is certainly one of over 2,230 swimmers to earn the distinction for the 2025-26 season. Qualifying requirements for the Second Team embrace sustaining a 3.5 GPA or larger and incomes not less than one NCAA “B” Cut all through the season. He turns into the primary Red Devil to earn a spot for the reason that 2019-20 season, the place sophomore Logan Cort obtained the distinction as an Honorable Mention.

Qu discovered immense success all through the 2025-26 season, together with setting new private bests in six occasions, incomes NCAA B-Cut distinctions 4 instances, and breaking college information within the 100 IM, and aside of the relay groups for the 400 Free, 200 Medley, and 400 Medley.

At the 2026 Centennial Conference Championships, the sophomore gained gold within the 100 Free with a time of 44.60 and lowered his NCAA B-Cut within the occasion. He recorded different podium finishes within the 200 Medley Relay (third place), 400 Medley Relay (fourth place), 200 Free Relay (fourth place), 400 Free Relay (fourth place), 50 Free (fifth place), and 100 Fly (eighth place).

As a crew, each males’s and girls’s packages had been honored as a Spring 2026 Scholar All-America Team. Led by head coach Anthony Pompei and assistants Laurel Gingrich and Devon Chenot, the ladies’s crew achieved a 3.67 GPA and the boys posted a 3.35 crew common. 

The CSCAA Spring 2026 Scholar All-America Teams, offered by Fitter & Faster Swim Camps, acknowledged 714 groups from 418 establishments, representing 16,680 student-athletes. Two Division III establishments posted the very best GPAs throughout all divisions, with Stevenson University’s males’s crew posting a 3.95 and Colorado College’s ladies’s crew reaching a 3.92. Teams had been chosen on the premise of their Spring 2026 grade level averages and had been required to realize a crew GPA of three.00 or larger to earn Scholar All-America recognition.