Kangas earns third straight NSIC Elite 18 Award for Swimming & Diving

WEST FARGO, N.D. – Maija Kangas of Augustana University earned her third straight NSIC Elite 18 Award for girls’s swimming & diving.  Kangas was introduced the award in the course of the NSIC Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship senior recognition ceremony previous to Friday night’s competitors.

As a part of the NSIC twenty fifth Anniversary celebration in the course of the 2016-17 educational 12 months, the NSIC Elite 18 Award was instituted to acknowledge the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the person who has reached the top of competitors on the NSIC Championship stage in his or her sport, whereas additionally reaching the very best educational normal amongst his or her friends. The NSIC Elite 18 award is introduced to the student-athlete with the very best cumulative grade-point common collaborating on the finals web site for every of the NSIC’s 18 Championships.

The NSIC Swimming & Diving Championships are happening Wed.-Sat. Feb. 11-14 on the Hulbert Aquatic Center in West Fargo, North Dakota.

Kangas, a local of Excelsior, Minnesota and Minnetonka High School grad, is an accounting; Spanish main, whereas holding a 4.0 grade level common. She is at the moment pursuing a Master of Professional Accountancy diploma.

Last season Kangas was a part of the profitable 800 yard freestyle relay and two seasons in the past she  took third within the 500 Free (5:03.88), seventh within the 1000 Free (10:40.07), ninth within the 1650 Free (17:56.14), and ninth within the 400 IM (4:34.23) on the NSIC Championships. Her 500 Free time earned her an NCAA B-Cut within the occasion. She additionally led off the NSIC profitable 800 Free relay in a season greatest time of 1:53.83.

In 2022-23, she was part of the NSIC 800 Freestyle Relay Championship group and was named All-NSIC within the 400 IM. She swam a private greatest and set the varsity file within the 200 free on the 2023 NSIC championships with a time of 1:52.19 and swam a private greatest within the 400 IM on the NSIC championships with a time of 4:28.96. She was additionally a member of the group that set the NSIC file within the 800 free relay on the NSIC championships with a time of seven:33.29.

She is the varsity file holder in each the 200 Free (1:52.19) and the 800 Free Relay (7:33.29).

About the NSIC

The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II convention with establishments situated in Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a mannequin Division II convention that makes use of high-level athletics competitors to develop champions within the classroom and neighborhood whereas empowering student-athletes to be impactful and optimistic leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (males’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (ladies’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the previous quarter century, maturing right into a union of Upper Midwest faculties and universities. The NSIC has received 27 group nationwide championships and topped 122 particular person nationwide champions. For further info, go to NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II

The NCAA, the nationwide governing physique for faculty athletics, is a volunteer affiliation of greater than 1,000 faculties and universities that classify their athletics applications in one in all three membership divisions. The 300+ establishments in NCAA Division II assist a balanced method wherein student-athletes can earn scholarships primarily based on their athletic potential, pursue their desired educational diploma, and take part in all of the campus and surrounding neighborhood have to supply. Division II student-athletes yearly graduate at charges increased than their pupil physique friends, and so they have entry to the most effective championships-participant ratio among the many NCAA’s three divisions. Division II offers student-athletes the distinctive alternative to compete within the classroom, on the sector, of their profession, for his or her causes, and on their phrases. For further info, go to NCAA.org.