Eight Runnin’ Bulldogs Named to 2025-26 ASUN Swimming All-Academic Team

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – With the 2025-26 season now concluded, eight members of the Gardner-Webb swimming group have been named to this season’s ASUN All-Academic Team

The  ASUN All-Academic Team acknowledges student-athletes who excel each on the sphere and within the classroom. All student-athletes named to the listing boast a 3.50 cumulative grade level common or higher and took part in at the very least half of their group’s video games, whereas additionally having accomplished at the very least two years or 50% of labor in the direction of a level.

Justin Bender – Senior, Business Administration – Previously named the 2025 ASUN Men’s Most Outstanding Swimmer, Bender adopted up his record-setting efficiency with third place within the 100 breast at 2026 ASUN Championships, main the GWU males’s 400 yard medley relay group which set a brand new faculty document with a time of three:12.39, in addition to the boys’s 200 yard medley relay with one other GWU document time of 1:26.56

Dan Bennett – Junior, Biology – Part of the the GWU 400 yard medley relay group which set a brand new faculty document on the 2026 ASUN Championships with a time of three:12.39. Bennett additionally posted a fourth place run within the 200 yard IM towards Cumberlands this season, doing so in 1:59.96

Jacob Jensen – Junior, Business Administration – Set a brand new private finest within the males’s 100 yard free on the 2026 ASUN Championships, recording a time of 44.78 seconds. Jensen additionally gained the males’s 50-yard freestyle towards Davidson in January with a time of 20.72 seconds

Carter Redelman – Junior, Exercise Science – Part of the GWU 400 yard medley relay group which set a brand new faculty document on the 2026 ASUN Championships with a time of three:12.39, in addition to the boys’s 200 yard medley relay with one other GWU document time of 1:26.56. Also set a brand new PR with 49.82 seconds within the males’s 100 yard fly on the occasion

Luke Weber – Junior, Accounting – Season included a brand new faculty document set within the males’s 1650 free, with a time of 15:36.92 on the ASUN Championships, a 3rd place run within the occasion to land on the rostrum. Weber additionally picked up victory within the males’s 400-yard IM towards Davidson, recording a time of three:59.75, the one swimmer within the occasion to complete in beneath 4:00

Slawka Ndubuisi – Junior, Psychology – At the 2026 ASUN Championships, her time of twenty-two.92 seconds within the girls’s 50 yard freestyle was good for third place, a spot on the rostrum for GWU, and a private finest time. Also had an exceptional meet towards Davidson, scoring two particular person wins on the day for the Runnin’ Bulldogs. The Columbia, S.C. native gained the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle in a blistering 23.25 seconds, then the ladies’s 100-yard freestyle in 52.05 seconds

Sara-Michael Jann – Senior, Biology – Had a memorable senior day meet for GWU this season, putting third within the girls’s 400-yard IM towards Davidson, posting a time of 4:38.31 in her ultimate meet at Bost Pool. Jann was additionally fourth within the girls’s 100-yard freestyle towards UNC Wilmington within the fall, ending in 54.40 seconds

Isabella Palazzo – Junior, Healthcare Management – Recorded a time of 58.36 second within the girls’s 100 yard backstroke, the most effective runs of her GWU profession, earlier this yr at Queens’ Fall Frenzy