This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you possibly can go to the hyperlink bellow: https://floridagators.com/news/2026/4/29/mens-swimming-diving-liendo-headlines-three-gators-earning-college-sports-communicators-academic-all-america-honorsand if you wish to take away this text from our website please contact us [ad_1] GAINESVILLE, Fla. – To acknowledge their educational and athletic achievements all through the 2025-26 season three members of the Florida Men's Swimming and Diving crew earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America Honors. Headlining the group, Josh Liendo has been named the CSC Academic All-America Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Team Member of the Year and is a member of the Academic All-America First Team. 
 This honor marks Liendo's second CSC Academic All-America honor of his profession after being named to the Academic All-Americ First Team for the 2024-25 season as properly. He turns into the fourth Gator swimmer to obtain a number of CSC Academic All-America honors, becoming a member of Brad deborder (2013 & 2014), Greg Reeves (1999, 2000, 2001) and Kevin Nead (2007 & 2008). Earning his diploma in Education Sciences, Liendo holds a cumulative grade-point common of three.56. In his senior season, he was named a seven-time First Team All-American (100 Butterfly, 50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle, 200 Freestyle Relay, 400 Freestyle Relay and 400 Medley Relay) on the 2025-26 NCAA Division I National Championships bringing his complete to 26 All-American honors in his profession. He grew to become simply the second Gator in program historical past to brush his particular person occasions (50 free, 100 free and 100 fly), becoming a member of Caleb Dressel in that achievement. Liendo additionally set a brand new NCAA, program, meet and U.S. Open data after claiming his three-peat title for the 100 fly with a time of 42.54 in prelims and shattered that file once more within the ultimate with a 42.49. Joining Liendo on the Academic All-America First Team is fellow senior Eric Brown. Brown is incomes his diploma in Computer Science, graduating cum laude with a 3.89 GPA. Brown was named a Second Team All-American within the 1,650-freestyle serving to the Gators be runners-up on the 2025-26 NCAA Division I National Championships. Conor Gesing rounds out the trio of Gators incomes CSC Academic All-America Second Team. The junior diver holds a 3.86 GPA in Education Sciences. Gesing took fifth within the 3-meter and sixth within the 1-meter on the NCAA National Championships, gathering First Team All-American honors for each occasions. Overall, Gator student-athletes have been honored 178 occasions with Florida Men's Swimming and Diving incomes 23 CSC Academic All-America honors. GATOR ALL-AMERICANS THIS SEASON: 
 
 
 Name
 Sport
 Year
 Selection
 Team
 
 
 Josh Liendo
 Swimming & Diving
 2026
 Swimming
 1st
 
 
 Eric Brown
 Swimming & Diving
 2026
 Swimming
 1st
 
 
 Conor Gesing
 Swimming & Diving
 2026
 Diving
 2nd
 
 
 Xavian Lee
 Men's Basketball
 2026
 Men's Basketball
 2nd
 
 
 ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS BY SPORT: 
 
 
 Sport
 # of honorees
 
 # of honors
 
 
 
 Swimming (Men)
 19
 Student-athletes
 23
 Honors
 
 
 The eight members of the Division I first crew had a 3.91 common GPA. A complete of 5 members had 4.00 GPAs, with three on the primary crew. 2024-25 Academic All-America Men's Swimming & Diving Team – NCAA Division I FIRST TEAM
 Name School Yr. GPA Major Tommaso Baravelli Florida State University Sr. 3.99 Mechanical Engineering Eric Brown University of Florida Sr. 3.89 Computer Science Engineering Louis Dramm University of North Carolina Sr. 3.95 Neuroscience Jonny Kulow (1,4) Arizona State University Sr. 4.00 Microbiology Josh Liendo (1) University of Florida Sr. 3.56 Education Sciences Rex Maurer University of Texas Jr. 4.00 Finance Brandon Rosales U.S. Air Force Academy Sr. 4.00 Aeronautical Engineering Josh Zuchowski Stanford University Sr. 3.88 Economics SECOND TEAM
 Name School Yr. GPA Major Joe Christ U.S. Air Force Academy Jr. 3.72 Aerospace Engineering
 Liam Custer (2) Stanford University Sr. 3.70 Management Science & Engineering
 Andy Dobrzanski Arizona State University Sr. 3.57 Construction Management & Technology Conor Gesing University of Florida Jr. 3.86 Education Sciences Tommy Hagar University of Alabama Jr. 3.95 Mechanical Engineering Ilya Kharun Arizona State University Jr. 3.59 Business Henry McFadden Stanford University Jr. 3.78 Computer Science Braxton McGrath South Dakota State University Sr. 3.85 Mechanical Engineering Joe Polyak University of Minnesota So. 4.00 Biochemistry Zalan Sarkany Indiana University Sr. 3.66 Sport Marketing and Management
 Tim Korstanje University of Alabama Sr. 3.92 Economics & Finance Mitchell Schott Princeton Sr. 3.78 East Asian Studies THIRD TEAM
 Name School Yr. GPA Major Andreas Dupont Cabrera Stanford University Sr. 3.63 Economics Jerry Fox NC State Jr. 3.76 Industrial Engineering Mikkel Lee Indiana University Jr. 3.93 Finance Matvei Namakonov University of Delaware Sr. 3.89 Physics
 Liam Preston Binghamton University Sr. 4.00 Business Administration & Finance Moritz Wesemann Southern California Gr. 3.58/3.80 Computer Science CSC Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year: Josh Liendo, University of Florida (1) – Academic All-America® first-team choice in 2024-25 (2) – CSC Academic All-America® second-team choice in 2024-25
 (3) – CSC Academic All-America® third-team choice in 2024-25
 (4) – CSC Academic All-America® first-team choice in 2023-24 Stay Connected
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