By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
The College Sports Communicators released the Academic All-America lists earlier this week for women’s college swimming across all three NCAA Divisions and NAIA.
At the top of the list were the four Academic All-America Team Members of the Year, one from each of the four categories.
Division I
UVA junior Claire Curzan earned the women’s Division I title. She is an Applied Statistics major, and has a 3.87 GPA. At the 2026 NCAA Championships, she earned the national titles in the 100 and 200 backstroke events and participated in four of Virginia’s national title relays, helping lead the program to their sixth straight overall team title.
This is the 2nd year in a row the Division I award has gone to a UVA swimmer after Gretchen Walsh earned the honor following the 2024-2025 season. It also marks Curzan’s second year on the list.
Seven members of the Division I team have perfect 4.0 GPAs:
Erin Gemmell: University of Texas — Junior, Plan II Honors Emily Jones: University of Alabama — Senior, Sport Management Brady Kendall: University of Michigan — Senior, Pharmacy Letitia Sim: University of Michigan — Senior, Applied Exercise Science Ela Freiman: San Jose State University — Grad Student, Biomedical Engineering Emily Lundgren: Washington State University — Senior, Digital Technology & Culture Reese Cole: Rice University — Sophomore, Sports Medicine & Exercise Physiology & Neuroscience (1) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (2) = 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (3) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (4) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24Division II
The Division II award went to Findlay senior Emily Mears-Bentley. She has a 3.90 GPA in Psychology, and this marks her third year on the list after she was a second team selection in 2024-2025 and a third-team selection in 2023-2024.
At the NCAA Division II Championships, she won the women’s 200 fly to become the first female Findlay swimmer in history to earn a title and the fourth Findlay swimmer total. During the meet, she also picked up 2nd-place finishers in the 100 free and 100 fly and finished 5th in the 200 IM.
Five of the 24 athletes selected to the Division II team have a perfect 4.0:
Marit Rechmann: Catawba College — Senior, Biology Fiona Byrne: Catawba College — Junior, Biology & Psychology Joslyn Jurski: Pennsylvania Western University, Clarion — Senior, Management Adriana Mieses-Sanchez: University of West Florida — Senior, Biology Rachel Stanchek: Ashland University — Junior, Forensic Biology(1) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (2) = 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (3) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (4) = 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24 (5) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24
Division III
MIT senior Annika Naveen picked up the Division III honor for Team Member of the Year with a perfect 4.00 GPA in Bioengineering. She has been on the Academic All-American team for three years in a row, earning second-team spots in 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.
At this year’s NCAA Division III Championships, she qualified for the finals in two events, finishing 14th in both the 50 free and 100 free. At the NEWMAC Conference Championships, she earned the individual title in the 50 freestyle, and swam on five MIT winning relays to help the team earn the overall title.
There are only three Division III athletes, including Naveen, who boast a 4.0 GPA:
Claire Kozma: Case Western Reserve University — Senior, Human Nutrition Annika Naveen: MIT — Senior, Bioengineering Makenna Mincey: Baldwin Wallace University — Mathematics and Accounting (1) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (2) = 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (3) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (4) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2023-24 (5) = 2nd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24 (6) = 3rd team Academic All-America® in 2023-24NAIA
Finally, SCAD Savannah senior Nikki Hahn was the NAIA honoree. Hahn is a User Experience Design major with a 4.0 GPA, and this is her third year in a row earning Academic All-American first team honors.
At the 2026 NAIA Championships, she won the overall title in the 100 breast and 200 breast. She also participated in the SCAD runner-up 200 medley and 400 medley relays and finished 8th in the 200 IM.
Hahn was one of three perfect 4.0 members from NAIA schools on the Academic All-American List:
Nikki Hahn: SCAD Savannah — Senior, User Experience Design Ugne Takuseviciute: University of the Cumberlands — Sophomore, Business Administration Sara Zoellner: University of the Cumberlands — Junior, Biology (1) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2024-25 (2) = 1st team Academic All-America® in 2023-24Read the full story on SwimSwam: Claire Curzan Earns NCAA Division I Academic All-American Team Member of the Year
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