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St. Ambrose leads NAIA in swim and dive Scholar-Athletes

St. Ambrose leads NAIA in swim and dive Scholar-Athletes

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) released the 2024 Daktronics NAIA Men's and Women's Swim & Dive Scholar-Athletes. St. Ambrose led the country with a total of 35 on the two teams.

SAU had a national-best 21 named to the men's team - Abe Alwan, Lucas AscuaTayden BlairWalter de JonghJuan GomezMikhi HassimBrett JonesTruitt LandoltEgoitz Munoz MorenoThomas NollerBen PattersonSebastian PereiraCarter PrullJonathan RollwaKhalil RuizRyan SaftaDavid SchneiderLuke SprouleBlake TylerNikolai Valencia and Benny Zarhin.

The Bee women placed 14 on the team, second only to St. Thomas - Leyre Antonanzas, Irene Artabe, Molli Baumann, Amanda Beuth, Grace Bobeldyk, Allison Fellner, Emily Henson, Riley Loeffler, Libby Moses, Caitlin Pieroni, Madeline Piper, Rylie Steinkamp, Amber Warak and Lauren Williams.

A total of 148 men and 189 women were named to the teams. In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale, must appear on the eligibility certificate for the sport and have attended one full year at said institution.