From Emory University Athletics
Four members of the Emory University Swimming and Diving Team
– seniors Brooke Woodward and Matt O'Brien,
and sophomores Elizabeth Aronoff and Andrew
Wilson – were named to the Capital One Academic
All-District At-Large Team, based on their performances both in the
classroom and the pool during the 2013-14 season.
Woodward is a three-time all-American, earning honors with a
fourth-place finish in the 400-yard individual medley in 2012, and
fifth- and eighth-place finishes, respectively, in the 400-yard
individual medley and 200-yard breaststroke in 2013. This
season, she earned an honorable mention with a
12th-place finish in the 400-yard individual medley, in
addition to claiming all-University Athletic Association (UAA)
honors with a third-place finish in the event at the conference
championships. Woodward is a three-time CSCAA Scholar
All-American, and has accumulated a 3.90 GPA as an Anthropology
major at Emory.
O'Brien has a 3.886 cumulative grade point average during his time
as a Business and Political Science dual major at Emory. For
his academic efforts, he has been selected to the Dean's List on
four occasions, has been named a CSCAA Scholar All-American twice,
and has been awarded the Goizueta Bank of America
Scholarship. In the pool, O'Brien earned all-America honors
with an eighth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly in 2012, and
is a two-time all-America Honorable Mention. He also earned
all-UAA honors with a second-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly
at this year's conference meet.
Aronoff claimed the National Championship in the 200-yard
breaststroke, winning the event at the 2014 NCAA Championships with
a time of 2:14.37, good for a school record, and finished third in
the 100-yard breaststroke. At the UAA Championships, the
sophomore won the conference title in the 200-yard breaststroke,
while placing second in the 100-yard breaststroke. Aronoff
has a 3.85 GPA as a Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology major at
Emory.
Wilson was a part of a pair of winning relays at the 2014 NCAA
Championships, winning the National Title as the breaststroke leg
of Emory's 200-yard medley and 400-yard medley relays. He set
school records in each event, and the 400-yard medley relay time
was just four-hundredths of a second off the national record.
Wilson was also the runner-up in both the 100-yard breaststroke and
200-yard breaststroke, setting records in both, while claiming
fifth in the 200-yard individual medley, and increased his two-year
all-America certificate tally to seven. In the classroom,
Wilson has a 3.75 GPA as a Physics and Applied Mathematics
major.
Voting for the Academic All-District team is conducted by the
College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Emory is part of District 5, which includes Division III schools in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and
Virginia. Sports represented on the 'At-Large' team include
women's bowling, women's crew, men's and women's fencing, women's
field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics,
men's and women's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and
women's rifle, men's and women's skiing, men's and women's
swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's volleyball, men's and
women's water polo and men's wrestling.
The Emory University Women's Swimming and Diving Team won its
fifth-consecutive NCAA Division III Championship in 2014, while the
men's team finished third, marking the program's
13th top-three finish.