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.
By virtue of being named to the Capital One Academic All-District team, the four will be placed on the ballot for the Academic all-America Team. The first-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced on Tuesday, June 3rd.
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.