NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The United States Collegiate Athletic Association has announced the 2016 Winter Non-USCAA Sport National All-Academic Team. Seven different Illinois Tech swimming and diving team members qualified for the honor.

The USCAA’s National All-Academic Award is designed to recognize all student-athletes (sophomores, juniors, and seniors at four year institutions and sophomores at two year institutions) who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 (on a 4.00 point system) or greater.

Illinois Tech’s award recipients are as follows:

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Matthew Williams

Tanner Grieve

Kevin Boldt

Moses Yao

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Nicole Frantz

Ava Obenaus

Brigitte Temple 

The Non-USCAA Sport National All-Academic Award is for those student athletes that participate at a member institution in a sport that is not currently recognized by the USCAA.