Alabama Swimming and Diving Puts Four on 2017 Men's CoSIDA Academic All-District Team
5/11/2017 3:48:00 PM | Swimming & Diving
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The University of Alabama put four swimmers - Anton McKee, Connor Oslin, Pavel Romanov and Luke Kaliszak - on the 2017 Men's Academic All-District IV Team selected by College Sports Information Directors of America.
The four swimmers now advance to the national ballot for the 2017 Academic All-America At-Large Team. The men's at-large team spans the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo, volleyball and wrestling.
Alabama is the only school with four student-athletes on the District IV list and the only one among all eight district teams to have four student-athletes from the same team earn the honor. Minnesota had four student-athletes earn district honors from two different teams. McKee and Oslin earned district honors for the third year in a row while Romanov made the team for the second time and Kaliszak for the first.
McKee and Oslin are two-time Academic All-Americans, while Romanov earned the honor last season. Crimson Tide swimmers have earned all-district honors 15 times since 2008, including five - Oslin, McKee, Romanov, Kevin Greer (2009) and Kyle Weeks (2011 and 2012) - who went on to earn Academic All-America honors.
Oslin, the three-time SEC 100 backstroke champion, Kaliszak and Romanov were part of the Tide's 2016 NCAA champion 200 medley relay squad while McKee, the 2014 and 2017 SEC 200 breaststroke champion, was the 2017 NCAA 200 breaststroke runner-up. All four were key to Alabama's trio of top-10 NCAA team finishes from 2015-17.
Oslin, a native of Kennesaw, Ga., earned a 3.92 grade point average while earning his pre-med degree. McKee, a Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, native, earned a 4.0 GPA on the way to a degree in management information systems. Romanov, who hails from Moscow, Russia, also carries a 4.0 GPA while majoring in economics. Kaliszak, a native of Huntsville, Ala., carries a 3.93 GPA while majoring in human performance and exercise science.
To be eligible for Academic All-America consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.0, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his current institution.
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