Alabama Men's Swimming and Diving Leads Nation with Two Academic All-America At-Large First-Team Honors
6/14/2022 11:52:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Swimmers Derek Maas and Nicholas Perera both earned a place on the CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large First Team for the second year in a row
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men's swimming and diving team leads the nation with two swimmers on the 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large First Team, the College Sports Information Directors Association announced Tuesday.
Swimmers Derek Maas and Nicholas Perera earned spots on the at-large first team for the second year in a row, making the Crimson Tide the only school with multiple first-team honorees this year.
Unlike the other Academic All-America teams which represent a single sport, the at-large program spans several men's sports, including fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo, volleyball and wrestling.
Maas, an All-American, SEC Champion and SEC record holder, graduated with a 4.0 grade point average in biology on the premed track and is currently pursuing an MBA. Perera, an All-American, graduated in May with a 4.0 GPA in mechanical engineering.
The women's at-large team will be announced on Wednesday.
Inside the Numbers
- With the Tide's two men's at-large honors, Alabama has garnered 215 Academic All-America accolades, ranking fifth all-time in NCAA Division I
- Since nominations for the at-large team went from a maximum of three men and three women to four of each in 2014, Alabama leads the nation with 44 honors, a dozen better than the next-highest total
- The Alabama men's swimming and diving program has been particularly prolific in terms of Academic All-Americans over the past eight years, with 12 swimmers earning 22 honors, nearly doubling what any other school has on the at-large team over that span for all sports combined
- Overall, 23 members of the men's and women's swimming and diving squads have earned a spot on the at-large team 35 times
- In all, Alabama student-athletes have earned a place on the Academic All-America At-Large team 90 times since making their first appearance in 1986
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