Women's At-Large Academic All-District Teams
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A flawless 4.0 grade-point average through the end of her sophomore year helped earn Purdue swimmer and 2018 NCAA Championships qualifier Megan Johnson Google Cloud Academic All-District honors.
Johnson is a health science pre-professional (pre-med) major. She specializes in the freestyle events and ranks 10th in program history in the 200 free, scoring in the event at the Big Ten Championships each of her underclassman seasons.
The Fort Wayne native was recognized as the program's Cathy Wright-Eger Continuing Women of Educational Excellence award winner this season. Johnson was among the program-record 31 Academic All-Big Ten honorees for Purdue women's swimming & diving this season and will be named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar next month.
After being among the regional honorees in District 5, Johnson advances to the national ballot from which the Academic All-America teams are selected. District 5 includes universities in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
Johnson was part of Purdue's 800 free relay team that qualified for the national championship meet in 2018. After helping the Boilermakers post a top-30 national time in the event at Big Tens, she swam the leadoff leg at NCAAs. Johnson teamed with Kaersten Meitz, Gretta DeCoursey and Maizie Seidl to post the second-fastest time in program history. DeCoursey, Johnson and Seidl also represented the Big Ten in the 800 free relay at the inaugural ACC/Big Ten Challenge, which Purdue hosted in November of this season.
Unlike many team sports, swimming and diving is part of the at-large group for the Academic All-District and All-America program. Each school is permitted to nominate only three male and three female student-athletes for consideration from sports like swimming & diving, tennis, golf, wrestling, ice hockey and others. Nominees must be sophomores and above with a GPA of 3.30 and higher.
Purdue swimming & diving had at least one Academic All-District honoree every year this decade. Johnson is the first member of the women's program to be recognized since Academic All-American Lauren Gustafson in 2013.
Johnson was one of four swimmers on the women's Academic All-District 5 team, joining Michigan State's Courtney Aycock, Bowling Green's Talisa Lemke and Cleveland State's Molly McNamara. Eight of the 11 student-athletes on the District 5 team had flawless 4.0 GPAs when they were nominated.
PURDUE SWIM-DIVE'S ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONOREES THIS DECADE
2010 – Christine Inman, David Colturi
2011 – Lauren Gustafson, Allie Smith, Matt Stewart
2012 – Lauren Roth
2013 – Lauren Gustafson, Jamie Bissett
2014 – Jamie Bissett
2015 – Jamie Bissett
2016 – Marat Amaltdinov
2017 – Marat Amaltdinov
2018 – Marat Amaltdinov
2019 – Megan Johnson
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A flawless 4.0 grade-point average through the end of her sophomore year helped earn Purdue swimmer and 2018 NCAA Championships qualifier Megan Johnson Google Cloud Academic All-District honors.
Johnson is a health science pre-professional (pre-med) major. She specializes in the freestyle events and ranks 10th in program history in the 200 free, scoring in the event at the Big Ten Championships each of her underclassman seasons.
The Fort Wayne native was recognized as the program's Cathy Wright-Eger Continuing Women of Educational Excellence award winner this season. Johnson was among the program-record 31 Academic All-Big Ten honorees for Purdue women's swimming & diving this season and will be named a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar next month.
After being among the regional honorees in District 5, Johnson advances to the national ballot from which the Academic All-America teams are selected. District 5 includes universities in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
Johnson was part of Purdue's 800 free relay team that qualified for the national championship meet in 2018. After helping the Boilermakers post a top-30 national time in the event at Big Tens, she swam the leadoff leg at NCAAs. Johnson teamed with Kaersten Meitz, Gretta DeCoursey and Maizie Seidl to post the second-fastest time in program history. DeCoursey, Johnson and Seidl also represented the Big Ten in the 800 free relay at the inaugural ACC/Big Ten Challenge, which Purdue hosted in November of this season.
Unlike many team sports, swimming and diving is part of the at-large group for the Academic All-District and All-America program. Each school is permitted to nominate only three male and three female student-athletes for consideration from sports like swimming & diving, tennis, golf, wrestling, ice hockey and others. Nominees must be sophomores and above with a GPA of 3.30 and higher.
Purdue swimming & diving had at least one Academic All-District honoree every year this decade. Johnson is the first member of the women's program to be recognized since Academic All-American Lauren Gustafson in 2013.
Johnson was one of four swimmers on the women's Academic All-District 5 team, joining Michigan State's Courtney Aycock, Bowling Green's Talisa Lemke and Cleveland State's Molly McNamara. Eight of the 11 student-athletes on the District 5 team had flawless 4.0 GPAs when they were nominated.
PURDUE SWIM-DIVE'S ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONOREES THIS DECADE
2010 – Christine Inman, David Colturi
2011 – Lauren Gustafson, Allie Smith, Matt Stewart
2012 – Lauren Roth
2013 – Lauren Gustafson, Jamie Bissett
2014 – Jamie Bissett
2015 – Jamie Bissett
2016 – Marat Amaltdinov
2017 – Marat Amaltdinov
2018 – Marat Amaltdinov
2019 – Megan Johnson