WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nineteen members of Purdue Swimming & Diving – six divers and 13 swimmers – have been recognized for their academic excellence in conjunction with their athletic accomplishments, earning Scholar All-America accolades from the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America.
The CSCAA honors student-athletes that achieved 3.5-plus grade-point averages during the spring semester/quarter or the full school year. First-team honorees competed at the NCAA Championships. Second-team honorees achieved an individual NCAA Championships qualifying time, an CSCAA National Invitational Championship (NIC) automatic qualifying time, or competed at their NCAA Diving Zone Championships meet.
Team GPAs also remained strong at the Morgan J. Burke Aquatic. The Purdue men and women were recognized as CSCAA Scholar All-America Teams again. The women posted a 3.52 team mark and the men compiled a 3.17 GPA for the spring semester. Teams are recognized each semester for having 3.0-plus GPAs and the Boilermakers are annually on the lists unveiled in January and July.
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2026 SPRING SEMESTER BY THE NUMBERS |
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WOMEN (Roster of 33) |
MEN (Roster of 37) |
Six of Purdue’s 14 NCAA Championships qualifiers earned Scholar All-America accolades for their 3.5-plus GPAs. Of those six, silver medalist Daryn Wright as well as Max Miller and Zach Welsh were also All-Americans for their performances at NCAAs.
Wright was also Purdue’s female recipient of the Big Ten Medal of Honor for the 2025-26 school year, becoming the ninth Boilermaker diver since 2014 to earn the prestigious honor. The Olympian closed her career as a three-year CSCAA Scholar All-American.
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2026 CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS (FIRST TEAM) – NCAAs QUALIFIERS |
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Boilermaker (Previous Year Honors) |
Major |
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Economics |
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Reagan Mattice (2025) |
Chemical Engineering |
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Max Miller (2024) |
General Management/Finance |
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Kaden Springfield (2025) |
Marketing |
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Zach Welsh (2025) |
Finance |
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Daryn Wright (2024, 2025) |
Retail Management |
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2026 CSCAA SCHOLAR ALL-AMERICANS (SECOND TEAM) |
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Boilermaker (Previous Year Honors) |
NCAA Standard/NIC Standard/Zones |
Major |
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NCAA in 100 & 200 Back |
Chemical Engineering |
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Hannah Hill (2025) |
NIC in 50 Free |
Mechanical Engineering Technology |
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NCAA in 200 Fly |
Finance |
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NIC in 200 Fly |
Biomedical Health Sciences |
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NIC in 200 Breast |
Mechanical Engineering |
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Ruth Anne McCranie (2025) |
Zones on Platform |
Retail Management |
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Kate Mouser (2024, 2025) |
NIC in 400 IM |
Professional Flight Technology/Aviation Management |
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NIC in 100 & 200 Free |
Biomedical Health Sciences |
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Blake Rowe (2025) |
NCAA in 200 Back |
Finance |
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Adele Sands (2025) |
NIC in 1650 Free |
Kinesiology |
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Campbell Scofield (2025) |
NCAA in 200 Fly |
Biological Engineering |
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Kaitlin Simons (2025) |
Zones on 3-Meter & Platform |
Biomedical Engineering |
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Raymond Whittaker (2025) |
NIC in 100 & 200 Breast |
Electrical Engineering |
Hannah Hill, Kate Mouser, Reagan Mattice, Ruth Anne McCranie, Blake Rowe, Kaitlin Simons, Kaden Springfield, Raymond Whittaker, Miller and Welsh join Wright as multi-year CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. Simons was also recognized in June as a second-team Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar by the EDU Ledger
Unlike Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten, freshmen are eligible for the CSCAA academic honor. Biko Hooper-Haviland earned Scholar All-America accolades after breaking the program record in the 200 butterfly during his freshman season.
Purdue had nine student-athletes this year earn all three academic honors – Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (3.7+ GPA for 2025-26 school year), CSCAA Scholar All-America (3.5+ GPA for 2025-26 school year) and Academic All-Big Ten (3.0+ cumulative GPA). Big Ten Distinguished Scholars will be announced next week.
QUADRUPLE ACADEMIC HONORS FOR 2025-26
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, Academic All-District, CSCAA Scholar All-America, Academic All-Big Ten
• Lara Phipps
• Kaden Springfield
• Zach Welsh
• Daryn Wright
TRIPLE ACADEMIC HONORS FOR 2025-26 (3 Boilermaker above plus…)
Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, CSCAA Scholar All-America, Academic All-Big Ten
• Dylan Burau (Academic All-District vs. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar)
• Hannah Hill
• Ruth Anne McCranie
• Keira Kask
• Ana Rojas (Academic All-District vs. Scholar All-America)
• Adele Sands
• Campbell Scofield (Academic All-District vs. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar)
• Raymond Whittaker
Purdue Swimming & Diving earned 48 Academic All-Big Ten (26 women, 22 men) and 17 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (11 women, 3 men) honors for the 2025-26 school year. Boilermakers at the pool accounted for 62% of Purdue Athletics’ Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the winter sports season and 31% of the department’s Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for the school year.