MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – The Wheaton College (Mass.) women's swimming & diving team boasted 14 members being named to the New England Women's & Men's Athletic Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Academic All-Conference Team, it was announced by the league.
Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2024 fall semester, achieved second year academic status at their institution, and been a member of the varsity team for the entire season.
Seniors Alexa DiCenso (Methuen, Mass.), Reese Hartmann (East Grand Rapids, Mich.), Madison King (Wethersfield, Conn.), Allie Taylor (Raleigh, N.C.) and Katie Walz (Bellevue, Wash.) all earn the honor for the third straight season. Senior Caris Mann (Hanover, Mass.) and juniors Talia Dalton (Andover, Minn.), Emma Claire Lambert-Shemo (Cleveland, Ohio), and Vivian Van Holland (Excelsior, Minn.) were selected for the second year in a row, while seniors Morgen Coughlin-Doyle (Topsham, Maine) and Allison Kramer (Irvine, Calif.) earn the accolade for the first time along with sophomores Grace Chin (Blooming Grove, N.Y.), Kaleigh Morton (Milford, Conn.) and Anna St. Jean (Alexandria, Va.), who were both chosen in their first year of eligibility.
DiCenso established four personal-best times during the season for the Lyons. The senior Biochemistry major finished ninth in the 'A' finals of the 200-yard butterfly at the NEWMAC Championship to go with a pair of 16th-place showings in the 200 and 400-yard individual medley races. Hartmann won the bronze medal in both the 100 and 200-yard backstroke events at the NEWMAC Championship. The senior Film and New Media Studies major also competed in three events at the NCAA Championship, highlighted by a 23rd-place effort in the 100-yard backstroke preliminaries. King posted three personal-record marks for Wheaton during the season. The senior Secondary Education and History double major posted five top-five finishes during the season. Taylor recorded a personal-best swim in the 100-yard backstroke for the Lyons. The senior Elementary Education major registered 13 top-five finishes during the year, including a runner-up performance in the 200-yard freestyle against Mount Holyoke College. Walz scored in three different events at the NEWMAC Championship for Wheaton. The senior Environmental Science major placed ninth in the 50-yard freestyle, 10th in the 100-yard freestyle and 14th in the 100-yard butterfly.
Mann turned in five personal-record swims during the season. The senior Secondary Education and English major impressed at the NEWMAC Championship meet as well, placing ninth in the 200-yard breaststroke and 11th in the 100-yard breaststroke. Dalton claimed silver at the NEWMAC Championship in the 1650-yard freestyle, in addition to placing seventh in the 500-yard freestyle and 11th in the 200-yard freestyle for the Lyons. The junior Bioinformatics & Computer Science major was the team's third-leading scorer for the season with 636.20 points. Lambert-Shemo placed sixth in both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke races at the NEWMAC Championship as well as 20th in the 200-yard individual medley. The junior Neuroscience major recorded a pair of personal-record times during the season for Wheaton. Van Holland finished sixth in the 1650-yard freestyle to go with an eighth-place showing in the 500-yard freestyle and was 12th in the 200-yard freestyle at the NEWMAC Championship. The junior Mathematics and Secondary Education major boasted five personal-record times during the campaign for the Lyons.
Coughlin-Doyle finished third on the three-meter board and eighth on the one-meter at the NEWMAC Championship. The senior Environmental Science broke three school records during the year and qualified for NCAA Regionals in the first two weeks of the season. Kramer established three personal-record marks during the season for Wheaton. The senior Finance and International Relations major put together four top-five efforts in her final campaign as a dual-sport student-athlete. Chin tallied points at the NEWMAC Championship, placing 20th in the 200-yard freestyle and in the 400-yard individual medley for the Lyons. The sophomore Business and Management major recorded four personal-best times during the season. Morton tallied points in three different events for Wheaton at the NEWMAC Championship, placing 13th in the 200-yard backstroke and 14th in both the 200 and 400-yard individual medley races. The sophomore Elementary Education major showed great improvement throughout the season, posting seven personal-record times. St Jean finished ninth in the 200-yard freestyle and was part of the Lyons' runner-up 800-yard freestyle relay squad at the NEWMAC Championship. The sophomore Public Health major recorded six personal-best marks during the season.
Wheaton finished the dual-meet season with a 7-4 record, before placing third as a team at the NEWMAC Championship.
