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Eleven Retrievers Named to America East All-Academic Swimming and Diving Squad

2/22/2007

Tim Conway has earned All-Academic accolades in each of the last two seasons.

Katie Spohnholz was one of five Retrievers on the women's all-academic team.

Boston-Six men and five women represent 2007 America East champion UMBC on the America East All-Academic swimming and diving team, the conference announced Thursday.

The All-Academic Team is selected based on the student-athlete’s academic and athletic accomplishments. Academic achievement for consideration requires student-athletes to have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 entering the season. Athletic accomplishment standards vary by sport; for swimming and diving, student-athletes are required to be a top-three finisher at the conference championship.

Most Outstanding Female Diver Ashley Houghton highlights the women’s team. Houghton is joined by teammates Tina Cantwell, Carly Fitzpatrick, Katie Spohnholz and Daniele Surkovich.

Houghton, a senior, took home the gold in both diving competitions, while Cantwell, a sophomore, won both breaststroke events. Fitzpatrick, a junior, swam on UMBC’s second-place 200-free relay team, while Spohnholz took home silver in the 1-meter diving. Finally, Surkovich, a sophomore won the 50-free, placed second in the 100-free and swam on the winning 400-free, 800-free and 400-medley relays.

On the men’s side, senior Tim Conway and junior Scott Auchter both repeat on the all-academic teams. They are joined by sophomore Milos Djukic, junior Adam Eiben, senior Ryan Karrer and junior Joey Sementelli

Conway was a part of UMBC’s second-place 200-free and 200-medley relays, while Auchter took silver in both breaststroke events. Djukic took bronze in the 200-back and Eiben placed third in the 400-IM. Finally, Karrer took gold in the 1,650-free, while Sementelli won bronze in the mile.

The four-time America East champion UMBC men tied Binghamton six members on the all-academic team, most in the conference. On the women’s side, the Retrievers were the best-represented team, and overall UMBC had the most representatives of any school with 11. Binghamton was second with six.

Men’s All-Academic Swimming and Diving Team

Scott Auchter, UMBC

Tim Conway, UMBC

Milos Djukic, UMBC

Adam Eiben, UMBC

David Holmes, Binghamton

Ryan Karrer, UMBC

Alex Kissel, Stony Brook

Brian Koizim, Binghamton

Brian Koralewski, Binghamton

James Lands, Boston U.

Sean Lorenz, Binghamton

Nathan Richard, Maine

Ruslan Safarov, Stony Brook

Joey Sementelli, UMBC

Trevor Stone, Binghamton

Brenno Veranda, Binghamton

Women’s All-Academic Swimming and Diving Team

Lidija Breznikar, Boston U.

Tina Cantwell, UMBC

Shana Dege, New Hampshire

Jessie Ellis-Alcaide, Maine

Carly Fitzpatrick, UMBC

Kary Goodman, New Hampshire

Ashley Houghton, UMBC

Colleen Miller, Maine

Marina Morie, Boston U.

Christina Ruggiero, Boston U.

Deanna Petchonka, New Hampshire

Tal Shpaizer, Maine

Katie Spohnholz, UMBC

Daniele Surkovich, UMBC

Christine Tartaglia, New Hampshire