Complete CSCAA Scholar All-American Team Award winners

TACOMA, Wash. - The Pacific Lutheran University women's swimming team finished the spring semester with the nation's top grade point average, securing the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-American Team Award along with bragging rights as the "Academic National Champions". The Lutes headlined the CSCAA Scholar All-American Team Award winners, owning the top GPA out of the 731 teams from 441 institutions to secure the honor.

The Lutes finished the spring with a cumulative 3.85 GPA, one of just seven women's teams to achieve a GPA above 3.80. Division II Fairmont State University (W.V.) has the nation's second best GPA with a 3.84 followed by Division I institutions Stanford University (3.83) and the University of Toledo (3.82). Division II Lenoir-Rhyne College (3.81), Division I Harvard University (3.80), and NAIA Savannah College of Art & Design (3.80) round out the top seven nationally.

Pacific Lutheran is one of six Northwest Conference schools to secure CSCAA Scholar All-American Team status, joining Whitman College (3.64), Willamette University (3.53), George Fox University (3.41), Pacific University (3.37), and Whitworth University (3.23).

This winter, the Lutes won their seventh straight NWC dual meet title, finishing with a perfect 8-0 overall record and a 7-0 mark in conference duals. Winners of 26 consecutive dual meets, the Lutes placed runner-up at the 2022 NWC Championships, winning four relay titles and four individual titles with Jessica Ordaz earning NWC Freshman of the Meet and NWC Most Outstanding Swimmer. Ordaz would go on to compete at the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis in March.