GAMBIER – The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) completed their ballots for top swimming and diving honors, and three Kenyon water stars gained recognition.
On the women’s side of the pool, Emmie Mirus and Crile Hart, recent Kenyon College graduates and members of the 2022 NCAA Division III national champion swimming and diving team, earned positions on the 2021-22 Academic All-America Women’s At-Large Team. For the men, Kenyon College junior Drew Albrecht was named a member of the NCAA Division III Academic All-America Men's At-Large Team.
After balloting at the national level, Mirus and Hart were selected by CoSIDA voters. Both Hart’s and Mirus’ path to the national honor began at the Academic All-District level in which a nominee had to be at least of sophomore standing and had to possess at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average. Once the Kenyon duo gained first-team positions on the Academic All-District Team, they became eligible for Academic All-America status.
Throughout the process, they were included in the CoSIDA At-Large pool, which, in addition to swimming and diving, included nominees from the sports of fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis, volleyball and several others.
Only 46 NCAA Division III students-athletes were selected for the honor, and that group was split into three teams. While both Mirus and Hart took spots among the 16-member first team, Hart was also the top vote-getter and deemed the 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-America Team Member of the Year. That honor has only been earned by three other women in the highly successful history of the Kenyon swimming and diving program.
The Academic All-America recognition was a first for Hart but the second for Mirus, who collected third-team honors following the 2019-20 season. During this past season, the pair helped the Kenyon swimming and diving team win the 2022 North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship, as well as the NCAA Division III Championship, the program’s NCAA record 24th national team title.
During that 2021-22 NCAA Championship meet, Hart won six event titles and set four records. That boosted her final collegiate career totals to 14 NCAA event titles, as well as the maximum 28 career College Swimming Coaches Association of American (CSCAA) All-America certificates. Additionally, Hart's career included two NCAA Division III Swimmer of the Year awards and three finalist nods for the Honda Athlete of the Year. She was a 19-time conference event champion, was twice named NCAC Swimmer of the Year and was voted Kenyon's 2021-22 Senior Athlete of the Year.
In the pool, Mirus won four NCAA Championship events this past season and had six top-three finishes. That brought her career collection to five NCAA Championship titles and 22 CSCAA All-America certificates. She’s also a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and a nine-time NCAC Championship event title winner.
On the men’s side, after being named an Academic All-District honoree last month, Albrecht advanced to the national ballot and earned his final nod among 45 national honorees.
A diver on the Owls' swimming team, Albrecht becomes the 19th member of the Kenyon swimming and diving program to earn the award. He's the first since Trevor Manz in 2017.
This past season, Albrecht, a native of Aurora, Ohio, placed second on the one-meter board at the North Coast Athletic Conference Championship. During the same meet, he placed third on the three-meter board. From there, he moved on to the NCAA Division III Regional Championship and qualified for his first-ever appearance in the NCAA Championship after logging an eighth-place finish in three-meter competition and a 15th-place finish in one-meter competition.
