University of Richmond Athletics
Kobelja & Titley Named To A-10 All-Academic Team
03/18/2014 | Women's Swimming & Diving, Academic Services
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The 2014 Atlantic 10 Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Academic All-Conference teams were announced on Tuesday, comprised of student-athletes who were selected based on their performance in the pool, as well as in the classroom. To be nominated, swimmers and divers must have a GPA of 3.0 or better (on a 4.0 scale) for their entire academic career.
Richmond placed a pair on the squad, with senior Mali Kobelja (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and junior Allison Titley (Richmond, Va. / St. Gertrude) making the list.
Kobelja earned her third-straight Most Outstanding Swimmer Award at the A-10 Championships, the most ever for a female swimmer in league history. She was recently awarded the Leslie Sessoms Booker Award, one of the four individual awards given by Westhampton College, the women's college within the coeducational University of Richmond. She won two of her three individual events, finishing second in her third and raced one leg of four of Richmond's five team relay victories in 2014. She has made her third Academic All-Conference team, the most a student-athlete can earn in the league.
Titley was fourth in the 200 Freestyle at the A-10 Championships and swam one leg of RIchmond's 800 Freestyle relay, which the Spiders won. She was the 2012 Most Outstanding Rookie at the A-10 Championships and studies economics at UR.
Duquesne's Line Lovberg, George Mason's Melissa Davis and Paige Impink, George Washington's Caroline Myers, Rhode Island' Emily Thomesen, St. Bonaventure's Jeanette Dietrich and Saint Louis' Courtney Lagestee and Morgan Peterson complete the Women's Swimming and Diving Academic All-Conference team.
The Spiders captured the 2014 A-10 Championship, their fourth straight and 12th of the last 13.
2014 Women's Academic All-Conference Team
Line Lovberg, Duquesne
Melissa Davis, George Mason
Paige Impink, George Mason
Caroline Myers, George Washington
Emily Thomesen, Rhode Island
Mali Kobelja, Richmond
Allison Titley, Richmond
Jeanette Dietrich, St. Bonaventure
Courtney Lagestee, Saint Louis
Morgan Peterson, Saint Louis
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