Rising senior, Olympic silver medalist, and two-time defending NCAA champion Andrew Capobianco has been selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® men’s at-large team, the publication announced on Friday afternoon.
The at-large teams for the Google Cloud Academic All-America program include the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis and water polo for both men and women, as well as beach volleyball, bowling, field hockey and rowing for women, and volleyball and wrestling for men.
Capobianco, an exercise science major, was selected to the second team after earning third-team honors in 2019, his last season of competition before sitting out the 2020 season as an Olympic redshirt.
The Holly Springs, N.C., native enjoyed a banner season in 2021. He was named co-Big Ten Diver of the Championships after winning the 1-Meter Springboard crown, finishing fourth overall in the 3-Meter Springboard, and ninth off the 10-Meter Platform at the Big Ten Championships.
He was then named Big Ten Diver of the Year for the second time in his career (2019) after winning the 3-Meter Springboard competition at the NCAA Championships. He also scored points for Indiana with a fourth-place finish on the 1-Meter Springboard and took 11th on the 10-Meter Platform.
His collegiate accomplishments, plus his international successes, earned him co-IU Male Athlete of the Year prior to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. In Tokyo, Capobianco paired up with former Indiana teammate Mike Hixon to win silver in the 3-Meter Synchro competition. He also claimed 10th overall in the individual 3-Meter Springboard event.
Among the 47 student-athletes selected to the Academic All-America® Division I At-Large teams, 21 carry a 4.0 grade-point average. The 15 members of the men’s at-large team carry a 3.912 average GPA.
FIRST TEAM
Sport                    Name                                   School                  Yr.         Major
Swimming          Nick Albiero                       Louisville             Sr.          Health & Human Performance
Gymnastics        Jack Baldwin                      Penn State         Sr.          Mechanical Engineering
Golf                       Ford Clegg                          Miss. State         Jr.          Finance
Lacrosse              Phil Goss                             Brown                  Sr.          Economics & Political Science
Volleyball            Miki Jauhiainen                BYU                       Gr.         Computer Science
Swimming          Eric Knowles                      N.C. State           Sr.          Materials Science Engineering
Ice Hockey          Jack LaFontaine                Minnesota          Sr.          English
Swimming          Derek Maas                       Alabama              Sr.          Biology (Premed)
Swimming          Micah Oh                            Navy                     Sr.          Honors Applied Mathematics
Tennis                  Jannik Opitz                       Western Mich.  Gr.         Applied Statistics
Swimming          Nicholas Perera                Alabama              Jr.          Mechanical Engineering
Water Polo         Nicolas Saveljic                 UCLA                    Gr.         Education
Tennis                  Carl Söderlund                  Virginia                Gr.         Commerce
Wrestling            Anthony Valencia            Arizona State    Sr.          Business (Communication)
Gymnastics        Shane Wiskus                    Minnesota          Sr.          Business & Marketing Education
SECOND TEAM
Sport                    Name                                   School                  Yr.         Major
Water Polo         Tyler Abramson                Stanford              Sr.          Management Science & Engineering
Wrestling            Myles Amine                     Michigan             Gr.         Business Administration
Swimming          Cade Auerbach                 Alabama              Sr.          Finance
Wrestling            Paul Bianchi                       Little Rock          Sr.          Sport Management
Swimming          Ben Bramley                      Purdue                 Jr.          Finance
Swimming          Andrew Capobianco      Indiana                Jr.          Exercise Science
Lacrosse              Christian Daniel                Navy                     Sr.          Astrophysics
Lacrosse              Conor Gaffney                  Lehigh                  Gr.         Mechanical Engineering
Lacrosse              Chris Gray                           North Carolina  Sr.          Management & Society
Wrestling            Shane Griffith                   Stanford              Jr.          Science, Technology & Society
Wrestling            Zach Hartman                   Bucknell              Jr.          Biology (Pre-Med)
Ice Hockey          Austin Kamer                    Michigan State Sr.          Chemical Engineering
Wrestling            Nick Lee                              Penn State         Sr.          Health Policy & Administration
Ice Hockey          Strauss Mann                    Michigan             Jr.          Business Administration
Tennis                  Charlie Morkel                  UNC Asheville   Sr.          Mathematics & Economics
Tennis                  Sam Riffice                         Florida                 Jr.          Political Science
Tennis                  Andrew Ton                       Navy                     Sr.          Quantitative Economics
THIRD TEAM
Sport                    Name                                   School                  Yr.         Major
Lacrosse              Alex Akins                           Detroit Mercy   Gr.         MBA
Lacrosse              Michael Altmann             Hofstra                Gr.         Management
Swimming          Nate Biondi                        Cal                         Sr.          American Studies
Tennis                  Axel Geller                         Stanford              Sr.          Economics
Wrestling            Hayden Hidlay                  N.C. State           Gr.         Business Admin.
Fencing                Finn Hossfeld                    Duke                     So.         Public Policy
Wrestling            Mason Kauffman             Northern Ill.       Sr.          Kinesiology
Golf                       David Laskin                      Arizona                Sr.          Finance
Fencing                Nestor Levin                      Air Force             Jr.          Engineering Chemistry
Swimming          Alex Liang                           Stanford              Sr.          Economics
Gymnastics        Andrew Lyubovsky          William & Mary Sr.          Computer Science & Neuroscience
Tennis                  Francisco Rocha               Mid. Tenn. St.   Jr.          Economics & Business Administration
Tennis                  Fermin Ruiz Crespo         Alabama A&M  Sr.          Civil Engineering
Tennis                  Pascal Wagemaker          Ga. Southern     Sr.          Mechanical Engineering
Skiing                   Joey Young                         Colorado             Sr.          Finance & Accounting