Capobianco Named CoSIDA Academic All- American

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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