Denison University junior women's swimming standout
Kristen Hohl (Winfield, Ill./Wheaton North) has
been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America®
first-team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors
of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday (June 12).
This marks Hohl's second appearance as an Academic
All-American. She was named to the second-team as a sophomore
in 2007. This is her first, first-team appearance and it
marks the 51st Academic All-America from Denison.
Hohl anchored a Denison team that would go on to place third at
the 2008 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championship in
Oxford, Ohio. She swam the freestyle leg on the Big Red's
national champion 200 medley relay team which broke the NCAA record
set by Denison's 2001 relay team. She also went on to place
fourth in the 50 and 100 freestyle while swimming on two
second-place relay teams.
At the conference level Hohl won four North Coast Athletic
Conference titles at the 2008 championships. She boasts a
3.98 grade point average and is majoring in biology. Hohl advanced
to the national ballot for Academic All-America after earning
first-team Academic All-District IV honors.
Created in 1952 by the College Sports Information Directors
of America (CoSIDA), the ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-America® Teams Program is a premier, nationwide college
scholar-athlete awards program. It recognizes 816 outstanding
student-athletes annually in Division I, II, III and NAIA covering
all NCAA championship sports.
