Swimming & Diving

Five SJC Swimmers Receive Regional All-Academic Honors

Posted: Jun 18, 2021

WESTON, Mass. - The 2021 New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) All-Academic Team has been announced and five Saint Joseph's College swimmers have been honored.

Senior Anthony Blatus (Dracut, Mass. / Greater Lowell Tech), juniors Alirose Beauregard (Dover, N.H. / Dover), Hannah Kibbin (Augusta, Maine / Cony), and Joseph Nichols (Tyngsborough Mass. / Tyngsborough), as well as freshman Shawn Perry (Plaistow, N.H. / Timberlane) have earned high academic accolades.

In order for a swimmer or diver to make the All-Academic Team, the student-athlete must have a semester GPA of 3.50 or higher. With 20 women's programs and 14 men's teams, a total of 195 student-athletes earned 2021 NEISDA All-Academic Team honors.

Founded in 1920, The New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) is a coach-run association made up of 21 Division III member institutions from 6 Conferences in New England.

NEISDA annually sponsors and administers a championship for those qualifying swimmers and divers in February. For more information go to www.NEISDA.com.

NEISDA All-Academic Team

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.