RICHMOND, Va.  Led by first-team honoree Morgan Nielsen, Western Colorado swimming and diving earned five individual honors for the Spring 2025 term on the College Swim Coaches Association of America's (CSCAA) Scholar All-America list, released Wednesday, July 9 by the organization.

First-team student-athletes must have earned at least a 3.50 grade point average in the spring term and must have participated in the national championship meet. Second-team honorees have the same academic requirement and must have achieved a provisional 'B' time standard for the national meet or earned their way into the diving qualification meet.

Nielsen qualified for the NCAA Division II championship meet in four events, posting career-best times in all four while setting school records in the 500-, 1,000-, and 1,650-yard freestyle events. She earned a perfect 4.00 GPA in the spring, and on March 1 was named a College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) DII Academic All-District selection. The sophomore biology major was also voted to the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference All-Academic First Team.

A second-team CSCAA Scholar All-America swimmer, Makenna Lambert achieved the NCAA provisional B cut in the 200 free at the RMAC championship meet. She, too, was voted to the RMAC All-Academic First Team.

Leah Wagner earned second-team Scholar All-America inclusion by swimming to the B cut in the 200 breaststroke at the RMAC championship.

Two of Western's divers earned trips to the NCAA DII Qualification Meet and both, Chloe Brown (3.89) and Alexandra Wallis (3.85), posted the required GPAs in the spring to earn second-team Scholar All-America honors.