The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Texas trio selected to Capital One Academic All-America Team
06.11.2015 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Rowing, Women's Swimming and Diving, Student Services
Diving’s Cory Bowersox named to the first team, while Rowing’s Jessica Glennie and Diving’s Emma Ivory-Ganja earn third-team honors.
AUSTIN, Texas – The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday the selections of Texas junior diver Cory Bowersox, UT senior diver Emma Ivory-Ganja and Texas senior rower Jessica Glennie to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Team.
Bowersox earned a first-team selection in the Men's At-Large division after earning third-team Academic All-America honors last season as a sophomore. First-time honorees Ivory-Ganja and Glennie were named to the third team in the Women's At-Large division. Texas places three Longhorns on the Academic All-America Men's/Women's At-Large Teams for the first time since 2008.
The At-Large division includes student-athletes from the following sports: women's rowing, women's bowling, fencing, women's field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, men's volleyball, water polo and men's wrestling.
Bowersox becomes Texas' sixth two-time Academic All-American in the Men's At-Large division and its first since golfer Jeff Fahrenbruch completed the feat (1996-97). Bowersox joins Sam Arieff (1993-95) as the only Texas men's divers to earn multiple selections to the Capital One Academic All-America Team. Bowersox is the first Longhorn to earn a first-team Men's At-Large selection to the Capital One Academic All-America Team since swimmer David Kahn in 2004.
One of 16 men's swimmers and divers named to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Team, Bowersox carries a 3.85 GPA in mechanical engineering. The Fairfax, Virginia, native is a two-time Academic All-Big 12 first-team selection and a CSCAA Scholar All-American. On the diving boards, Bowersox is a three-time All-American and three-time Big 12 champion who helped Texas win its 11th NCAA team title in March.
A Rhodes Scholarship recipient, Glennie is one of only four rowers on the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Team. She becomes the third Texas rower ever selected to a Capital One Academic All-America Team and the first since 2004. The Auckland, New Zealand native carried a 3.96 GPA in UT's five-year architecture program.
Last year, Glennie received the Big 12 Conference's highest honor, the Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award. She is a two-time CRCA National Scholar-Athlete and a three-time Academic All-Big 12 first-team selection.
On the water, Glennie helped Texas boats to three Big 12 individual titles, including one last month at the Big 12 Championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She will begin coursework at Oxford University this October.
Ivory-Ganja is the first Texas women's diver named to the Capital One Academic All-America Team since Kathryn Kelly in 2009. One of 14 women's swimmers and divers named to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Team, Ivory-Ganja carried a 3.84 GPA in sport management.
A native of The Woodlands, Texas, Ivory-Ganja is a first-team selection to the Academic All-Big 12 Team, a CSCAA Scholar All-American and a two-time University Honors member. A six-time All-American at UCLA and Texas, Ivory-Ganja finished as the 2014 NCAA runner-up on platform in her first season at Texas.
Bowersox, Ivory-Ganja and Glennie became eligible for Academic All-America nominations last month by way of their selections to the Capital One Academic All-District Team. Capital One Academic All-District nominees must be a starter or key reserve on their respective teams, carry a minimum 3.3 cumulative GPA and have reached sophomore standing at their respective institutions.
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