{"id":234359,"date":"2026-07-03T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234359\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:44:14","slug":"crimson-hawks-recognized-by-cscaa-for-academic-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234359\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Hawks Recognized by CSCAA for Academic Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>INDIANA, Pa. \u2013 The IUP men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s swimming and diving teams were recognized for their excellence in the classroom this week as the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced its Scholar All-America Teams and Individual Scholar All-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Both Crimson Hawks programs earned Scholar All-America Team recognition after posting team grade-point averages above 3.0 during the spring semester. IUP was among 714 teams from 418 institutions across all NCAA, NAIA and NJCAA divisions to receive the honor.<\/p>\n<p>The IUP women&#8217;s team, which finished as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference runner-up during the 2025-26 season, recorded a 3.34 team GPA. The squad was represented by two CSCAA Individual Scholar All-Americans in <a href=\"https:\/\/iupathletics.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/kasha-stokes\/10300\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10300\" target=\"_blank\">Kasha Stokes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iupathletics.com\/sports\/womens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/tina-cudina\/10293\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10293\" target=\"_blank\">Tina Cudina<\/a>. Stokes also capped off a standout season by earning two All-America honors at the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships, while Cudina was recognized as a second-team CSCAA Individual Scholar All-American after meeting the organization&#8217;s academic and competitive standards.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Hawks men&#8217;s team posted a 3.25 team GPA to earn Scholar All-America Team recognition. Junior Tyler &#8220;Ty&#8221; Uhlig represented the program as a CSCAA Individual Scholar All-American after recording a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 while achieving an NCAA Division II &#8220;B&#8221; qualifying standard.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 2,230 swimmers and divers across the country earned CSCAA Individual Scholar All-America recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The annual CSCAA Scholar All-America awards recognize programs and student-athletes who have demonstrated excellence both in competition and in the classroom, highlighting the balance between academic achievement and athletic success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; INDIANA, Pa. \u2013 The IUP men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s swimming and diving teams were recognized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-234359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}