MIAC Release

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Four Saint John's University swimming student-athletes earned 2018-19 Winter and Spring Academic All-MIAC honors on Thursday, June 27.

Those honored (listed alphabetically) include:

-Sophomore Eli Greenblat (Plymouth, Minn./Wayzata), an accounting major with a 3.77 GPA;
-Junior Ryan Pauley (Columbus, Neb.), an integrative science major with a 3.76 GPA;
-Sophomore Joe Schwamm (Littleton, Colo./Mullen), an economics major with a 3.88 GPA;
-Senior Jacob Upton (Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson), a computer science and mathematics double-major with a 3.87 GPA.

Student-athletes must be a sophomore, junior or senior academically with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 on a 4.00 scale to qualify for Academic All-MIAC recognition. Athletically, swimming and diving student-athletes must place in the top 16 individually or participate on a relay team at the conference meet.

The Academic All-MIAC honor is the third consecutive for Upton, who was a member of SJU's fourth-place 800-yard freestyle relay team at the MIAC Championships in February. He also placed eighth in both the 200-yard breaststroke and 400-yard individual medley, and 10th in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Greenblat posted the best individual finish among the four honorees, fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke. He also touched the wall seventh in the 100-yard breaststroke and 10th in the 200-yard individual medley. 

Greenblat and Pauley were members of SJU's 200- and 400-yard medley relays, which finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Individually, Pauley claimed 10th in the 100-yard butterfly, 11th in the 500-yard freestyle and 13th in the 100-yard freestyle.

Schwamm competed in the B final for both breaststrokes, where he finished 11th (200-yard) and 12th (100-yard).

The Johnnies finished fifth out of eight teams, four points from fourth, at the MIAC Championships.