Eight Athletes Earn CSC Academic All-District Recognition

GREENWOOD, Ind. – On Tuesday, College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced its swim and dive Academic All-District nominees, recognizing four members of the Dartmouth women's team and four members of the Dartmouth men's team.

To be recognized, student-athletes must be sophomores with a 3.50 GPA, have competed in 75% of their team's competitions, finished top eight at a conference championship, or represented their team at the National Championship.

Juniors Carinn Bethea, Kathy Jia, Maggie Lambdin, and sophomore Klara Johnsson Stjernstroem all earned the recognition for the women.

Bethea scored A-final points in two events for the Big Green at this year's Ivy League Championship. She placed eighth in the 200-yard freestyle and fifth in the 100-yard freestyle.

The junior also impressed through Dartmouth's regular season. She won three events vs. Columbia, the 400-yard freestyle relay, the 100-yard freestyle, and swam a personal best in the 200-yard freestyle.

At the Golden Grizzly Classic, Bethea swam multiple personal bests; a 23.19 in the 50-yard freestyle, a 50.25 as the lead in the 400-yard freestyle relay, a 49.86 in the 100-yard freestyle, and a 50.04 in the 100-yard freestyle prelim swim. She also swam four school bests at the meet, in both the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle prelim and final swims.

Throughout the course of the year, Bethea tallied 15 total wins, including the three vs. the Lions and earning a first-place finish in five of her six races at the Tate Ramsden Invitational.

Lambdin finished in the A-final of the 3-meter dive, claiming sixth overall, but she impressed on the board throughout the season. She began her junior campaign with a fifth- place finish on the 1-meter and a second-place finish on the 3-meter at the Tate Ramsden Invitational, before winning the 3-meter just a week later when the Big Green faced off against Harvard and Cornell.

At the Golden Grizzly Classic, Lambdin secured five-top three finishes, including winning the 3-meter and finishing third on the 10-meter.

Lambdin also added a win in the 3-meter at Penn.

Jia also impressed at the Ivy League Championship for the Big Green, finishing sixth overall in the 100-yard backstroke. Throughout the season, she earned 11 top three finishes.

She started the season with a second-place finish in both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke, including swimming a school best in the 100-yard, 1:04.43.

Against the Crimson and Big Red, Jia shaved nearly a second off her time, swimming another school best in the 100-yard breaststroke, winning the event with a time of 1:03.64. Jia finished in the top three in all but one swim at the Tate Ramsden Invitational, including helping the Big Green win the 200-yard medley relay, winning the 100-yard breaststroke, and the 200-yard individual medley.

Johnsson Sternstrom also impressed during her sophomore campaign, opening the season with a sixth-place finish on the 1-meter. She followed with a third place finish the next weekend vs. the Crimson and Big Red.

She took third overall on the 3-meter dive at the Golden Grizzly Classic, before finishing the regular season with a third-place finish and fifth-place finish vs. the Columbia Lions.

On the men's side, seniors Colton Rasmussen and Everett Tai and sophomores McCoy Lyman and Jacob Turner earned the recognition for the Big Green.

Rasmussen opened the season with four top ten finishes against Brown and Princeton, including swimming two school bests, a 45.56 as the leadoff in the 400-yard freestyle relay, and a 45.45 in the 100-yard freestyle.

He followed with four more top ten finishes against Harvard and Cornell, adding two more school bests to his resume: a 45.05 in the 100-yard freestyle and a 22.69 as the leadoff in the 200-yard medley relay.

Rasmussen earned two first place finishes at the Tate Ramsden Invitational, swimming as the anchor in the 200-yard freestyle relay and earning the win in the 200-yard freestyle. At the Ivy League Championship, he swam four school bests and added a personal best in the 200-yard freestyle, swimming a 1:38.23.

Tai recorded two top three finishes to open the season against Harvard and Cornell, finishing second on the 1-meter and third on the 3-meter. He put up similar scores at the Golden Grizzly Classic, earning second on the 1-meter, third on the 10-meter, and third on the 3-meter.

He won the 3-meter at the Tate Ramsden Invitational before scoring B-Final points for the Big Green at the Ivy League Championship, finishing 14^th on the 1-meter and 13^th on the 3-meter.

Lyman impressed in his sophomore campaign, capping the season with a trip to the NCAA Championship.

He started the season with two top five finishes against Brown and Princeton before winning the 3-meter against Harvard and Cornell. Lyman finished second at the Golden Grizzly Classic in the 3-meter and was second heading into the 1-meter.

At the Ivy League Championship, Lyman finished 13^th overall on the 1-meter ad third overall on the 3-meter, punching his ticket to the National Championship. He later finished 35^th and 51^st overall.

Turner impressed from the beginning of the season, swimming a school best in the 400-yard individual medley to earn the win, finishing in 3:55.43. He also added a win the following weekend in the 200-yard individual medley, also swimming a school best in the 200-yard breast stroke to finish second overall.

At the Golden Grizzly Classic, Turner dominated, swimming three personal bests and four school bests en route to three event wins: the 400-yard IM, 200-yard IM, and the 200-yard butterfly. He also added three wins at the Tate Ramsden Invitational before going on to swim three personal bests at the Ivy League Championship.

Turner finished third in the 400-yard IM thanks to a 3:44.39 personal best and ninth in the 200-yard IM, also with a personal best swim, 1:43.99.

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