Hokie ClubGREENSBORO, N.C. – Junior Heather Savage of the Virginia Tech women’s swimming and diving team has been recognized as the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year, announced Wednesday afternoon by the conference office. Savage highlights the 2012 All-ACC Academic Women’s Swimming and Diving Team consisting of 40 student-athletes.
“We are very proud of Heather and appreciate the ACC in recognizing her,” commented head coach Ned Skinner. “Heather gives 100 percent in everything she does in life and she has evolved into an incredible student-athlete. Heather Savage makes everyone around her better and she is a true role model for our program and athletic department.”
At the 2012 ACC Championships in her home pool, Savage touched the wall in the 100 butterfly with a conference-record 52.13 to win her first ACC title. At the NCAA Championships, she finished in seventh place in the event to earn All-American honors and earn 12 points to help the H2Okies finish with their highest placing in school history. Savage, a native of Canandaigua, N.Y., is majoring in human nutrition, foods, and exercise.
In addition to Savage being named Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Tech has 10 student-athletes named to the men’s and women’s All-ACC Academic team. Two from the women’s side, including Savage and junior diver Logan Kline and eight from the men’s side which is the most out of any school on the list. Senior Blake Trabuchi-Downey, junior Gregory Mahon, freshman Kyle Butts, junior Logan Shinholser, senior Matt Baumler, sophomore Nick Tremols, sophomore Ryan Hawkins and junior Zach McGinnis all earned the honors for the men.
“We are very proud of our women and men named to the All-ACC Academic team. Each one of these recipients live their life for our program in the classroom and in the pool and we appreciate the ACC for recognizing their efforts, as well. Further, for our men to once again attain the largest amount of recipients for the Team is something that we are very proud of.”
Trabuchi-Downey, the 2012 ACC Postgraduate Scholarship winner, is one of two four-time All-ACC Academic honorees between the men and women on the list. This is the third year for Mahon, Shinholser and Baumler, while Tremols, Hawkins and McGinnis are all two-time honorees. This is also the second career honor for Kline, as she transferred from Indiana where she was named to the Academic All-Big Ten team a year ago.
Combining the men and women, the H2Okies have the fourth-highest total of student-athletes on the all-academic team. Virginia topped the list with 17, while Florida State and North Carolina trailed with 12 and 11, respectively.
To be eligible for All-ACC Academic team consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during their academic career.
2012 All-ACC Academic Women’s Swimming & Diving Team
| Meg Anderson @ | Clemson | Jr. | Early Childhood Education |
| Christine Wixted | Duke | So. | Undeclared |
| Jessica Lyden @ | Duke | Sr. | Psychology |
| Ariel Rittenhouse | Florida State | Jr. | Communications |
| Kelsey Goodman @ | Florida State | So. | Family & Child Sciences |
| Stephanie Sarandos # | Florida State | Sr. | Exercise Science |
| Julia Henkel @ | Florida State | So. | Business |
| Victoria Richmond | Florida State | Sr. | Marketing/Finance |
| Kaitlyn Dressel | Florida State | Fr. | Exercise Science |
| Melissa Cooper | Florida State | So. | Psychology |
| Keren Siebner | Georgia Tech | Sr. | Industrial Engineering |
| Jordan Evans | Georgia Tech | Sr. | Management |
| Virginia Glover # | Maryland | Sr. | Communications |
| Megan Lafferty | Maryland | Jr. | Criminology |
| Carolyn Fittin | Maryland | Fr. | Undecided |
| Alexa Hamilton # | Maryland | Sr. | Communications |
| Victoria Cassidy @ | Maryland | So. | Undecided |
| Amy Halligan | Maryland | So. | Journalism |
| Kara McCormack | Miami | Fr. | Math |
| Dana Hatic | Miami | Sr. | Journalism and Political Science |
| Miffy Henley @ | NC State | Jr. | Parks, Recreation & Tourism Management |
| Hannah Freyman | NC State | Fr. | Undecided |
| Danielle Siverling | North Carolina | Fr. | Undecided |
| Laura Moriarty | North Carolina | Sr. | Exercise and Sport Science |
| Sarah Tanner # | North Carolina | Sr. | History |
| Jackie Rudolph | North Carolina | Jr. | History |
| Katherine Rechsteiner @ | North Carolina | So. | Chemistry |
| Ellen Williamson | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Emily Dicus | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Charlotte Clarke | Virginia | Jr. | Undeclared |
| Alison Haulsee | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Kelly Flynn # | Virginia | Sr. | Biology |
| Emily Lloyd @ | Virginia | So. | Undeclared |
| Christine Olson @ | Virginia | Jr. | Economics |
| Erika Stewart | Virginia | Sr. | Sociology |
| Kelly Offutt | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Lauren Perdue @ | Virginia | Jr. | Anthropology |
| Shaun Casey | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Logan Kline | Virginia Tech | Jr. | Biology |
| Heather Savage | Virginia Tech | Jr. | Human Nutrition Foods and Exercise |
2012 All-ACC Academic Men’s Swimming & Diving Team
| Chris Dart % | Clemson | Sr. | Communications |
| Piotr Safronczyk | Duke | GS | Markets & Management Studies |
| Ted Minturn | Duke | Jr. | Sociology |
| Kevin Rogers | Florida State | Fr. | Sport Management |
| Mark Weber @ | Florida State | Jr. | Sport Management |
| Michael Neubacher @ | Florida State | Sr. | Sport Management |
| Nicholas Klein # | Florida State | Jr. | Interdisciplinary Social Science |
| Thomas Neubacher @ | Florida State | So. | Sport Management |
| Andrew Kosic | Georgia Tech | Fr. | Chemical & Biomedical Engineering |
| Anton Lagerqvist @ | Georgia Tech | So. | Industrial Engineering |
| Brandon Makinson # | Georgia Tech | Jr. | Aerospace Engineering |
| Elliott Brockelbank | Georgia Tech | Fr. | International Affairs |
| Eric Chiu | Georgia Tech | Jr. | Industrial Design |
| Nico Van Duijn | Georgia Tech | Fr. | Electrical Engineering |
| Andrew Relihan @ | Maryland | Sr. | Education |
| David Speese | Maryland | Fr. | Undecided |
| Brett Nagle | North Carolina | Jr. | Communication Studies |
| Brock Park | North Carolina | Sr. | Politcal Science |
| David MacDonald | North Carolina | Sr. | Communication Studies |
| Dominick Glavich | North Carolina | Fr. | Nursing |
| JT Stilley @ | North Carolina | So. | Business Administration |
| Patrick Myers | North Carolina | Fr. | Business Administration |
| Brandon Kingston # | NC State | Jr. | Human Biology |
| Hudson Rains | NC State | Jr. | Mathematics |
| Ivan Kopas | NC State | Jr. | Electrical Engineering |
| Jonathan Boffa @ | NC State | So. | Graphic Design |
| Briggy Imbriglia @ | Virginia | Sr. | Economics |
| David Ingraham | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| David Karasek # | Virginia | GS | Education |
| Jakob Kolod | Virginia | Fr. | Undeclared |
| Nathaniel Hart | Virginia | So. | Electrical Engineering |
| Taylor Grey @ | Virginia | So. | Undeclared |
| Blake Trabuchi-Downey % | Virginia Tech | Sr. | Biology |
| Greg Mahon # | Virginia Tech | Jr. | Mining Engineering |
| Kyle Butts | Virginia Tech | Fr. | Finance |
| Logan Shinholser # | Virginia Tech | Jr. | Chemical Engineering |
| Matthew Baumler # | Virginia Tech | Sr. | Hospitality Tourism Management |
| Nicholas Tremols @ | Virginia Tech | So. | Communication |
| Virginia Tech | So. | Architecture | |
| Zach McGinnis @ | Virginia Tech | Jr. | Politcal Science |