Wallwork, Gilchrist-Scott Named Academic All-District by ESPN the Magazine
SWARTHMORE, Pa. -- Swarthmore tennis player Rachel Wallwork '10 and swimmer Doug Glichrist-Scott '09 were recently named to ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II Team, as voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Wallwork is a first-team selection in the At-Large College Division while Gilchrist-Scott earned second-team status.
The District II College Division consists of all NCAA Division II and Division III, and NAIA, colleges and universities in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. To be nominated for the team, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average and a starter or significant reserve on his or her team. The At-Large eligible sports are women's bowling, women's crew, men's and women's fencing, women's field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rifle, men's and women's skiing, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's volleyball, men's and women's water polo and men's wrestling
Wallwork (Washington, D.C. / Georgetown Day) makes the All-District team for the second year in a row, having been a third-team selection in 
2008. Wallwork, a psychology major, is the two-time Centennial Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Year. Wallwork, the eighth-ranked player in the Atlantic South region, concluded the 2008-09 season with an overall record of 12-5. She competed in her second NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Individual Championships this past weekend, falling in the round of 32 by Leslie Hansen of M.I.T.
Wallwork has been placed on the Conference Academic Honor twice and was named to the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Star team last spring. On March 9, Wallwork defeated Emory's Loren McManigle at No. 1 singles--McManigle went on to win the NCAA Division III Singles Championship in May.
Wallwork will now move onto the national ballot, to be announced in two weeks.
Gichrist-Scott (Canton, Ohio / Hoover) capped his swimming career in grand fashion, broke five school records and a Centennial Conference record on the way to winning seven medals at the Centennial Conference Swimming Championships February 20-22. The team captain collected seven medals on the weekend, breaking a 12-year old Conference and championship meet record (along with his own school mark) with a 46.48 time during the preliminaries of the 100-yard freestyle. He went on to earn a bronze medal in the event, clocking in at 47.20 during the finals.
Gilchrist-Scott, a mathematics major, also set a school record in the 50-yard backstroke (24.66) as the lead leg in the silver-medal 200-yard medley, and another new mark in the 50-yard freestyle (21.39); the senior earned the bronze in both the 50-yard free and the 100-yard backstroke. He has been placed on the Centennial Conference Honor Roll and named an Academic All-Star by the Philadelphia Inquirer three straight years.