Six Wolverines Earn CoSIDA Academic All-America Honors
8/6/2021 12:00:00 PM | General, Men's Basketball, Ice Hockey, Men's Soccer, Women's Gymnastics, Rowing, Women's Swimming & Diving, Water Polo, Wrestling, Academic Success Program
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Six University of Michigan student-athletes -- Myles Amine (wrestling, second team), Annika Hoffmann (rowing, first team), Maggie MacNeil (swimming, second team), Strauss Mann (ice hockey, second team), Maddie O'Reilly (water polo, third team), and Natalie Wojcik (women's gymnastics, second team) -- were named to the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I Men's and Women's At-Large teams, announced Friday (Aug. 6) by the College Sports Information Directors of American.
At-large sports for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program include fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis and water polo for both men and women, as well as beach volleyball, bowling, field hockey, and rowing for women, and volleyball and wrestling for men.
Amine, who used a late takedown to capture Olympic bronze in the 86kg/189-pound freestyle division Thursday (Aug. 5) in Tokyo, becomes the third Michigan wrestler to earn Academic All-America recognition, joining Eric Tannenbaum (2006, '07, '08) and Adam Coon (2018). He is a sport management master's student after earning his undergraduate degree in business administration in spring 2019. Named to the Academic All-America second team, Amine is also a four-time Academic All-Big Ten and NWCA All-Academic honoree and garnered Big Ten Distinguished Scholar accolades this year.
Amine is a four-time NCAA All-American, claiming third place at 197 pounds in 2020-21 after three top-four finishes at 174 pounds. He captured the 197-pound Big Ten title, becoming the first Wolverine to capture an individual conference title at the weight since 2009, and posted an 11-1 record this season with 10 wins over nationally ranked opponents. He represented Marino at the Olympics and is a three-time European medalist, including a bronze-medal performance at the 2021 Euro Championships in April.
This marks Hoffmann's second CoSIDA Academic All-America honor and her first first-team selection after she received a second-team distinction in 2020. Hoffmann's perfect 4.0 grade-point average was earned as she graduated this spring with twin degrees in political science and comparative literature from U-M's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A). She is a native of Geelong, Australia, and also speaks fluent German and French.
Hoffmann has twice earned CRCA Scholar-Athlete and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition (2019-20) with three Academic All-Big Ten awards.
On the water, Hoffmann is an NCAA medalist (bronze, 1V8, 2019) who has been part of two Big Ten Championship-winning rosters (2019, '21). She was named 2021 Big Ten Athlete of the Year and first team all-conference on the heels of U-M's conference title in May. She helped the 1V8 finish fourth at the NCAA Championships, leading to a fourth-place team finish as well. Hoffmann has won Big Ten gold (1V8, 2019) and silver (2V8, 2018) prior to this year's team and boat titles; she also earned a bronze medal at the 2019 NCAA Championships.
MacNeil becomes the first Academic All-America honoree for U-M women's swimming since 2014, capping off an incredible 2020-21 run for the rising senior. The London, Ontario, native became the first Olympic gold medalist from the Wolverine women's program in 20 years, and is the first varsity swimmer (female or male) to earn three medals at one Olympics. She is also the first U-M female varsity athlete with three career medals.
She won Olympic gold in the 100-meter butterfly, took silver with Team Canada in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay and swam the butterfly leg of the Canadian 4x100-meter medley team that won bronze.
A psychology major, MacNeil is a two-time Honda Award finalist and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar. At the NCAA Championships in March, MacNeil won two individual national titles (100-yard butterfly, 100-yard freestyle), finished as a runner-up in a third event (50-yard freestyle), and swam on two All-America relay teams, a performance that entrenched her as the 2020-21 CSCAA Women's Swimmer of the Year. She set an NCAA record in the 100-yard butterfly (48.89 seconds), became the second woman in history to break 49 seconds in both the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke (49.76), and became the third-fastest performer in history in the 100-yard freestyle (46.02).
She was Big Ten Conference Swimmer of the Year and earned Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships after winning three individual events and swimming a leg on the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team. She received All-Big Ten (first team) and Academic All-Big Ten honors.
Mann earns CoSIDA Academic All-America honors for the second straight season, capturing second-team recognition a year after earning third-team honors. He is the first Michigan ice hockey player to earn two Academic All-America honors in a career.
A two-time Mike Richter Award finalist -- presented to the nation's best goaltender -- Mann was the Big Ten Goaltender of the Year in 2020 and was a finalist this year, earning second team All-Big Ten honors. He captured first-team honors and was also a finalist for the league's Player of the Year in 2020. Mann has been named AHCA All-America Scholar three times and Academic All-Big Ten twice.
The first goalie captain for Michigan in 78 years, Mann finished this season with a .930 save percentage, a 1.89 goals-against average and two assists. He is the fourth netminder in program history with 11 shutouts and has been actively involved on campus as a member of the Leadership Development Team, Advisory Board on Intercollegiate Athletics.
O'Reilly earns her first Academic All-America honor as a sport management major. The senior attacker is a three-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and has earned academic honors from the CWPA in each of the past three seasons.
The Villanova, Pa., native had a tremendous year in the pool, earning the 2021 CWPA Player of the Year and CWPA Championship Most Valuable Player. The captain helped lead Michigan to the NCAA Tournament and a No. 7 final ranking, also while leading the team with 47 goals, 33 assists, 21 steals and 11 field blocks in 2021. O'Reilly is the second Wolverine water polo student-athlete to be named Academic All-American.
Wojcik earns her first Academic All-America honor, grabbing a spot on the second team as a triple major in psychology, Spanish and linguistics. The junior all-arounder is a two-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar, earning WCGA Scholastic All-American honors and being named a 30 for 30 Changemarker by the Public Charter Schools Alliance in 2021. Wojcik also has earned Academic All-Big Ten honors twice as well as the U-M Academic Achievement Award.
In the gym, Wojcik is both an individual and team national champion, capturing the balance beam title in 2019 and helping her Wolverines to their first-ever NCAA championship in 2021. Wojcik is a four-time WCGA All-American, an eight-time WCGA regular-season All-American, a two-time WCGA Regional Gymnast of the Year and an 11-time Big Ten Gymnast of the Week. In her three seasons, Wojcik has earned three perfect 10s, two of which came in 2021, with one on balance beam and one on vault as she was the Big Ten individual champion in the event. She is the sixth U-M women's gymnast to earn Academic All-America honors and the first since Nicole Artz (2017).
Michigan now has had nine student-athletes earn Academic All-America honors during the 2020-21 academic year, as these six join Franz Wagner (men's basketball, first team), Joel Harrison (men's soccer, first team) and Marc Ybarra (men's soccer, second team).
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