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Already an NCAA champion in 2024, Tristan Szapary is now an Academic All-American.
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Szapary Named CSC First-Team Academic All-America
July 17, 2024 | Men's Fencing
Adding to a year in which fencer Tristan Szapary won the NCAA épée title, earned the Roper Trophy honor as Princeton's top senior athlete from a men's program, and graduated with his Princeton degree in neuroscience, Szapary has been voted as a College Sports Communicators first-team Academic All-America.
The selection was made by vote of CSC members. Szapary is one of 16 honorees on the At-Large first team and is the lone fencer on any of the three Division I Academic All-America teams. The At-Large program allows schools to nominate six from men's teams and six from women's teams across a range of sports to earn Academic All-District honors, and from there, a CSC committee assembles a ballot to be voted on for Academic All-America. The list of At-Large sports includes beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing, skiing, men's volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.
To qualify for the Academic All-District ballot, student-athletes had to meet GPA and competition minimums.
It is the 69th time in award history that a Princetonian has earned Academic All-America honors, beginning with Bill Bradley '65 in 1965. Soccer's Ryan Clare '23, also a first-teamer, was Princeton's most recent Academic All-America honoree, in 2022. Szapary is Princeton's 21st first-team honoree, the fourth Princeton fencer to be named Academic All-America, and the second Princeton fencer to earn first-team honors, along with Harald Winkmann '95 in 1994. Jonathan Yergler '13 was the last Tiger fencer to be named Academic All-America, in 2012.
On the way to winning the NCAA épée title, Szapary earned his second All-America honor, his second NCAA regional title, his third All-Ivy honor, and his second time as an Academic All-Ivy honoree. The NCAA title was the ninth for a Princeton men's fencer and first since Yergler won the title in 2012.
The selection was made by vote of CSC members. Szapary is one of 16 honorees on the At-Large first team and is the lone fencer on any of the three Division I Academic All-America teams. The At-Large program allows schools to nominate six from men's teams and six from women's teams across a range of sports to earn Academic All-District honors, and from there, a CSC committee assembles a ballot to be voted on for Academic All-America. The list of At-Large sports includes beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing, skiing, men's volleyball, water polo, and wrestling.
To qualify for the Academic All-District ballot, student-athletes had to meet GPA and competition minimums.
It is the 69th time in award history that a Princetonian has earned Academic All-America honors, beginning with Bill Bradley '65 in 1965. Soccer's Ryan Clare '23, also a first-teamer, was Princeton's most recent Academic All-America honoree, in 2022. Szapary is Princeton's 21st first-team honoree, the fourth Princeton fencer to be named Academic All-America, and the second Princeton fencer to earn first-team honors, along with Harald Winkmann '95 in 1994. Jonathan Yergler '13 was the last Tiger fencer to be named Academic All-America, in 2012.
On the way to winning the NCAA épée title, Szapary earned his second All-America honor, his second NCAA regional title, his third All-Ivy honor, and his second time as an Academic All-Ivy honoree. The NCAA title was the ninth for a Princeton men's fencer and first since Yergler won the title in 2012.
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