BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University junior Catie Lovett has been selected to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Women's Swimming & Diving Team for NCAA Division III schools.
To be eligible for CSC Academic All-America® honors, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.50 grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior or senior and be a starter or significant reserve that has played in 90 percent of the team's contest or started 66 percent of the team's games in 2023-24. Moravian has had 56 Greyhounds named CSC Academic All-Americans®.
Academic All-District® honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. The CSC Academic All-America® teams will be announced Tuesday, April 23 for women's swimming and diving.
Lovett, a nursing major with a 3.93 GPA, competes in three sports at Moravian as she runs cross country and track in addition to swimming. This past winter, Lovett set three school records for the Greyhounds while competing in the 2024 Landmark Conference Championships. She finished 11th in the 100-yard freestyle with a school record time of 56.30 seconds before breaking the record again with the opening leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 55.84 seconds as she helped the relay finish tenth. Lovett set the school mark in the 100-yard backstroke at 1:04.66 as she finished in 16th, and Lovett began the championships with a school record time of 25.52 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle, taking fourth in the "B" final.
In her swimming career, Lovett has set six individual and a pair of relay school records at Moravian. Last fall on the cross country course, Lovett was 50th in the 2023 Landmark Conference Championship as the Greyhounds finished as the runner-up in the team standings. On the track, she races in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs.
Outside of competing in three sports, Lovett is a member of the Student Nurses Association, Habitat for Humanity, the Psychology Club and Moravian's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She also works in the Registrar's Office and as a lifeguard. Lovett is a member of the Phi Eta Sigma and Tri Beta Honor Societies, the Student Comenius Society and a Student Alumni Representative.
Lovett is a five-time member of the Moravian University Dean's Honors List, a four-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll, a College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America honoree and the first recipient of the Anna Nitschmann Scholarship.
To view the entire 2024 Women's Swimming & Diving Academic All-District Teams, visit https://academicallamerica.com/documents/2024/4/2//Acad_WSWIM_2023_24_docx.pdf?id=5459.
