Eight Cal Poly athletes were named to the Academic All-Big West Conference winter sports team on Tuesday.
The women’s swimming team garnered half of the Mustangs’ eight spots as junior Jaclyn Mann and sophomores Caitlin Lee, Carly Rowan and Melody White were all selected.
Student-athletes must maintain a 3.20 grade point average in order to qualify. They must also be at least a sophomore and competed in no less than 50 percent of their team’s games.
Joining the conference team from the men’s side of swimming and diving were senior Brent Summers and sophomore Josh Cutts.
Also receiving honors were men’s basketball junior guard Charles Anderson and women’s basketball sophomore guard Rachel Clancy.
The athletes were strong in the classroom but they also contributed heavily to their teams during the course of the year.
Clancy is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and was even chosen to attend President Barack Obama’s inauguration. A biology major, she averaged 4.7 points per game in helping the Mustangs match a program record for single season victories and helped them to within minutes of the NCAA tournament.
Mann, a marine biology student, was the only junior on the women’s team this year as she specialized in the breaststroke and individual medley. Lee, a kinesiology major, had the fourth best time in the 500 Free and the third-best times in both the 1000 and 1650 Free.
Rowan, a journalism student, recorded several season-best marks at the year-ending Big West Championships in February.
A business senior, White was part of the school-record setting 200 Free Relay team in 2008 as well as the 800 Free Relay record-breaking team this season.
Summers, an environmental management major, ended his Cal Poly career with personal-best times in the 50, 100 and 200 Free at the Big West Championships.
Cutts, who is majoring in biomedical engineering, posted the second-fastest times in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke for the men’s team this year.
Anderson averaged 4.1 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, shooting 44 percent from beyond the arc for the Mustangs.