MILWAUKEE - Eight members of the Milwaukee swimming & diving teams were selected for this year's College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team, the organization announced.
 
For the women, Mara Freeman, Therese Missiaen, and Janelle Schulz, all find themselves on the list for the second year in a row, with Julie Rebek receiving honors for the third straight year. Freeman, Missiaen, and Schulz earned spots on the Horizon League All-Academic Team as well.
 
The men's team was represented by Jackson Ahrens, Jay Jensen, Andrew Jones, and Ben Lorenz after all four received All-Academic honors from the league in March.
 
Freeman, a junior accounting major, currently holds a 4.00 GPA and finished second at the Horizon League Championships in the 100 and 200 backstrokes. Additionally, she helped the 400 medley relay team to a conference championship.
 
As a senior biomedical engineering student, Schulz boasts a 3.90 GPA in addition to her top-three finishes in the 50, 100, and 200 freestyles at the league championships. Schulz also won league titles with the 400 medley and 200 freestyle relay teams.
 
Rebek is in her final year as a journalism, advertising, and media studies major, keeping up a GPA of 3.86. At the league championships, she qualified for the "A" finals in the one-meter dive and placed seventh.
 
A senior kinesiology student with a 3.96 GPA, Missiaen also secured a 13th-place finish in the one-meter dive at the league championships.
 
Lorenz takes a spot on the Academic All-District squad for the second consecutive year. The physics major's GPA of 3.73, combined with a fifth-place performance in the 50 freestyle at this year's league championships, helped him get back on list in his senior year.
 
As a sophomore psychology student, Jones has earned a 3.93 GPA, while in the pool he swam to a sixth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke at this year's league championships.
 
Jensen is currently working on his master's degree in geographic information systems with a 3.86 GPA. He closed out his final season with Milwaukee at the league championships where he grabbed third in the 400 individual medley.
 
Ahrens rounds out this year's honorees, the senior marketing student has maintained a GPA of 3.81, and helped the 200 and 800 freestyle relay teams set new school-records at the league championships.