Five Spartans Earn All-SSC Women's Swimming Honors
MELBOURNE, Fla. - Eighteen student-athletes have been selected to the 2019-20 All-SSC Women's Swimming Teams. Voting for the team was conducted among the Sunshine State Conference women's swimming coaches.
Nova Southeastern University, the 2020 SSC women's champion, boasts six honorees, including three First Team award winners. Florida Southern College, Florida Tech, Lynn University, Nova Southeastern University, Rollins College, Saint Leo University, and the University of Tampa were also represented in the league awards this season.
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NSU's Emma Sundstedt and UT's Hana van Loock highlight the All-SSC honorees repeating in 2019-20. Both Sundstedt and van Loock both received a third consecutive All-SSC First Team honor from conference coaches. Joining Sundstedt and van Loock as All-SSC First Team from last season is NSU's Sasha Maslova as well as Courtney Sherwood and Lisa Bazarova from Tampa. In total, 10 of the 18 swimmers listed repeat as All-SSC from last season.
Last year, Sundstedt and Maslova were named Swimmer of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards, while Sundstedt also earned Freshman of the Year honors in 2017-18. Sherwood was recently named the top female athlete at the 2020 SSC Championship and became the second Spartan to win the conference's Swimmer of the Meet honor. Six of nine SSC women's Swimmers of the Meet award winners have gone on to be named league Swimmer of the Year in the same season.
Coach of the Year, Swimmer of the Year, and Freshman of the Year will be voted on by league coaches following the NCAA Division II championship. This year's NCAA Championships will be held March 11 - 14 at the SPIRE Institute Aquatics Center in Geneva, Ohio. For a full list of SSC qualifiers, click here.
| 2020 ALL-SSC Women's Swimming First Team | |||
| Name | School | Yr. | Hometown |
| Emma Sundstedt^@†$ | Nova Southeastern | Jr. | Hasselby, Sweden |
| Courtney Sherwood^ | Tampa | So. | Ottawa, Ontario |
| Jenna Johns*‡ | Nova Southeastern | So. | Ambler, Pa. |
| Hana van Loock^† | Tampa | Jr. | Essen, Germany |
| Lisa Bazarova^ | Tampa | So. | Neznamovo, Russia |
| Sasha Maslova^! | Nova Southeastern | So. | Moscow, Russia |
| Savannah Brennan* | Florida Tech | Jr. | Oviedo, Fla. |
| Ewa Osiniak | Lynn | Fr. | Lublin, Poland |
| 2020 ALL-SSC Women's Swimming Second Team | |||
| Name | School | Yr. | Hometown |
| Cassie Wright | Nova Southeastern | Jr. | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Vittoria Bonsanti Feniello | Saint Leo | So. | Los Teques, Venezuela |
| Jessie Tobin*‡ | Tampa | Jr. | Pittsfield, Mass. |
| Samantha Beck | Lynn | Fr. | Sparks, Nev. |
| Sydney Willis | Rollins | So. | Raleigh, N.C. |
| Karolina Smylek* | Lynn | So. | Lublin, Poland |
| Elizabeth Zubero* | Nova Southeastern | Sr. | Fort Lauderdale, Fla. |
| Caily Friel | Nova Southeastern | Sr. | Tinley Park, Ill. |
| 2020 ALL-SSC Women's Swimming Honorable Mention | |||
| Name | School | Yr. | Hometown |
| Julia Augustsson | Tampa | Fr. | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Malin Wallen | Florida Southern | Sr. | Stockholm, Sweden |
^ = 2018-19 All-SSC First Team
* = 2018-19 All-SSC Second Team
! = 2018-19 Freshman of the Year
@ = 2018-19 Swimmer of the Year
† = 2017-18 All-SSC First Team
‡ = 2017-18 All-SSC Second Team
$ = 2017-18 Freshman of the Year