Emory senior Clio Hancock gained the NCAA Division III Girls’s Elite 90 Award, and Carnegie Mellon senior Justin Britton gained the NCAA Division III Males’s Elite 90 Award.
The award is given yearly to the student-athlete with the best cumulative grade-point common who competes on the respective NCAA Championships within the sport. Eligibility requires that athletes should have been a member of their group for at the least two years and be an energetic participant on the championship competitors.
That is Britton’s second time receiving the award as he obtained it again as a sophomore in 2019. Britton obtained the invite for the Males’s NCAA Division III Championships within the 100 and 200 backstrokes. He was the tenth seed within the 100 (48.20) and the twelfth within the 200 (1:46.78). He additionally was entered within the 100 butterfly because the fortieth seed.
Yesterday, Britton completed tenth within the 100 butterfly with a time of 47.88. This morning, he swam a time of 47.50 within the 100 backstroke to earn a spot within the A remaining.
Britton carries a 4.0 GPA at Carnegie Mellon and is majoring in info methods.
On the ladies’s facet, Emory’s Clio Hancock earned the dignity. Hancock was invited to the Girls’s NCAA Division III Championships within the 200 IM, 400 IM, and 200 butterfly. She was the second seed within the 400 IM (4:21.99), fourth seed within the 200 butterfly (2:01.23), and the eighth seed within the 200 IM (2:02.44).
Hancock completed sixth within the 200 IM already after swimming a time of two:02.47 in finals. She additionally was fourth within the 400 IM final night time after swimming a time of 4:21.20. This morning, she earned a spot within the A remaining of the 200 butterfly after swimming a time of two:02.20 in prelims.
Hancock carried a 4.0 GPA at Emory and is a double main in Chemistry and Anthropology. She is the second Emory athlete to earn the award ever as Kyle Monk of Emory baseball earned the award again in 2016.
