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Johns Hopkins' Jeremy Selbst Named First Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
BALTIMORE, Md. -- Johns Hopkins University water polo goalie Jeremy Selbst (Jr., Old Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) has been named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II At-Large College Division First Team. He is the first JHU water polo player since 2001 and just the second ever at Hopkins to be named to the all-academic team. He will now go on the ballot for national Academic All-America honors. The ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America At-Large Team is due to be announced on June 8.
The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Athletes named to the first team qualify for the national ballot. To be nominated for the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.3 or higher cumulative grade point average and be a starter or significant reserve.
The At-Large Team is comprised of male athletes in fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling to mark the largest Academic All-America division in the program.
Selbst earned Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Second Team All-America honors after leading Hopkins to its 12th Division III Eastern Championship and third-place finishes at the ECAC and Southern Division Championships. He started all but two games in the goal for the Blue Jays and finished the season ranked fourth in the nation (among all divisions) in saves with 289. Selbst also notched 16 assists and led the team in steals with 90. He is just the fourth goalie in the history of the program to earn All-America honors.
Outside of the pool, Selbst also excels in the classroom. He is majoring in both economics and psychology with a minor in business and boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.57. He has twice been named a Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) and ACWPC Scholar-Athlete. Selbst is currently interning with the FBI on an advertising and marketing campaign and is also completing an internship with JukeBox Television. This summer, he will intern as an analyst at T. Rowe Price.
Overall, he is one of four CWPA male varsity athletes named to the team as Brown University goalie Kent Holland was named to the University Division District I First Team, while the United States Naval Academy's Luke Baldwin was recognized on the University Division District I Second Team and Harvard University's Egen Atkinson picked up University Division District I Second Team accolades.
The four selections mark the most garnered by either a men's or women's water polo conference in a single year establishing a new bar for the CWPA, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF), Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) and Western Water Polo Association (WWPA).
