CHESTERTOWN — Washington College’s Zach Affeldt is the Centennial Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men’s swimming; he’s the All-Centennial performer with junior or senior standing who has the highest cumulative grade point average.
Affeldt, a political science major, is a junior from Savage, Minnesota.
Affeldt and teammate Shane Brace of Hershey, Pennsylvania earned Academic All-Centennial honors by being named an all-conference performer and qualifying for the Academic Honor Roll in the same season.
Academic Honor Roll student-athletes have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.40 on a 4.0 scale. Freshmen are not eligible.
Affeldt and Brace gained honorable mention in the 200-yard breaststroke and 200 butterfly, respectively.
Gold medalists at the conference championships earn first-team All-Centennial honors and silver medalists earn second-team honors, — for both individual events and relays.
Individual bronze medalists are named All-Centennial honorable mention.
Prior to this year, only gold and silver medalists earned All-Centennial recognition.
This is the second year in a row that Affeldt medaled in the 200 breast at the conference’s championship meet; in 2023 he took silver in a school record of 2 minutes, 2.22 seconds.
Printed here are Washington College’s Academic Honor Roll student-athletes for winter sports.
MEN’S SWIMMING: senior Jay Dadhania of Hainesport, N.J.; juniors Zach Affeldt, CJ Dunker of Eldersburg (Liberty High School) and Chase Hensen of Fredericksburg, Va.; and sophomore Shane Brace
Dadhania three-peats, while Affeldt, Dunker and Hensen qualify for a second time.
WOMEN’S SWIMMING: seniors Kenley Hewitt of Lutherville (Maryvale Prep), Kennedy Jones of Burke, Va. and Emma Schultz of Timonium (Dulaney); juniors Ayana Davis of Silver Spring (Springbrook), Courtney Poetsch of Randolph, N.J. and Kylee Smith of Avon, Colo.; and sophomore Lauren Paules of Blandon, Pa.
Hewitt, Jones and Schultz qualify for the third year in a row, while Davis, Poetsch and Smith are two-time qualifiers.
MEN’S BASKETBALL: seniors Sam Corrao of Telford, Pa. and Jason Zielinski of Brooklyn, N.Y.; juniors Paul Rodolf of Manchester, N.H., Ethan Schwantes of Winchester, Va., Zack Skrocki of Royersford, Pa. and Precieux Tshibangu of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Springdale Preparatory School); and sophomores Ryan Lang of New Market (Linganore) and Jalen Wheeler of McKinney, Texas.
Zielinski qualifies for the third year in a row, while Corrao, Schwantes and Tshibangu repeat.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: juniors Karry Kelliher of Annapolis (St. Mary’s) and Avery Thomas of Malvern, Pa.; and sophomores Kaitlyn Boggs of Linwood, N.J., Abby Meredith of Wilmington, Del. and Emma Robinson of Washington, D.C. (Elizabeth Seton).
Kelliher and Thomas repeat.