CollegeSwimming.com announced today the 2005 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Mid-Major All-American Team.  This is the inagural year of the program and continues CollegeSwimming.com’s support of Mid-Major programs.  The student-athletes were selected on the basis of their qualifying for the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships.  Members of the 2006 team are:

Bassi, Noelle	Harvard	So
Boncher, Brooke	Richmond	Jr
Bragg, Ja-Neil	Pacific	Fr
Crowley, Jamie	Central Connecticut	Jr
Gavozdea, Adela	Northeastern	Sr
Horton-Perinchief, Katura	George Washington	Sr
Irby, Jennifer	Towson	Sr
Loftus, Melanie	Yale	Sr
Nagata, Chelsea	UC-Irvine	Fr
Pangilinan, Jackie	Harvard	Fr
Parker, Diane	East Carolina	Sr
Schwalb, Jennifer	UC-Santa Barbara	So
Men
Berman, Dean	UNC-Wilmington	Sr
Beasley, Matt	Southwest Missouri State	Jr
Capara, Stefano	Cornell	Jr
Cary, Pat	UC-Santa Barbara	So
Cole, John	Harvard	Sr
Cromwell, David	Harvard	Jr
DeMond, Kent	Princeton	Jr
Lawler, James	Harvard	Sr
Possato, Marcelo	Southern Illinois	Sr
Rathgerber, Geoff	Harvard	Fr
Wohl, Daniel	Eastern Michigan	So
Zoldak, Krzystof	Pacific	Fr

The Mid-Major designation is used to direct attention to teams that do not benefit from membership in one of the conferences with large television contracts for football or basketball.  Institutions eligible for the CollegeSwimming.com poll are those institutions that a) are not members of a BCS conference, Mountain West Conference, or Western Athletic Conference; or b) provide fewer than one-half of the allowable scholarships under the NCAA rules.