Diver Nate Moch earns Verizon Academic All-America honors. (photo: Marilyn Culler)

Moch named a Verizon Academic All-American

Nate Moch, a 2003 DePauw University graduate and a resident of Eau Claire, Wis., has been selected to the 2003 Verizon College Division Men's At-Large Academic All-America First Team. The team is selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Moch majored in both computer science and Spanish and graduated with a 3.96 cumulative grade point average. He earned NCAA Division III All-America honors in March with a seventh-place finish in one-meter diving and honorable mention with a 13th-place showing on the three-meter board.

The four-time Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Diver of the Year after earning conference titles for fourth straight years on both boards, was an  honorable mention All-American twice in one-meter and once in three-meter as a sophomore and junior.

Moch was inducted into both Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma national collegiate scholar-athlete honor society and was named an academic all-star by National Swimming Coaches Association of America. A Science Research Fellow at DePauw, Moch studied abroad in Argentina and is fluent in Argentine dialect of Spanish.