Catie Baker Named Capital One Academic All-America® for Third Straight Year

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June 5, 2012

Greencastle, Ind. — Catie Baker (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Kennedy), a May summa cum laude graduate and a member of the women's swimming and diving team, has been selected to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Women's At-Large First Team. The team is selected by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

The honor is the third straight for Baker as she was a second team college division selection in 2010 and a first team choice last year. She joins Nancy Gritter '88 as the only three-time Academic All-America® selections in DePauw history. 

Baker, who was named an NCAA Postgraduate Scholar this spring, had a 3.99 grade point average through seven semesters while majoring in both computer science and mathematics. She's been named to DePauw's Dean's List all seven semesters and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

A mentor for both the DePauw.year1 and Women in Science programs, Baker is a member of Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society and also served as president of the Delta Gamma sorority.

In the pool, Baker was a three-time NCAA Division III all-America honoree in the 100-yard breaststroke. She also earned honorable mention all-America three times in the 200 breast and once in the 200 individual medley. Baker was a three-time College Swim Coaches Association Scholar All-American and earned Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year honors in 2010 and 2011.

The 2011 SCAC Swimmer of the Meet, Baker was a 10-time SCAC champion and set the conference's meet record in the 200 breast. Baker is DePauw's all-time career and single-season point leader and holds two individual school records and two as a member of relays.

Baker was featured this spring by Cedar Rapids' KCRG-TV.

She joins DePauw student-athletes Kreigh Kamman and Rachel MacBeth who earlier this year were also Capital One Academic All-America® choices.

In all, DePauw student-athletes have earned 47 Academic All-America® honors since Ike Tallman's selection to the 1958 football team. The complete list of DePauw honorees is posted below.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.

Since the program’s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program, please visit the CoSIDA site.