May 21, 2009

BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins men's swimming senior John Kegelman (Yorktown, VA/Tabb) has added another honor to his impressive resume. On Thursday morning he was named a First Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District At-Large selection. Kegelman is the eighth men's swimmer from JHU to earn the honor and he will now go on the ballot for Academic All-America consideration. The men's swimming program has produced a total of 11 academic all-district selections since 1991, including one every year since 2002.

The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. 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. Sports eligible under the at-large program include: women's bowling, women's crew, men's and women's fencing, women's field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, men's and women's ice hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rifle, men's and women's skiing, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's volleyball, men's and women's water polo, and men's wrestling.

Kegelman, a mechanical engineering with a 4.00 cumulative GPA, recently received a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He is a two-time captain of the swimming team and earned All-America honors five times in his career. At the 2009 NCAA Championships, he earned First Team All-America honors in the 200 and 400 Medley Relays, as both teams posted the second fastest times in program history. He helped JHU to three top 10 finishes at the NCAAs, including a runner-up finish in 2008.

A Dean's List student and a member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, Kegelman received a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). He was a summer scholar at the NASA Langley Research Center, an intern with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and an undergraduate research assistant for the Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics. Kegelman will pursue a Ph.D. in the area of robotics within the field of mechanical engineering at Stanford next fall.