May 20, 2010

BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins water polo junior Jeremy Selbst (Old Greenwich, CT/Greenwich) has been named to the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District First Team for District II. He is the first water polo player since 2001 and just the second ever at Hopkins to be named to the all-academic team. He will now go on the ballot for national Academic All-America honors. The ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America At-Large Team is due to be announced on June 8.

The District II region includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Athletes named to the first team qualify for the national ballot. 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.

Selbst earned Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) Second Team All-America honors after leading Hopkins to its 12th Division III Eastern Championship and third-place finishes at the ECAC and Southern Division Championships. He started all but two games in the goal for the Blue Jays and finished the season ranked fourth in the nation (among all divisions) in saves with 289. Selbst also notched 16 assists and led the team in steals with 90. He is just the fourth goalie in the history of the program to earn All-America honors.

Outside of the pool, Selbst also excels in the classroom. He is majoring in both economics and psychology with a minor in business and boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.57. He has twice been named a Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) and ACWPC Scholar-Athlete. Selbst is currently interning with the FBI on an advertising and marketing campaign and is also completing an internship with JukeBox Television. This summer, he will intern as an analyst at T. Rowe Price.