June 8, 2010

Complete 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America At-Large Team in PDF Format

BALTIMORE, MD - Johns Hopkins junior Jeremy Selbst (Old Greenwich, CT/Greenwich), a standout goalie on the Blue Jay water polo team, has been named to the CoSIDA ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's At-Large Third Team it was announced today. He is just the second Johns Hopkins water polo player to earn Academic All-America honors as he joins Zaman Mirzadeh, who earned first team honors in 2001. Overall, Selbst is the 76th Johns Hopkins student-athlete to earn Academic All-America honors and the 41st since 2000. Johns Hopkins ranks among the all-time national leaders with its 76 all-time selections.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America At-Large team consists of athletes from the following sports: swimming, water polo, wrestling, tennis, ice hockey, lacrosse, fencing, rifle, volleyball and golf. First, second and third teams were named at both the University Division and College Division. Selbst was selected in the College Division.

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 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 interned during the spring semester with the FBI on an advertising and marketing campaign and also completed an internship with JukeBox Television. This summer, he is interning as an analyst at T. Rowe Price.

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