SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Alvaro Zornoza added yet another impressive accolade to his 2025-26 resume Wednesday, when the College Sports Communicators (CSC) selected the junior standout as its Academic All-America^® Men's Swimming and Diving Division II Team Member of the Year, headlining a list of three Drury men's swimmers to be honored as part of the organization's top scholar-athlete team.

In addition to Zornoza's honor, fellow Panthers Ivan Adamchuk and Yuri Cabral were chosen for the CSC's 11-man top academic team, making Drury the lone NCAA institution at any level to produce three First-Team Academic All-America^® swimmers in 2025-26. The three Academic All-America selections for Drury also established a program standard, surpassing the previous mark of two Panthers earning the distinction in each of the last three years (2023-25).

As voted by the CSC membership, the 2025-26 Academic All-America^® Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Teams recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in the pool and in the classroom. 

A junior from Gijon, Spain, Zornoza is the first Drury student-athlete to be honored as a CSC Academic All-America^® Team Member of the Year. A mathematics major who has maintained a 4.00 grade-point average at Drury, he led the Panthers to a national runner-up finish at the 2026 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships in March, claiming an individual national title in the 200 back (1:41.20). He took home second place in the 100 back and third in the 200 IM. In addition he swam legs of the Panthers' 400 medley and 800 free relay teams, both of which brought home runner-up finishes at the national meet.
 
Zornoza also turned in a strong showing at this year's GLVC Championships, helping Drury to a second-place finish. That performance included a GLVC Championship record-breaking time of 1:42.67 in the 200 back, as well as a first-place effort in the 100 back (46.39).

A finance major with a 3.90 GPA, Adamchuk earned a spot on CSC's top academic squad for the second year in a row, making him the first Panther to garner multiple First-Team Academic All-America^® nods in program history. The junior from Brest, Belarus turned in a national runner-up finish in the 200 back, a third-place finish in the 100 back and a sixth-place effort in the 200 IM at the NCAA Championships this spring. He also brought home silver for the Panthers as part of DU's 200 medley and 400 medley relays to help DU claim a national runner-up finish in Evansville.

Cabral was named to a CSC Academic All-America^® team for the first time as a Panther following a breakthrough campaign that saw the Bauru, Brazil product log a pair of top eight finishes at the 2026 NCAA Championships in addition to powering four Drury relay teams to podium finishes. The junior placed seventh in the 100 free and eighth in the 50 free, and contributed to national runner-up efforts by the Panthers' 200 medley and 400 medley relay teams. Cabral, who maintains a 3.95 GPA as a business economics major, helped DU capture the GLVC title in the 200 free relay as well. 

Nominees for CSC Academic All-America^® honors must maintain a 3.5 cumulative grade-point average and compete in 75 percent of competitions, or finish among the top eight at a conference meet, or participate in a national championship. 

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