The Hope College women's swimming & diving team recorded the third-highest team grade point average in NCAA Division III during the fall semester during the 2016-17 school year.

Coach John Patnott's Flying Dutch are among a record 638 women's and men's teams from all NCAA and NAIA divisions to be named College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America Teams for the fall semester.

Hope earned a team GPA of 3.65. Only MIT (3.72) and Pomona Pitzer, Calif. (3.69) were higher in Division III.

To be selected as a CSCAA Scholar All-America Team, programs must have achieved a grade point average of 3.00 or higher over the fall semester.

The Hope men's swimming & diving team also claimed CSCAA Scholar All-America Team honors with a 3.13 team GPA.

Founded in 1922, the College Swimming Coaches Association of America – the oldest organization of college coaches in America - is a professional organization of college swimming and diving coaches dedicated to serving and providing leadership for the advancement of the sport of swimming & diving at the collegiate level.

Read the CSCAA release.