Arizona State’s Tiago Behar Wins Elite 90 Award for Highest GPA at Males’s NCAA D1 Championships


In every week the place Arizona State’s males’s swimming & diving group has piled-up awards, one other comes for work finished exterior the pool.

Tiago Behar was named the Elite 90 Award winner for the 2024 NCAA Division I Males’s Swimming & Diving Championships. Behar, a junior, is majoring in laptop science and holds an ideal 4.0 GPA.

This makes a sweep of the Division I awards for the Solar Devils this season: US Nationwide Crew member Lindsay Looney received the ladies’s award.

The award is given yearly to the student-athlete with the very best cumulative grade-point common who competes on the ultimate web site of every of the 90 NCAA Championships. Eligibility requires that athletes will need to have been a member of their group for at the very least two years and be an energetic participant on the championship competitors.

In circumstances of ties, the student-athlete with probably the most accomplished credit wins the award.

Previous ASU Elite 90 Winners

  • 2009-10 – Andy Workman (Baseball), Finance, 3.903
  • 2012-13 – Bailey Wigness (Softball), Communication & Political Science, 4.00
  • 2013-14 – Ianeta Hutchinson (Water Polo), Psychology, 4.00
  • 2017-18 – Roberta Liti (Girls’s Golf), Administration/Enterprise (Sports activities & Media Research), 4.00
  • 2023-24 – Lindsay Looney (Girls’s Swim and Dive), Household and Human Growth, MS, 4.00
  • 2023-24 – Tiago Behar (Males’s Swim and Dive), Laptop Science, 4.00

Behar completed forty sixth within the 50 free (19.58), forty seventh within the 100 free (42.56), and twenty ninth within the 200 free (1:32.86) on the NCAA Championships, all of that are new private bests.

He completed seventh within the 200 free on the Pac-12 Championships.

Behar is a local of Lutry, Switzerland.

Arizona State received the lads’s NCAA title in Swimming & Diving final weekend in Indianapolis. Along with Behar’s award, Arizona State head coach Bob Bowman was named the SwimSwam Coach of the Yr, Leon Marchand was named the SwimSwam Swimmer of the Yr, Zalan Sarkany was named the SwimSwam Breakout Swimmer of the Yr, and Ilya Kharun was named the SwimSwam Freshman of the Yr.

ALL-TIME WINNERS, ELITE 90 AWARD, NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING

 

YEAR AWARD NAME DIVISION SCHOOL CONFERENCE SPORT MAJOR GPA
2010 Elite 90 Elliott, Andrew 1 The Ohio State College Huge Ten Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Finance 4.00
2011 Elite 90 Farra, Justin 1 The Ohio State College Huge Ten Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Political Science and Economics 3.874
2012 Elite 90 Sterling, Brent 1 College of Tennessee, Knoxville Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Organic Sciences 3.98
2013 Elite 90 Sterling, Brent 1 College of Tennessee, Knoxville Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Organic Sciences 3.98
2014 Elite 90 Stewart, Tynan 1 College of Georgia Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving English 4.00
2015 Elite 90 Stewart, Tynan 1 College of Georgia Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving English and Cognitive Science 4.00
2016 Elite 90 Lile, Nathan 1 Gardner-Webb College Huge South Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Laptop Science 4.00
2017 Elite 90 Ransford, Patrick 1 College of Michigan Huge Ten Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Mechanical Engineering 4.00
2018 Elite 90 Ransford, Patrick 1 College of Michigan Huge Ten Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Mechanical engineering 4.00
2019 Elite 90 Reilman, Joey 1 College of Tennessee, Knoxville Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Industrial Engineering 3.94
2021 Elite 90 Oh, Micah 1 U.S. Naval Academy Patriot League Males’s Swimming and Diving Utilized Math 4.00
2022 Elite 90 Knowles, Eric 1 NC State College Atlantic Coast Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Supplies Science 4.00
2023 Elite 90 Maas, Derek 1 College of Alabama Southeastern Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Biology 4.00
2022 Elite 90 Behar, Tiago 1 Arizona State College Pac-12 Convention Males’s Swimming and Diving Laptop Science 4.00



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