Drury's Zornoza named top academic All-American

Alvaro Zornoza added yet another impressive accolade to his 2025-26 resume when 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.

Alvaro Zornoza

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 this year.

On the women's side, Maria Fe Munoz was selected for Third-Team Academic All-America recognition, bringing Drury's total number of honorees to four for 2025-26.

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).

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. 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.

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. Munoz earned Academic All-District honors for the second year in a row earlier this month following a breakthrough senior campaign for the Panthers. The Cajamarca, Peru native earned three individual All-America citations at the 2026 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships, including a national runner-up finish in the 200 fly after claiming the Great Lakes Valley Conference individual title in the same event.