AUSTIN, TX – The Johns Hopkins women's swim team placed three Blue Jays on the 2022-23 College Sports Communicators Swimming & Diving Academic All-America Team it was announced today. Graduate students
Kristen Alicea-Jorgensen and
Sophia Girgenti and senior
Kate Overbey earned second team honors.
The three Academic All-America selections are a school record and are tied for the most of any Division III school. Hopkins has now produced 15 Academic All-Americans, including eight under head coach
Scott Armstrong.
Alicea-Jorgensen earned her bachelor's in molecular and cellular biology last spring and is currently pursuing a master's in public health. She earned All-America honors three times at last week's NCAA Championships and now counts 10 All-America honors in her career. She placed 13
th in the 50 Free, sixth in the 200 Free Relay and 11
th in the 400 Free Relay to help the Blue Jays to an 11
th place finish.
Alicea-Jorgensen is a research assistant at Johns Hopkins Medicine on complicated monochorionic twin pregnancies. She is a volunteer research assistant at the JHU McMeniman Lab and previously interned at the University of Arizona's BIO5 Institute.
Girgenti is working on a master's in neuroscience after graduating with a bachelor's degree in the same field last May. She garnered All-America honors three times at the NCAA Championships last week and now has 11 in her career. She placed sixth in the 200 Free Relay, eighth in the 800 Free Relay and 11
th in the 400 Free Relay as the Blue Jays placed 11
th as a team.
Girgenti is a lab coordinator in the Stroke Intervention Clinic at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She has published multiple papers on her research on mindfulness therapy in stroke recovery. She also volunteers at Urban Initiatives and Camp Amigos.
Overbey is a neuroscience major and has garnered All-America honors three times in her career. Last summer, she interned as the Program Director at the Greenmount East Leadership Project. She also worked as a lab technician at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in her first three years and was a clinical intern at International Medical Aid in Kenya in the summer of 2021. Overbey is also a math and science tutor for Baltimore First.
