BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins graduate student Brandon Stride and senior Kellen Roddy have been named to the 2024 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America team it was announced today. Roddy was named to the first team and Stride was named to the second team.
 
This is the second straight year and just the third time overall that the Blue Jays have produced multiple CSC (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-Americans in one year. Hopkins has now produced 21 CSC Academic All-Americans, including eight under head coach Scott Armstrong.
 
Roddy is majoring in chemical and biomolecular engineering and earns First Team Academic All-America honors for the second straight year. He is just the third swimmer in program history to earn first team honors twice. Roddy is a two-time national champion in the 1650 Free and is a nine-time All-American. He boasts three of the top-10 times in JHU history in the 500 Free and 1000 Free and four of the top-10 in the 1650 Free. He also owns the JHU pool records in all three events. Roddy is an engineering partner via the JHU Process Design Course. He also interned at MacroGenetics, Inc. and was a chemical engineering fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation.
 
Stride is pursuing a masters in engineering in computer science after earning his bachelors in computer science and mathematics. A two-time Academic All-American, he earned All-America honors since times, including five in the 200 Breast. Stride has three of the top-10 times in the 200 Breast in program history. He is the head course assistant for Principles of Programming Languages, Functional Programming in Software Engineering and Sketching & Indexing for Sequences in the Whiting School of Engineering. He was also an undergraduate researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.