La Crosse, Wis. - Four members of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's swimming & diving team have been named to the 2025-26 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Academic All-District® Team, selected by the College Sports Communicators (CSC), the organization announced.

Junior Libby Cleveland of Sheboygan (North) and sophomores Ava Pulvermacher of Madison (West), Zoey Rank of Fort Atkinson (Jefferson) and Hannah Wadholm of Delano, Minn. (H.S.) earned academic honors.  It is the second straight year Cleveland has been named to the CSC Academic All-District® Team.

Majoring in exercise sport science pre-medicine track and minoring in chemistry, Cleveland maintains a 4.00 cumulative grade point average. She placed fourth in the 50 and 100 freestyle at this year's Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships and sixth in the 100 backstroke. She was on UWL's winning 200 and 400 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay and second-place 400 medley relay.

A two-year member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll, Cleveland has been on UWL's Dean's List five semesters and is a Golden Key International Honor Society Scholarship recipient. She has volunteered for Wafer Food Pantry, La Crosse Rotary Lights, The Little Hearts Project, Marsh Clean-Up, Polar Plunge and UWL's Bubba's Night. Cleveland has also volunteered for the The Ronald McDonald House Charities Pop Tab Program.

A double major in accounting and finance with a 3.82 grade point average, Pulvermacher won the 400 I.M. at this year's WIAC Championships while also finishing second in the 200 butterfly. She was on the first-place 200 and 400 freestyle relay and second-place 400 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay.

She has been on UWL's Dean's List for three semesters and a member of the 2024-25 WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. Pulvermacher earned the UWL Soaring Eagle Scholaship while volunteering with The Salvation Army, Polar Plunge and Bubba's Night.

Rank maintains a 3.83 grade point average while majoring in management. She won the 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke and 200 I.M. at the 2026 WIAC Championships. Rank was on UWL's winning 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay this year as well as the second-place 400 medley relay. Rank was the 2024-25 WIAC Newcomer of the Year.

She has been a member of UWL's Dean's List for three semesters and on the 2024-25 WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll. Rank earned the Golden Eagle Award last year and earned the Carpenter-Lounds Memorial Scholarship and Harvey Melster Memorial Scholarship.

Wadholm is an elementary/middle education major and language and literature minor with a 3.80 grade point average. She placed sixth in the 100 freestyle and 100 breaststroke at this season's conference championships. Wadholm was also seventh in the 50 freestyle.

She was named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll last season and has been a member of UWL's Dean's List for three semesters. Wadholm has volunteered as a tutor and mentor at Hamilton Elementary School while also volunteering as a Sunday School teacher. She has also helped with The Salvation Army.

The 2025-26 Academic All-District® Women's Swimming & Diving Team, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in the pool and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes swimming & diving honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.

Academic All-District® honorees are considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced April 28, 2026. 

The Division II and III CSC Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CSC with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2025-26 Divisions II and III Academic All-America® programs. The NAIA CSC Academic All-America® program is partially financially supported through the NAIA governance structure.