Caroline Depew wins All-America honors at 2014 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships

2014 Mar 25

Bates College swimmer Caroline Depew received All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Championships, held March 19 to March 22, in Indianapolis, Ind.

Depew received All-America honors this year for her top-16 finish against the nation's best Division III collegiate swimmers in the 800-yard freestyle relay, in which she and teammates Sara Daher, Lindsey Prelgovisk and Julia Smachlo finished 10th.

Depew, a 2012 graduate of Western Reserve Academy, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Depew of Hudson, Ohio. She is majoring in sociology at Bates.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.