Ten Bruins Selected to Academic All-District At-Large Teams

Ten Bruins were named to the 2023 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® At-Large Teams, which recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in the athletic realm and in the classroom.
 
Three members of the UCLA men’s water polo squad – Gianpiero Di Martire, Gabe Discipulo and Evan Rosenfeld – were selected to the Men’s At-Large Team, along with men’s volleyball NCAA champion Ethan Champlin and golfer Pablo Ereño. The Women’s At-Large Team features five Bruins from five different sports – Caroline Canales from women’s golf, Mia Glinn from rowing, Emma Malabuyo from gymnastics, Abby Van Winkle from beach volleyball and Ava Johnson from women’s water polo.
 
Redshirt sophomore Di Martire was second on the UCLA men’s water polo team and 11^th in the MPSF in scoring with 43 goals during the 2022 season. The attacker from Naples, Italy led the Bruins and was seventh in the league in assists with 32 and paced the Bruin offense with 75 points. The business-economics major is a three-time Pac-12 Fall All-Academic Team member and a second-team All-MPSF performer in 2022. He has also twice been named to the MPSF All-Academic Team and has earned ACWPC All-Academic honors three times.
 
Discipulo scored 14 goals and led the Bruins and was third in the MPSF in exclusions drawn with 46 during the 2022 campaign. The senior center and sociology major from Santa Cruz, Calif., was the Elite 90 Award winner in 2021 and an honorable mention All-MPSF selection in 2020. The four-time ACWPC All-Academic honoree is also a three-time MPSF All-Academic Team member and has been named to the Pac-12 Fall All-Academic Team three times.
 
Champlin, a business-economics major from Oceanside, Calif., helped lead the Bruins to the 2023 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship. The junior outside hitter was a first-team AVCA All-American and All-MPSF selection this season, as well as a member of the MPSF All-Academic Team. Champlin produced 14 double-digit kill matches during the year, including a career-high of 19 kills in a win at Pepperdine, and also tied his career-best with six block assists in two matches. Champlin was credited with a career-best 12 digs in the NCAA title match win over Hawai’i. He rated 21st in the NCAA with a .349 attack percentage for the 2023 season and was 31st in the NCAA…