AUSTIN, Texas -- Augustana Senior wrestler Ben Kelvington, senior golfer Hannah Hankinson and junior swimmer Taylor Beagle have been recognized on the 2019-20 CoSIDA Division II Academic All-America At-Large teams CoSIDA announced Thursday morning. 

Overall, the NSIC had five institutions and seven athletes represented on the teams, with Augustana having three of them. No other NSIC institution had more than one athlete recognized on the teams. 

The at-large program for the CoSIDA Academic All-America® program includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo for both men and women; bowling, crew and field hockey for women; and volleyball and wrestling for men.  

Kelvington, a biochemistry major with a 3.99 GPA, earned first team honors and is the seventh wrestler in Viking history to garner CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Kelvington did it all during the 2019-20 wrestling season. He ranked No. 9 in the country going into regionals, earned All-America honors after qualifying for nationals with a 3-1 record at the tournament and 15-5 record overall on the season. Kelvington has also taken home NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence honors, Academic All-America honors, the NSIC Elite 18 award, NCAA Elite 90 award and most recently, the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. 

Beagle earns the first Academic All-America honor in program history for Augustana swimming. She is a biology major with a 3.97 GPA while earning second team All-America accolades. The NSIC Swimmer of the Year took home first place in the 1000-yard freestyle, 400-yard IM and 1650 yard freestyle at the NSIC Championships. She qualified for nationals in the 1000-yard freestyle and 1650-yard freestyle, earning All-America honors. Beagle also earned a spot on the NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence.

Hankinson, a nursing major with a 3.94 GPA, earned third team honors and is the second Viking golfer to garner CoSIDA All-America honors with Maggie Leland being the first women's golfer to do so back in 2012. Hankinson, after being named the NSIC Golfer of the Year for the 2018-19 season, was named the NSIC Preseason Golfer of the Year and earned five top-ten and four top-five finishes through seven events in the shortened season. The senior placed first at the Tracy Lane Memorial on Sept. 9-10 with a two-round score of 148. Hankinson also earned a spot on the NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence and WGCA Division II All-Region Team.

Throughout the 2019-20 academic year, Augustana has now garnered six Academic All-America accolades from CoSIDA.