27 March 2001
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Carroll, Wente Earn CCIW All-Academic Honors

Senior Todd Wente and junior Kathy Carroll are Illinois Wesleyan's winter sports Jack Swartz Academic All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Award honorees.

Two honorees are chosen from each school each athletic season and must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2. The award was named in May 1996 for long-time CCIW commissioner Jack Swartz, a 1952 Wheaton graduate who was the Crusaders' head coach in football and tennis and served the school as athletic director and physical education chair from 1958 until his death in 1997.

Carroll (Orland Park, Sandburg HS) earned the highest finish ever for an IWU women's swimmer at the NCAA Division III championships when she placed eighth in the 400-meter individual medley with a time of 4:37.85. She was 14th in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:07.61 and placed 16th in the 1,650 free with a mark of 17:35.47 at the national meet.
Carroll, IWU's lone representative at the national meet, amassed 15 points, which was good for 36th place as a team, the best-ever finish for the Titans and higher than 13 other teams, some with as many as five competitors.
Carroll, a two-time "Most Outstanding Performer" in the CCIW meet, won the 500 freestyle, the 400 individual medley, and the 1650 freestyle with conference record-setting times at the CCIW meet this winter.
Academically she is a political science and business double major with a 3.24 grade-point average.

Wente (Effingham, St. Anthony HS) averaged 10.2 points and 5.4 rebounds per game for the Titans, who finished third in the national Division III tournament. A starter in 28 games, he led the team with 50 steals, was second with 61 assists, and connected on 52.3 percent of his field goal tries (115 of 220). Wente led the Titans in rebounding in eight games, including the final two of the season at the national championships, and had two "double-doubles" with the most recent being in the third place game against Ohio Northern, when he had 12 points and 13 rebounds.
He is the first IWU player to lead the CCIW in steals with 2.1 in 14 league games.
Academically, he has a 3.49 grade-point average as a biology/pre-med major. He is a member of Beta Beta Beta, a national honorary for biology majors, and Phi Eta Sigma, a national scholastic honorary for freshmen men.