The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) named Linfield defensive lineman Travis Swanson ’21 to the Academic All-America Division III Football team. Swanson is among 51 honorees, and the only one from a Division III college or university on the West Coast.
Swanson earned a GPA of 3.88. A native of Hailey, Idaho, and graduate of Wood River High School, he is a psychology major and plans on attending medical school after this fall.
Swanson is only the 21st Linfield student-athlete to achieve CoSIDA Academic All-America status since 2004 and the fifth Linfield football student-athlete. Wyatt Smith ’22 (football) and Sydney Kuehn ’20 (women’s soccer) were the last honorees in 2019.