Seven Bucknell Swimmers Earn Academic All-Patriot League Honors in Union County

The Patriot League office announced on Feb. 26, 2026 that seven Bucknell University student-athletes were selected to the Academic All-Patriot League swimming and diving teams, four women and three men, in a conference release posted after the Patriot League championships. Bucknell University in Lewisburg placed the most athletes from a single school on the lists, with seniors Jennifer Bolden, Kyla Kelly and Braden Beagle among the honorees.

The Patriot League roster lists the seven Bucknell honorees by name and class year: Jennifer Bolden, Sr.; Sydney Dettmann, Jr.; Kyla Kelly, Sr.; Clara Renner, So.; Braden Beagle, Sr.; Jack Krug, Sr.; and James Lombardi, Jr. The Bucknell athletics page timestamped 2/26/2026 3:00:00 PM specifically names Renner, Bolden, Kelly and Dettmann in its announcement header, corroborating the four women cited on the conference list.

Each Academic All-Patriot League squad is an 18-member roster, creating 36 total slots across the men’s and women’s teams; Bucknell’s seven selections therefore represent roughly 19 percent of the combined Academic All-Patriot League roster. The Patriot League release stated, "Eight of the 10 schools were represented on this year’s Academic All-Patriot League men’s and women’s teams, with Bucknell placing seven members on the two teams (four women, three men), while Army West Point (four women, two men), Loyola Maryland (four men, two women) and Navy (three men, three women) each had six selections."

Member-school releases show some variation from the Patriot League master lists. American University published its own "Academic All-League Team" lists that include different Bucknell names such as Derek Knight, Maddie Hartigan and Maggie Wyngowski and that highlight American athletes' academic details; American's release notes that Liam Riebling is a Strategic Communications graduate student with a 4.0 cumulative GPA and that Ellie Kight is a Public Health major with a 3.98 GPA. The American University copy uses the phrase, "The pair were also named to their respective Academic All-Patriot League Teams, comprised of other swimming and diving student-athletes from the Patriot League."

Because the Patriot League office provides the conference release and the full men’s and women’s rosters, its lists serve as the primary, authoritative record for the 2026 Academic All-Patriot League selections; Bucknell’s athletics announcement aligns with the Patriot League roster for the four Bucknell women. The conference release also references other roster members by name and class year across the two 18-member teams, including Army West Point’s Joey Kling, Navy’s Ben Irwin, and Loyola Maryland standouts listed on the full rosters.

The Academic All-Patriot League honors announced Feb. 26, 2026 will stand as the conference’s official recognition for the 2025-26 swimming and diving season unless the Patriot League issues corrections; Bucknell’s seven honorees are recorded on the conference lists and on Bucknell’s athletics page.