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Bell Earns Spot on Verizon Academic All-America Men’s At-Large Second Team
Senior diver graduated with GPA of 3.99

Seth Bell

June 10, 2003

WASHINGTON — Senior Seth Bell (Jenkinton, Pa./Abington) became the fourth American University student-athlete to earn academic All-American status in the 2002-03 year as he was named to the Verizon Academic All-America Men’s At-Large Second Team today by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Bell, a diver on the swimming and diving team, was named to the All-District 2 University Division At-Large First Team in May to advance to the national ballot.

Bell was the only Patriot League student-athlete chosen among the 45 student-athletes from 12 different sports. To be nominated for the honor, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore with a 3.2 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) and a key member of his team.

A two-year diver for the Eagles, he ranks among the top eight all-time in three different diving events and nabbed a fourth-place finish against UMBC last fall.

Academically, he finished his honors chemistry program with a 3.99 GPA. He was recently honored as the male Outstanding Scholar at the Undergraduate Level from American University. Bell was also given the 2003 Outstanding Chemical Society of Washington, D.C. award and earned the Barry M. Goldwater award.

During his years at AU he wrote an extra capstone (publishable honors work) and took nine graduate classes. Last summer Bell made a presentation entitled “Education through comics - elemental analysis” at the 224th ACS National Meeting and was involved with a research project that was directed toward computer-aided design and synthesis of novel antimycobacterial agents.

He is also the creator of several comic strips including Elemental Analysis and Adventures in Anarchy. He will continue in the PhD program at Princeton this fall.
American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, is in its second year of membership in the Patriot League. Since joining the Patriot League, the University has captured league championships in men’s cross country, women’s lacrosse, women’s cross country, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis and women’s volleyball, and a regular-season title in men’s basketball.
Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.