Five Wildcats Named All-Big Ten

Junior Matt Grevers is the Big Ten Co-Swimmer of the Year.

2/26/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving

Feb. 26, 2006

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Five Wildcats have earned All-Big Ten honors, while junior Matt Grevers (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest) was named the conference Co-Swimmer of the Year for the second time in his career.

Grevers' superlative is his fourth from the Big Ten. He was named Freshman of the Year and Co-Swimmer of the Year in 2004, and Swimmer of the Championships in 2005.

Junior Mike Alexandrov (Champaign, Ill./Centennial), sophomore Kyle Bubolz (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) and senior Ben Dexter (Indianapolis, Ind./Roncalli) joined Grevers on the first team, while freshman Eric Nilsson (Weston, Mass./Weston) was tabbed for the second team.

Alexandrov and Grevers now are three-time first-team All-Big Ten selections, while Bubolz and Dexter are two-time honorees.

To view the complete list of honorees, link to bigten.org.