LEBANON, Ill. – McKendree University's Leonardo Frederico (Tijucas-Santa Cantrina, Brazil/Unicesumar) and Xander Skinner (Namibia, Africa/Windhoek Afrikaans Private School) have been named to the 2022 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) NCAA Division II Academic All-District 4 Men's At-Large Team on Thursday afternoon. Both are now eligible for Academic All-America honors.

Frederico, a junior on the Bearcats men's tennis team, collected a 3.94 cumulative grade point average in Economics & Finance and Sports Management, while Skinner, who was a graduate student on the Bearcats men's swimming & diving team, owned a 3.88 GPA pursuing his Master's degree in Business Administration.

With their honors, they become the second and third Bearcat student-athletes to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors this season as junior guard Bryson Bultman (Nashville, Ill./Nashville) was named to the Academic All-District 4 Men's Basketball Team.

Frederico had a historic season in 2021-22 as he became the first McKendree men's tennis player to be named a Conference Player of the Year as the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) named him as the 2022 Men's Tennis Player of the Year. On the season, Frederico was also a First-Team All-GLVC selection and served as the team captain for a Bearcat team that won a school record 21 matches, took home its first-ever GLVC Tournament championship and advanced to the finals of the NCAA Midwest Region 2 Tournament. He posted a 20-4 record playing at the No. 1 singles spot in the line-up, including going undefeated in his six GLVC singles matches and is currently ranked 52nd in the ITA Division II Men's Tennis player rankings. Ended the season winning 12 consecutive singles matches. In doubles, he teamed with graduate student Boriss Kamdem (Ghent, Belgium/University of Tulsa) to post an 18-7 record and a No. 27 ranking in the ITA Division II doubles player rankings. Frederico was a recipient of the GLVC's Br. James Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award for the 2020-21 school year.

Skinner concluded his collegiate career this past March by earning seven All-American honors in the pool at the 2022 NCAA Division II Men's Swimming & Diving Championships. With those seven All-America honors this year, Skinner capped off his Bearcat swim career with 21 All-America certificates. Along with earning seven All-American honors this year, Skinner also captured four gold medals at this year's GLVC Championships as he won first place in the 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle and was on McKendree's gold-medal winning 400 medley relay and 800 freestyle relay teams. In his McKendree career, Skinner won 10 gold medals at the GLVC Championships. At this year's NCAA National Championships, Skinner was a member of McKendree's 400 medley relay team that repeated as the National Runner-up and was a member of the 800 freestyle relay team that also finished as National Runners-up this season. He was a two-time GLVC Men's Swimmer of the Week in 2021-22 and earned four of those honors in his time at McKendree. Skinner was part of a Bearcat men's team that finished third at the 2022 GLVC Championships and fourth at the 2022 NCAA Division II National Championships. Skinner was a recipient of the GLVC's Br. James Gaffney Distinguished Scholar Award for the 2019-20 school year.

Frederico and Skinner were two of the eight student-athletes from GLVC schools named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 4 Men's At-Large Team and McKendree was one of three schools to have multiple selections to the team as the other schools were Lindenwood and Indianapolis.

Here is the complete CoSIDA Academic All-District 4 Men's At-Large Team:

Stuart Brdicka, Tennis, Ashland, Sr., 3.95, Toxicology
Gerald Brown, Swimming & Diving, Lindenwood, Gr., 4.00, Physical Education
Peter Covington, Lacrosse, Lindenwood, Sr., 4.00, Finance
Luka Cvetko, Swimming & Diving, Wayne State (Mich.), Jr., 3.95, Computer Science
Charles Delong, Golf, Grand Valley State, Jr., 3.80, Business Economics / Finance
Leonardo Frederico, Tennis, McKendree, Jr., 3.94, Economics & Finance and Sports Management
Cade Hammond, Swimming & Diving, Indianapolis, Jr., 3.73, Criminal Justice
Andy Huffman, Swimming & Diving, Missouri S&T, Sr., 4.00, Engineering Management
Oliver Mast, Golf, Indianapolis, Gr., 3.70/4.00, Bus. Admin (UG) / Strategic Leadership & Design (G)
Menno Servaes, Tennis, Illinois-Springfield, Sr., 4.00, Business Administration
Xander Skinner, Swimming & Diving, McKendree, Gr., 3.96/3.88, Business Admin. (UG) / MBA (G)