ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Recent Navy graduate Joshua Steves (Houston, Texas) and rising senior Ellen Bradford (Knoxville, Tenn.) garnered Capital One Academic All-America honors for at-large sports from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday. Steves, a member of the Navy gymnastics team, received second-team honors for the second year in a row while swimmer Bradford earned a first-team nod one year after she garnered third-team laurels.

Additionally, Steves is just the third Navy gymnast to earn Academic All-America honors and the first from the sport to receive the accolade multiple times, while Bradford is the fifth member of the Navy women's swimming team to be tabbed as an Academic All-American and the second from the program to earn multiple laurels.

An honors mathematics major, Steves graduated with a 3.87 grade-point average and an assignment into the submarine program. He previously was recognized for his academic success from the ECAC this year and from the College Gymnastics Association three times. Athletically, Steves was Navy's top gymnast on the rings this year as he earned his way into the NCAA Qualifying Meet with a national qualifying average of 14.8. After struggling with a few injuries early in the 2015 season, he hit his stride down the stretch as he twice posted career-highs of 15.2 on the apparatus in March. In the final NCAA individual statistical rankings, he had the 22nd-best average in the nation.

Bradford ranks first in her class on Navy's Academic Order of Merit with a 4.00 GPA as an honors systems engineering major and is 41st on the Overall Order of Merit. She has twice been tabbed as the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for her sport and has earned First-Team All-Patriot League honors in each of her three seasons. Bradford has qualified for the championship final in each of her nine career individual events at the league meet, winning the 200 breaststroke as both a sophomore and junior and placing second in an event three times over the course of her career. Her efforts have helped the Mids run their string of consecutive Patriot League won to four.