List of Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

List of Academic All-America Team Members of the Year is a list of the annual selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the approximately 1640 annual Academic All-America selections. Since the 2012 awards, one winner has been chosen for each of four divisions. Three of the divisions correspond directly to the three divisions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)—Division I, Division II, and Division III. The College Division, which previously included all institutions outside of NCAA Division I, now includes only non-NCAA institutions—namely NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) members, two-year colleges and Canadian schools.^[1] Between 1996 and 2011 one winner each was chosen from both the College and University Divisions of 816 annual selections. Between 1988 and 1995 one winner was chosen per year.^[2] The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.

Prior to 2012, the University Division team included eligible participants from NCAA Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA, Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.^[3]

Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) has one Academic All-American of the Year for every division. One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-American of the years is selected as the Academic All-America Team Members of the Year for each division.^[4]

Three individuals have been named winners twice—Sarah Pavan of Nebraska in 2007 and 2008 for what was then called the University Division, and Maryanne Gong of MIT and Leah Esposito of Carroll College in Montana in 2016 and 2017, respectively in Division III and the College Division.

Division I (formerly University Division)

Note: All athletes are American unless otherwise indicated.

Year	Name	School	Sport
1987–88	Michael Smith	Brigham Young University	Basketball
1988–89	James Martin	Pennsylvania State University	Wrestling
1989–90	Alec Kessler	University of Georgia	Basketball
1990–91	Al Parker	University of Georgia	Tennis
1991–92	Tommy Vardell	Stanford University	Football
1992–93	Jim Hansen	University of Colorado Boulder	Football
1993–94	Carl Erikson	Oberlin College	Tennis
1994–95	Rebecca Lobo	University of Connecticut	Basketball
	Rob Zatechka	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Football
1995–96	Todd Fuller	North Carolina State University	Basketball
1996–97	Danny Wuerffel	University of Florida	Football
1997–98	Peyton Manning	University of Tennessee	Football
1998–99	Matt Stinchcomb	University of Georgia	Football
1999–2000	Chad Pennington	Marshall University	Football
2000–01	Ruth Riley	University of Notre Dame	Basketball
2001–02	Stacey Dales-Schuman	University of Oklahoma	Basketball
2002–03	Theresa Kulikowski	University of Utah	Gymnastics
2003–04	Emeka Okafor	University of Connecticut	Basketball
2004–05	Alex Smith	University of Utah	Football
2005–06	Christine Sinclair	University of Portland	Soccer
2006–07	Sarah Pavan	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Volleyball
2007–08	Sarah Pavan	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	Volleyball
2008–09	Galen Rupp	University of Oregon	Track/Cross Country
2009–10	Justine Schluntz	University of Arizona	Swimming
2010–11	Maya Moore	University of Connecticut	Basketball
2011–12	Brooke Pancake[5]	University of Alabama	Golf
2012–13	Barrett Jones[6]	University of Alabama	Football
2013–14	Kim Jacob[7]	University of Alabama	Gymnastics
2014–15	Matt Brown[8]	Pennsylvania State University	Wrestling
2015–16	Carson Wentz[9]	North Dakota State University	Football
2016–17	Sarah Gibson[10]	Texas A&M University	Swimming
2017-18	Katie Ledecky[11]	Stanford University	Swimming

Division II

Division III

College Division

Year	Name	School	Sport
1995–96	Chris Palmer	Saint John's University (MN)	Football
1996–97	Julie Roe	Millikin University	Basketball
1997–98	Brad Gray	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Football
1998–99	Kelly Schade	Simpson College	Softball
1999–2000	Korey Coon	Illinois Wesleyan University	Basketball
2000–01	Emily Bloss	Emporia State University	Basketball
2001–02	T.J. Hess	Widener College	Football
2002–03	Ashley Rowatt	Kenyon College	Swimming
2003–04	Kristen Shields	Whitworth University	Track & Field
2004–05	Carli Dale	Juniata College	Volleyball
2005–06	Josh Lamberson	Northwest Missouri State University	Football
2006–07	Jamie Wolf	Clarion University	Diving
2007–08	Troy Ruths	Washington University in St. Louis	Basketball
2008–09	Greg Micheli	Mount Union College	Football
2009–10	Jessica Pixler	Seattle Pacific University	Track/Cross Country
2010–11	Shannon Gagne	University of New Haven	Track/Cross Country
2011–12	Jamie Achten[24]	Lee University	Soccer
2012–13	Mia Persson[25]	Lindsey Wilson College	Soccer
2013–14	Stephen Lunney[26]	Martin Methodist College	Soccer
2014–15	Wanessa Siqueira[27]	Park University	Volleyball
2015–16	Leah Esposito[28]	Carroll College (Montana)	Cross country, track and field
2016–17	Leah Esposito[29]	Carroll College (Montana)	Cross country, track and field

See also

• Walter Byers Scholarship

Notes

External links

• Academic All-America information page