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 2019 awards, one winner has been chosen for each of five divisions. Three of the divisions correspond directly to the three divisions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association —Division I, Division II, and Division III. A fourth division, introduced with the 2019 award cycle, is for National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics members. The last of the five is the College Division, which currently includes U.S. four-year institutions that are not NCAA or NAIA members, Canadian universities and colleges, and two-year colleges. The College Division was introduced in 1996, covering not only those institutions in today's College Division but also NCAA institutions outside Division I and NAIA members. After the 2011 award cycle, NCAA Divisions II and III were spun off from the College Division and given their own Academic All-America teams. NCAA Division I has had its own Academic All-America team since 1996—originally as the University Division, and since 2012 under its own name. Between 1988 and 1995, only one winner was chosen per year across all institutions participating in the program. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.
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 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.
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.
YearNameSchoolSport
1987–88Basketball
1988–89Wrestling
1989–90Basketball
1990–91Tennis
1991–92Stanford UniversityFootball
1992–93Football
1993–94Oberlin CollegeTennis
1994–95Basketball
1994–95Football
1995–96North Carolina State UniversityBasketball
1996–97Football
1997–98Football
1998–99Football
1999–2000Marshall UniversityFootball
2000–01Basketball
2001–02 Basketball
2002–03Gymnastics
2003–04Basketball
2004–05Football
2005–06 Soccer
2006–07 Volleyball
2007–08 Volleyball
2008–09Track/Cross Country
2009–10Swimming
2010–11Basketball
2011–12Golf
2012–13Football
2013–14Gymnastics
2014–15Pennsylvania State UniversityWrestling
2015–16North Dakota State UniversityFootball
2016–17Texas A&M UniversitySwimming
2017–18Stanford UniversitySwimming
2018–19Track & field
2019–20Football

Division II

Division III

NAIA

College Division

Included NCAA schools outside Division I from 1996–2011, and NAIA members from 1996–2018.
YearNameSchoolSport
1995–96Chris PalmerSaint John's University Football
1996–97Julie RoeMillikin UniversityBasketball
1997–98Brad GrayMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFootball
1998–99Kelly SchadeSimpson CollegeSoftball
1999–2000Korey CoonIllinois Wesleyan UniversityBasketball
2000–01Emily BlossEmporia State UniversityBasketball
2001–02T.J. HessWidener CollegeFootball
2002–03Ashley RowattKenyon CollegeSwimming
2003–04Kristen ShieldsWhitworth UniversityTrack & Field
2004–05Carli DaleJuniata CollegeVolleyball
2005–06Josh LambersonNorthwest Missouri State UniversityFootball
2006–07Jamie WolfClarion UniversityDiving
2007–08Troy RuthsWashington University in St. LouisBasketball
2008–09Greg MicheliMount Union CollegeFootball
2009–10Jessica PixlerSeattle Pacific UniversityTrack/Cross Country
2010–11Shannon GagneTrack/Cross Country
2011–12Lee UniversitySoccer
2012–13 Lindsey Wilson CollegeSoccer
2013–14 Martin Methodist CollegeSoccer
2014–15 Park UniversityVolleyball
2015–16Carroll College Cross country, track and field
2016–17Carroll College Cross country, track and field
2017–18Cornerstone UniversityBasketball
2018–19 Field hockey