# List of Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

The Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the annual most outstanding singular athlete of the set of specific sport athletes selected the All-America Team Member of the Year for their specific sport. This is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (CSC; known before the 2022–23 school year as the College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA) and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the approximately 2,000 annual Academic All-America selections.
Since the 2019 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. A fourth division, introduced with the 2019 award cycle, is for National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) members. The College Division 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 the combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in each sport across the United States and Canada. First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all 16 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, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's and women's tennis, and men's and women's at-large teams) have one Academic All-American of the Year for each NCAA division and NAIA. One of these 16 sport-by-sport Academic All-America Team Members of the Year is selected as the overall Academic All-America of the Year for each division.
Five individuals have been named winners twice—Sarah Pavan of Nebraska in 2007 and 2008 for what was then called the University Division, Maryanne Gong of MIT in Division III and Leah Esposito of Carroll College in Montana in the College Division, both in 2016 and 2017, Giovanna Tapigliani of Missouri Baptist in the NAIA in 2021 and 2022, and Caitlin Clark of Iowa in Division I in 2023 and 2024.

## Tables of winners
### Single program (1987–1995)

Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (1987–1995) :
| Year | Winner | School | Sport |
| 1987–88 | Michael Smith | Brigham Young | Basketball |
| 1988–89 | James Martin | Penn State | Wrestling |
| 1989–90 | Alec Kessler | Georgia | Basketball |
| 1990–91 | Al Parker | Georgia | Tennis |
| 1991–92 | Tommy Vardell | Stanford | Football |
| 1992–93 | Jim Hansen | Colorado | Football |
| 1993–94 | Carl Erikson | Oberlin | Tennis |
| 1994–95 | Rebecca Lobo | UConn | Basketball |
| 1994–95 | Rob Zatechka | Nebraska | Football |

### Two-division era (1996–2010)

Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (1996–2010) :
| Year | University Division | University Division | University Division | University Division | College Division | College Division | College Division | College Division |
| Year | Winner | School | School | Sport | Winner | School | School | Sport |
| 1995–96 | Todd Fuller | | NC State | Basketball | Chris Palmer | | Saint John's (MN) | Football |
| 1996–97 | Danny Wuerffel | | Florida | Football | Julie Roe | | Millikin | Basketball |
| 1997–98 | Peyton Manning | | Tennessee | Football | Brad Gray | | MIT | Football |
| 1998–99 | Matt Stinchcomb | | Georgia | Football | Kelly Schade | | Simpson | Softball |
| 1999–2000 | Chad Pennington | | Marshall | Football | Korey Coon | | Illinois Wesleyan | Basketball |
| 2000–01 | Ruth Riley | | Notre Dame | Basketball | Emily Bloss | | Emporia State | Basketball |
| 2001–02 | Stacey Dales-Schuman | | Oklahoma | Basketball | T.J. Hess | | Widener | Football |
| 2002–03 | Theresa Kulikowski | | Utah | Gymnastics | Ashley Rowatt | | Kenyon | Swimming |
| 2003–04 | Emeka Okafor | | UConn | Basketball | Kristen Shields | | Whitworth | Track & field |
| 2004–05 | Alex Smith | | Utah | Football | Carli Dale | | Juniata | Volleyball |
| 2005–06 | Christine Sinclair | | Portland | Soccer | Josh Lamberson | | Northwest Missouri State | Football |
| 2006–07 | Sarah Pavan | | Nebraska | Volleyball | Jamie Wolf | | Clarion | Diving |
| 2007–08 | Sarah Pavan | | Nebraska | Volleyball | Troy Ruths | | Washington (MO) | Basketball |
| 2008–09 | Galen Rupp | | Oregon | Track & field/Cross country | Greg Micheli | | Mount Union | Football |
| 2009–10 | Justine Schluntz | | Arizona | Swimming | Jessica Pixler | | Seattle Pacific | Track & field/Cross country |
| 2010–11 | Maya Moore | | UConn | Basketball | Shannon Gagne | | New Haven | Track & field/Cross country |

### Four-division era (2011–present)

Academic All-America Team Members of the Year (2011–present) :
| Year | Division I | Division I | Division I | Division I | Division II | Division II | Division II | Division II | Division III | Division III | Division III | Division III | College/NAIA | College/NAIA | College/NAIA | College/NAIA |
| Year | Winner | School | School | Sport | Winner | School | School | Sport | Winner | School | School | Sport | Winner | School | School | Sport |
| 2011–12 | Brooke Pancake | | Alabama | Golf | Bryan Lippincott | | Concordia (MN) | Baseball | Drew Golz | | Wheaton | Baseball/Soccer | Jamie Achten | | Lee | Soccer |
| 2012–13 | Barrett Jones | | Alabama | Football | Kari Daugherty | | Ashland | Basketball | Colton Hunt | | Randolph (VA) | Basketball | Mia Persson | | Lindsey Wilson | Soccer |
| 2013–14 | Kim Jacob | | Alabama | Gymnastics | Lauren Battista | | Bentley | Basketball | Christy Cazzola | | Wisconsin–Oshkosh | Cross country/Track & field | Stephen Lunney | | Martin Methodist | Soccer |
| 2014–15 | Matt Brown | | Penn State | Wrestling | Kristin Day | | Clarion | Diving | John Coleman | | Clarkson | Basketball/Baseball | Wanessa Siqueira | | Park | Volleyball |
| 2015–16 | Carson Wentz | | North Dakota State | Football | Jason Vander Laan | | Ferris State | Football | Maryann Gong | | MIT | Cross country/Track & field | Leah Esposito | | Carroll (MT) | Cross country, Track & field |
| 2016–17 | Sarah Gibson | | Texas A&M | Swimming | Marie Coors | | Saint Leo | Golf | Maryann Gong (2) | | MIT | Cross country/Track & field | Leah Esposito (2) | | Carroll (MT) | Cross country, Track & field |
| 2017–18 | Katie Ledecky | | Stanford | Swimming | Alicja Konieczek | | Western State Colorado | Cross country, Track & field | Cooper Cook | | Nebraska Wesleyan | Basketball | Kyle Steigenga | | Cornerstone | Basketball |
| 2018–19 | Lexi Jacobus | | Arkansas | Track & field | Charlie Bertrand | | Merrimack | Lacrosse | Abby Bertics | | MIT | Volleyball | Christina Klouda | | Cumberlands (KY) | Swimming |
| 2018–19 | Lexi Jacobus | | Arkansas | Track & field | Charlie Bertrand | | Merrimack | Lacrosse | Abby Bertics | | MIT | Volleyball | Margaret Pham | | British Columbia | Field hockey |
| 2019–20 | Justin Herbert | | Oregon | Football | Amanda Kautzer | | Michigan Tech | Skiing | Bebe Wang | | Denison | Swimming | Grace Barry | | Concordia (NE) | Basketball |
| 2020–21 | Mac Jones | | Alabama | Football | Rachel Massaro | | Queens (NC) | Swimming | Hanna Hull | | Virginia Wesleyan | Softball | Giovanna Tapigliani | | Missouri Baptist | Volleyball |
| 2021-22 | Aliyah Boston | | South Carolina | Basketball | Trevor Bassitt | | Ashland | Track & field | Esther Seeland | | Messiah | Track & field | Giovanna Tapigliani (2) | | Missouri Baptist | Volleyball |
| 2022-23 | Caitlin Clark | | Iowa | Basketball | John Matocha | | Colorado Mines | Football | Kenadee Wayt | | Mount Union | Track & field | Mackenzie Selvius | | Spring Arbor | Soccer |
| 2023-24 | Caitlin Clark | | Iowa | Basketball | Samantha Pirosko | | Gannon | Basketball | Owen Grover | | Wartburg | Football | Grace Beyer | | UHSP | Basketball |