NESCAC NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award Winners
(updated through 5/21/2026)
Total: 31 honorees in 13 different sports
Breakdown by Institution: Amherst (1), Bowdoin (1), Colby (2), Middlebury (8), Trinity (1), Tufts (6), Wesleyan (4), Williams (7)
Breakdown by Sport: Men's Basketball (2), Women's Basketball (1), Field Hockey (2), Men's Lacrosse (5), Women's Lacrosse (6), Women's Rowing (3), Men's Soccer (3), Women's Soccer (1)
Men's Swimming & Diving (1), Women's Swimming & Diving (1), Men's Tennis (4), Women's Tennis (1), Men's Track & Field (1)
Three-Time Winner: Hope Shue, Middlebury women's lacrosse (first Division III women's lacrosse player to win the award three times)
NCAA Elite Scholar-Athlete Award Database: click here
| Year |
Name |
School |
Sport |
Major |
GPA |
| 2010 |
Liz Zhu |
Williams College |
Women's Rowing |
Economics and Religion |
3.90 |
| 2010 |
Nick Pugliese |
Williams College |
Men's Soccer |
Political Science |
4.00 |
| 2010 |
Sarah Cannon |
Tufts University |
Field Hockey |
Mathematics |
4.00 |
| 2011 |
Bryan Chow |
Williams College |
Men's Tennis |
Political Science |
4.00 |
| 2011 |
DJ Hessler |
Tufts University |
Men's Lacrosse |
Biomedical Engineering |
3.49 |
| 2011 |
Michael Gale |
Bowdoin College |
Men's Soccer |
Undeclared |
3.93 |
| 2011 |
Sean Hoffmann |
Williams College |
Men's Basketball |
Political Science |
3.78 |
| 2012 |
Bryan Chow |
Williams College |
Men's Tennis |
Classics and Biology |
3.94 |
| 2013 |
Alice Pfeifer |
Middlebury College |
Women's Lacrosse |
English |
3.77 |
| 2014 |
Brianne Wiemann |
Wesleyan University |
Women's Rowing |
Biology |
4.00 |
| 2014 |
Jacob Tamposi |
Williams College |
Men's Swimming and Diving |
Math and Economics |
3.97 |
| 2016 |
Evie Keating |
Middlebury College |
Women's Lacrosse |
Conservation Biology |
3.79 |
| 2016 |
Tyler Olney |
Tufts University |
Men's Lacrosse |
Mechanical Engineering |
3.85 |
| 2017 |
Tobias Mullers |
Williams College |
Men's Indoor Track |
Chemistry |
3.90 |
| 2017 |
Vlad Murad |
Colby College |
Men's Tennis |
Computer Science and Math |
3.98 |
| 2018 |
Carter Hawthorne |
Wesleyan University |
Men's Lacrosse |
Economics and Psychology |
3.84 |
| 2018 |
Christinia Puccinelli |
Middlebury College |
Women's Tennis |
Mathematics |
4.00 |
| 2018 |
Meghan Sullivan |
Amherst College |
Women's Basketball |
Math |
3.98 |
| 2018 |
Sophia Shoulson |
Wesleyan University |
Women's Rowing |
German Studies |
4.00 |
| 2019 |
Jackson Herrick |
Amherst College |
Men's Lacrosse |
Economics and Computer Science |
3.98 |
| 2021 |
Isaac Gorelik |
Tufts University |
Men's Tennis |
Data Science and Applied Mathematics |
3.98 |
| 2022 |
Julia Meehan |
Wesleyan University |
Women's Soccer |
Economics |
4.00 |
| 2023 |
Cody Wiebe |
Tufts University |
Men's Lacrosse |
Mechanical Engineering |
4.00 |
| 2023 |
Hope Shue |
Middlebury College |
Women's Lacrosse |
Neuroscience |
4.00 |
| 2023 |
Meg Shelburne |
Middlebury College |
Field Hockey |
History and Political Science |
4.00 |
| 2024 |
Eleanor McGrath |
Colby College |
Women's Swimming and Diving |
Environmental Science |
4.00 |
| 2024 |
Hope Shue |
Middlebury College |
Women's Lacrosse |
Neuroscience |
4.00 |
| 2024 |
Gavin Randolph |
Middlebury College |
Men's Soccer |
Computer Science and Economics |
4.00 |
| 2025 |
Hope Shue |
Middlebury College |
Women's Lacrosse |
Neuroscience |
4.00 |
| 2025 |
Samuel Norris |
Trinity College |
Men's Basketball |
Economics |
3.97 |
| 2026 |
Nicola Donlan |
Tufts University |
Women's Lacrosse |
Cognitive Brain Science |
4.00 |