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