WESTERVILLE, Ohio – Washington University in St. Louis had 56 student-athletes named to the 2026 University Athletic Association (UAA) Winter Academic All-Conference team, as announced by the Association on Thursday.
 
To earn a spot on the All-Academic team, a student-athlete must have completed one full year of college study at their present institution and carry a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5, which is equivalent to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) academic threshold for Academic All-District and Academic All-America honors. This winter, a total of 426 student-athletes were honored with All-Academic accolades, representing approximately 67 percent of the total eligible UAA student-athletes.
 
In a change from previous years, track and field will now only be included in the spring All-Academic list, which will include student-athletes who competed in the winter and/or spring.
 
Women's Basketball (9)
Ava Blagojevich
Hope Drake
Catherine Goodwin
Lexy Harris
Alyssa Hughes
Jordan Rich
Sidney Rogers
Amelia Rosin
Emilee Travnicek
 
Men's Basketball (7)
Kyle Beedon
Ryan Cohen
Jake Davis
George Gale
Will Grudzinski
Yogi Oliff
Lucas Vogel
 
Women's Swimming and Diving (25)
Lindsay Alisbah
Anisa Basler
Rachel Bello
Nicole Caruso
Avery Dixon
Anna Fonda
Izzie Gattone
Holly Gmelich
Becca Hackel
Yasmeen Ibrahim
Kiera Johnson
Shanze Karimi
Natalie Klaas
Rachel Kravtsov
Hannah Lee
Andrea Leng
Kate Li
Madi Okon
Elizabeth Oyler
Julia Pintescu
Iris Qi
Anya Rao
Ali Roche
Maddie Sammut
Lili Sandor
 
Men's Swimming and Diving (15)
Thomas Bergin
Orluke Borjigin
Lucas Caswell
Ethan Feng
Nicholas Frank
Matt Giardinelli
Gabriel Herzlinger
William Little
Marco Minai
Ben Scott
Jack Sieckhaus
Kai Taft
Jacob Tulchinsky
Matthew Walker
Andy Zhu

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