2025 Academic Awards

Team Academic National Champions

  1. Stanford: 3.7064

  2. Illinois: 3.6775

  3. Springfield: 3.6276

  4. Simpson: 3.5825

  5. Penn State: 3.4825

  6. William & Mary: 3.4303

  7. Michigan: 3.3455

  8. Greenville: 3.3984

  9. Nebraska: 3.3369

  10. Oklahoma: 3.3263

All CGA affiliated teams completed the year with cumulative GPA's above 3.1. CGA member institutions combined for a GPA of 3.3998. 

Individual Academic Awards:

Elite 90: Matt Burgoyne (Oklahoma) 

The Elite 90 award is given to the competitor with the highest cumulative GPA at each of the 90 National Championships sponsored by the NCAA. 

In addition to the Elite 90 the NCAA publishes a list of First and Second Team Academic All-Americans.

First team: (4.0-3.5 Cumulative GPA)

Army:
Jaden Blank, Jacob Brenner, Joseph Buselmeier

California:
Matteo Bardana, Theodor Roald Gadderud, Aidan Li, Jasper Smith-Gordon, Tyler Shimizu, Tucker Yasunaga

Greenville:
Charlie Kramer, Ethan Poole, Kevin Laurino, Rylan Barnes, Jaxon Clapper, Donovan Diviney, Andres Esquivel-Garza, Jacob Foster, Kyler Hinson, Andrew Ricard, Matthew Roth

Illinois:
Hasan Aydogdu, Max Farkhadau, Will Hauke, Kyle Mayotte, Connor Micklos, Logan Myers, Preston Ngai, Matthew Vu Nguyen, Vahe Petrosyan, Ian Sandoval, Garett Schooley, Amari Sewell, Dylan Shepard, Ryan Vanichtheeranont, Nathan Whitaker

Michigan:
Landen Blixt, Kevin Chow, Zach Granados, Jake Islam, Alexander Istock, Aaronson Mansberger, Lais Najjar, Akshay Puri, Rithik Puri, Christopher Read, Frederick Richard, Kyle Walchyk, Pierce Wolfgang, William Young

Navy:
William Champagne, Daniel Gurevich, Vishal Mandava

Nebraska:
Taylor Christopulos, Yianni Chronopoulos, Caden Clinton, Asher Cohen, Luke James, Anthony Koppie, Chase Mondi, Alex Nitache, Zac Tiderman

Ohio State:
Arthur Ashton, Conlon Simpkins, Drake Andrews, Jace Hasimoto, Jacob Harmon, Justin Ciccone, Kameron Nelson, Thomas Thackston, Tyler Rockwood

Oklahoma:
Matthew Burgoyne, Kelton Christiansen, Emre Dodanli, Leo Kioke, Zachary Nunez, Mac Seyler, Ignacio Yockers, Brandon Zepeda Orth

Penn State:
Michael Artlip, Ethan Dick, Luke Esparo, Kacper Garczarek, Ian Raubal, Matthew Underhill

Simpson:
Alex Campbell, Jack Campbell, Alex Catchpole, Sean Davidson, Ethan Drake, Braxton Jones, Noah Koos, Brian Rollison, Christian Romero, Milo Staley, Jake Sweeten, Brennan Voss

Springfield:
Mathew Browne, Owen Carney, Carter Cochardo, Devon Felsenstein, Felix Kriedemann, Jaden Laubstain, Giovanni Mantia, Kojiro Motoki, Evan Reichert, Cameron Rhymes, Gustavin Suess

Stanford:
Mark Berlaga, Jeremy Bischoff, Kai Uemura, Cooper Kim, Markus Kushner, David Shamah, Zach Green, Arun Chhetri, Xander Hong, Kaien J-Spencer, Ian Lasic Ellis, Wade Nelson, Luke McFarland, Marcus Pietarinen, Brandon Nguyen

William & Mary:
Alexander Grapsas, Connor Barrow, David Moroney, Evan Sikra, Gavin Zborowski, Jonathan Irwin, Jared Noyman, Mark Fu, Michael Weiner, Niko Greenly, William Harrington, Zachary Patrick

Second Team: (3.499-3.2 Cumulative GPA) 

Army:
Gabe Almeida, Tucker Blanchard, Noah Duran, Conor Heary, Nicholas Lester

California:
Carter Kim, Khalen Curry, Trigg Dudley, Troy Nuesca

Greenville:
Major Bain, Bean Bice, Koby Canty, Elijah Cruz, Sergey Popov, Henry Silva

Illinois:
Sam Phillips

Michigan:
Logan Mckeown, Robert Noll Jr, David Wolma

Navy:
Brian Solomon, Jonah Soltz, Matthew Petros, Riley Rose, Sabasian Gordon, Saran Alexander

Nebraska:
Jack Critz, James Friedman, Chris Hiser, Cole Partridge, Nik Tarca

Ohio State:
Chase Davenport-Mills

Oklahoma (OU):
Colin Flores, Brigham Frentheway, Tas Hajdu, Francisco Velez Belendez

Penn State:
Michael Jaroh, Joshua Karnes, Akseli Karsikas, Derek Schlagenhauf, Landon Simpson

Simpson:
William Bacus, Christopher Duane, Tristan Shorey, Eric Simon

Springfield:
Kaleb Palacio

Stanford:
Asher Hong, Taylor Burkhart, Colt Walker

William & Mary:
Evan Wilkins, Luke Tully, Matthew Navarro, Ricky Pizem, Samuel Lee