The Academic All-America program is selected by the College Sports Communicators (formerly known as College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA), and recognizes combined athletic performance and academic achievement excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.
[2][a] Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
Alec Kessler (1990), Todd Fuller (1996) and Emeka Okafor (2004) also won the University Division overall Academic All-America.
However, Colton Hunt (2013), John Coleman (2015) and Cooper Cook (2018) have won the Division III award.
[9] Notably, Ben Vander Plas, the Division I recipient in 2022 and 2023, is the only repeat winner to have been honored at different schools—Ohio in 2022 and Virginia in 2023.