University of North Carolina Athletics
Wood Named ACC Scholar-Athlete Of the Year For Second Straight Season
April 23, 2026 | Fencing, Academics
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Senior Elden Wood was named the Atlantic Coast Conference's Fencing Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for a second straight year on Thursday, April 23.
Wood is studying psychology. The senior from New York has been named to the All-ACC Academic Team four times in his career and has also been named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll, UNC Dean's List, and Tar Heel Scholar-Athlete.
He wrapped up his incredible career with his third appearance at the national championships and his second straight All-America honor in men's sabre.
Fencing also had 27 student-athletes earn All-ACC Academic honors.
Academic requirements for selection to the All-ACC Academic Team are a 3.0-grade point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one's academic career. In addition, student-athletes must compete in either the ACC or NCAA Championship this season in fencing.
Gabriella Alfarache, So. Data Science
Mariasole Capellua, So. Political Science
Sreehitha Gandluri, Jr. Global Studies
Katie McGillion-Moore, Sr. Business Administration
Nicole Milewski, Sr. Exercise and Sport Science
Anjali Pal, Jr. Psychology
Zhiyan Qian, Sr. Statistics and Analytics
Charlotte Scalamoni-Goldstein, Sr. Political Science
Mia Smotritsky, So. Political Science
Anna Temiryaev, Jr. Biology
Ella Webb, Sr. Environmental Health Science
Lauren Yu, So. Undecided
Tatiana Zafft, So. Psychology
Nick Baumstein, Sr. Media and Journalism
Peter Bruk, So. Undergrad
Finn Buchmann So. Undergrad
Ari Etin, Sr. Psychology
Logan Gatza, Sr. Computer Science
Brayden Gyure, Jr. Environmental Sciences
Shekar Jayendra, Sr. Philosophy
John Lin, Jr. Business Administration
Cristian Porras, So. Undergrad
Jacob Rosenberg, Jr. Business Administration
Connor Williams, Sr. Asian Studies
Nicky Wind, Sr. Business Administration
Elden Wood, Sr. Psychology
Maximo Zafft, Jr. Media and Journalism
