Wood Named ACC Scholar-Athlete Of the Year For Second Straight Season

Elden Wood
sabre
University of North Carolina Fencing
ACC Championships
Cameron Indoor Stadium
Durham, NC
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

Wood Named ACC Scholar-Athlete Of the Year For Second Straight Season

April 23, 2026 | Fencing, Academics

By: Walker Brooks

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