College Sports Communicators (CSC), formerly known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), began the Academic All-America
® program in the 1950's, and since then, has honored thousands of deserving student-athletes from numerous sports and across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America
honors.
Student-athletes are nominated by current CSC members. Qualified members of the Academic All-District first team move onto the national Academic All-America ballot, where first-team, second-team and third-team Academic All-Americans are selected from regions throughout the country.
In 2023, Karson Saunders '23 of the softball team became the first Union student-athlete ever to earn
Academic All-America Team Member of the Year honors, recognizing her as the top student-athlete in all of Division III softball for the 2023 season.
Erika Eisenhut '06 is Union College's only three-time Academic All-American and is one of the few players in NCAA history to earn Academic All-America honors in three different sports (women's soccer, women's basketball and softball) in the same academic year. Five Union athletes join Eisenhut as multiple Academic All-America honorees: Tom Anacker '72 (football), Tyler Heck '13 (baseball), Troy Grosenick '13 (men's hockey), Ryan Ehrets '21 (football) and Saunders.
Fourteen different Union programs have had student-athletes named Academic All-America since the school's first honoree in 1970. The football team leads all programs with 13 selections, followed by the men's hockey team with six and the softball and men's lacrosse teams with four each.
Here is the all-time list of Academic All-America award recipients from Union College:
| Year |
Name |
Category |
Team |
Position/Sport |
| 1969-70 |
Jim Tedisco |
Men's Basketball |
|
G |
| 1970-71 |
Tom Anacker |
Football |
1st Team |
LB |
| 1971-72 |
Tom Anacker |
Football |
1st Team |
LB |
|
Mike Martin |
Football |
2nd Team |
DT |
| 1972-73 |
Geoff Walker |
Men's Basketball |
3rd Team |
F |
| 1973-74 |
Dave Ricks |
Football |
1st Team |
DB |
| 1984-85 |
Bob Bertagna |
Football |
2nd Team |
DB |
| 1987-88 |
Rich Romer |
Football |
1st Team |
DL |
| 1993-94 |
Greg Oswitt |
Football |
1st Team |
OL |
| 1996-97 |
Roger Egbert |
Football |
1st Team |
K |
| 2005-06 |
Erika Eisenhut |
Women's Soccer |
1st Team |
M |
|
Derek Wayman |
Football |
2nd Team |
DL |
|
Erika Eisenhut |
Women's Basketball |
3rd Team |
G |
|
Julie Gawronski |
Softball |
2nd Team |
OF |
|
Erika Eisenhut |
Softball |
3rd Team |
OF |
| 2009-10 |
John Peters |
Football |
1st Team |
LB |
|
Allison Cuozzo |
Women's Soccer |
2nd Team |
M |
|
Stephane Boileau |
Men's At-Large |
2nd Team |
Men's Hockey |
| 2011-12 |
Tyler Heck |
Baseball |
2nd Team |
OF |
|
Troy Grosenick |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Hockey |
| 2012-13 |
Noah Joseph |
Football |
1st Team |
LB |
|
Tyler Heck |
Baseball |
1st Team |
OF |
|
Kyle Christine |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Lacrosse |
|
Troy Grosenick |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Hockey |
| 2013-14 |
Cole Ikkala |
Men's At-Large |
2nd Team |
Men's Hockey |
|
Mat Bodie |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Hockey |
| 2016-17 |
Kent Curran |
Baseball |
1st Team |
OF |
|
Mike Vecchione |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Hockey |
| 2018-19 |
Ryan Ehrets |
Football |
2nd Team |
OL |
|
Samantha Miller |
Women's XC/Track |
3rd Team |
|
| 2020-21 |
Ryan Ehrets |
Football |
1st Team |
OL |
|
David Bates |
Men's XC/Track |
3rd Team |
|
| 2021-22 |
Karson Saunders |
Softball |
3rd Team |
OF |
|
Ryan Puglisi |
Men's At-Large |
2nd Team |
Men's Lacrosse |
| 2022-23 |
Karson Saunders |
Softball |
1st Team |
OF |
|
Jake Titus |
Men's At-Large |
3rd Team |
Men's Lacrosse |
| 2023-24 |
Matthew Paolatto |
Men's At-Large |
2nd Team |
Men's Lacrosse |
