Case Western’s Abigail Wilkov Wins Elite 90 Award For Highest GPA At Women’s D3 Championships

2025 NCAA DIII Swimming and Diving Championships

Abigail Wilkov, a senior from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, has been awarded the Elite 90 Award for the Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

The Elite 90 award is given each year to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average who competes at the respective NCAA Championships in the sport. To be eligible, students must have been a member of their team for at least two years and be an active participant at the championship competition. Ties are broken by number of credits.

Wilkov majors in neuroscience and holds a 4.0 GPA. She is the first-ever member of the Case Western Reserve women’s team to receive this award and the second-ever member in aquatics history, joining men’s swimmer Drew Hamilton, who won the award in 2018.

Case Western has now won this award on 12 different occasions, and seven of those awards have been given in just the past three years.

Wilkov is the most decorated diver to ever compete at Case Western. Over the course of her career, she has earned seven All-America honors, including two at this year’s NCAA Championships. She opened these NCAAs with a 2nd place finish in the 1-meter diving event, which was the highest finish by a Spartan, swimmer or diver, in 18 years. She went on to place 2nd in the 3-meter diving event as well. Prior to this year, Wilkov’s highest-ever finish was 6th, which she earned in the 3-meter event at the 2024 championships.

Additionally, this year, Wilkov became the first diver from Case Western to ever win an NCAA Regional meet, securing the 1-meter victory this February. She also holds the school records for both the 1-meter (509.25) and 3-meter (552.70) boards.

ALL-TIME WINNERS, ELITE 90 AWARD, NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING:

Year Winner School Conference
2024 Eleanor McGrath Colby College New England Small College Athletic Conference
2023 Alexandra Turvey Pomona-Pitzer Colleges Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf.
2022 Clio Hancock Emory University University Athletic Association
2019 Mikayla Bisignani Johns Hopkins University Centennial Conference
2018 Kaitlin Wingert Messiah University Middle Atlantic Conferences
2017 Kaitlin Wingert Messiah University Middle Atlantic Conferences
2016 Rachel Treadway University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
2015 Margaret Guo Massachusetts Institute of Technology New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference
2014 Haley Townsend Kenyon College North Coast Athletic Conference
2013 Alex Ladd Johns Hopkins University Centennial Conference
2012 Chelsea Wiese Hope College Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
2011 Tessa Dover Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf.
2010 Tessa Dover Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps Colleges Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conf.

*2020 and 2021 did not have Elite 90 recipients, as those NCAA meets were canceled due to COVID-19.

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SwimGuy
1 day ago

Let’s go Spartans!