Elden Wood Named ACC Men’s Fencing Scholar-Athlete Of The Year
May 1, 2025 | Fencing, Academics
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Junior Elden Wood was named the Men's Atlantic Coast Conference's Fencing Scholar-Athlete of the Year on Thursday, May 1. Fencing had 21 student-athletes earn All-ACC Academic honors.
Wood is studying psychology and has a 3.86 GPA throughout his first three years at Carolina. The junior from New York has been named All-ACC Academic Team three times in his career and also has been named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll, UNC Dean's List and Tar Heel Scholar-Athlete.
The junior is coming off a fantastic campaign that earned him his second trip to the national championship as well as All-America honors. Wood finished 11th in the country to help Carolina finish thirteenth overall. He also finished fifth at the regional championships.
Wood's successful season earned ACC Fencer of the Week honors for the week of January 20-25. Wood's performance helped Carolina earn three sweeps against Wagner, Haverford, and No. 5 Penn State, as he posted a 15-2 record at the Penn State Invitational. Wood notched five wins against No. 3 Columbia and No. 4 Princeton combined. The junior saberist beat Neil Lilov, the national runner-up, and also Jackson McBride, who finished 12th at the 2024 national championships.
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 Championship or NCAA Championship this season in the sport of fencing.
Women's All-ACC Academic Teams
Gabriella Alfarache, Chemistry
Mariasole Capellua, Management & Society
Molly Kettelle, Exercise and Sport Science
Sophia Kovacs, Psychology
Kaitlyn McGillion-Moore, Business
Nicole Milewski, Exercise and Sport Science
Zhiyan Qian, Statistics and Analytics
Mia Smotritsky, Political Science
Ella Webb, Environmental Health Sciences
Lauren Yu, Undecided
Tatiana Zafft, Psychology
Men's All-ACC Academic Teams
Nick Baumstein, Media and Journalism
Peter Bruk, Undecided
Finn Buchmann, Undecided
Brayden Gyure, Environmental Sciences
Kevin Maia Lima, Biomedical and Health Science Engineering
Boris Muga, Undecided
Cristian Porras, Undecided
Nicky Wind, Business
Elden Wood, Psychology
Maximo Zafft, Communications
Players Mentioned
