Wheaton, Ill. -- The organization of College Sports Communicators (CSC) has announced its 2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Academic All-America Teams, and Wheaton's Tess Boyer has been named to this year's Division III Second Team following her decorated junior season. Boyer garners the prestigious accolade once again after collecting CSC Academic All-District recognition and numerous athletic achievements in 2025-26, including a CSCAA First Team All-America award at last month's NCAA Division III Swimming Championships. Today's announcement marks Boyer's second-consecutive CSC Academic All-America nod after also earning Second Team honors last season. The third-year student-athlete is one of only three juniors in Division III women's swimming to earn First or Second Team status in 2025-26, and she is the only female swimmer from a CCIW institution to be named to this year's Academic All-America teams.

Since 1973, student-athletes from Wheaton College have earned a total of 125 Academic All-America selections through the esteemed program. Wheaton has produced at least one CSC Academic All-American for the past 26 years. Wheaton's 26-year streak is the current longest streak among CCIW schools and is the eighth-longest active streak in NCAA Division III. 

Boyer's selection to this year's national team marks the 100th Academic All-America honor for the school since the year 2000. Wheaton Athletics currently enjoys a streak of having at least one student-athlete be recognized as an Academic All-American in every school year since 1998-99. As the fourth Thunder women's swimmer in program history to be named an Academic All-American, Boyer is now the team's first two-time honoree since Kirsty Nitz ('16). 

The Academic All-America® program honors student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level in athletics and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by College Sports Communicators - a 2,000-plus member organization consisted of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of at least 3.50 on a scale of 4.00, and have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their current institution. Since the program's inception in 1952, CSC has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Division I, II, III, NAIA and junior colleges covering all NCAA championship sports.

Boyer is a Biochemistry & Molecular Biology major at Wheaton who is minoring in Computer Science and possesses an impressive 3.96 cumulative grade point average (GPA). The Kansas native recently concluded an outstanding season in the pool that saw her earn a First Team All-America award in the 400-yard IM and Second Team All-America honors in the 200-yard IM at the national championships. She was named the CCIW Women's Swimmer of the Year for the second-consecutive season and won six conference titles to help lead the Thunder women's swimming & diving team to the program's record-extending 27^th conference championship. Boyer also set conference and school records in the women's 400-meter and 200-meter individual medleys in 2025-26.

The junior won three individual gold medals and three relay titles in a headline showing at this year's CCIW Swimming & Diving Championships. Boyer captured the conference crown in the women's 200-yard individual medley, 400-yard individual medley, and 200-yard butterfly competitions and helped Wheaton to a near-sweep of the women's relay races, earning first-place finishes in the 800-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, and 200-yard medley events. Boyer was also named the CCIW Women's Swimming Student-Athlete of the Week four times in the 2025-26 regular season, picking up the most weekly recognitions of any swimmer in the conference this year.