IRVING, Texas -- In an announcement made this afternoon at the conference tournament, Colorado College's Zoe Tomlinson was named the 2025 SCAC Women's Basketball Elite 19 award winner. It is the second consecutive year she has taken the league's most prestigious honor for a conference student-athlete.
Tomlinson, a senior forward/center from New York, N.Y., who earned All-SCAC First Team and Player-of-the-Year honors this season, currently holds a cumulative GPA of 3.939 as a Mathematical Economics major.
A double-double machine on the basketball court, Tomlinson's sweep of both Player-of-the-Year and Elite 19 honors in the same season represents just the 10th time in league history a student-athlete has pulled off the athletic/academic double-double. She joins former CC student-athlete James Settles as the only ones to do it in consecutive years in the same sport as Settles did it in both Men's Cross Country (2022 and 2023) and Men's Track & Field (2023 and 2024).
Other former student-athletes to earn POTY and Elite 19 honors in the same year in the same sport include: Molly McCullough of Trinity (Cross Country, 2018), Tyler Cauley of Texas Lutheran (Baseball, 2021), Luis Bencomo of St. Thomas (Men's Soccer, 2021) and Maxwell Mims of Southwestern (Baseball, 2024) - all accomplishing the rare and impressive feat.
Tomlinson is just the second women's basketball player to earn multiple Elite 19 awards in a career, joining Austin College's Ann Savage who received the honor in 2019 and 2020.
Established prior to the 2018-19 academic year and meant to recognize the best of the best within each of the league's 19 sponsored sports as it relates to both academic and athletic achievement, the SCAC Elite 19 is awarded to the student-athlete who has completed the equivalent of at least 60 credit hours at his or her current institution and has at least a cumulative 3.25 GPA. The student-athlete must also have earned All-SCAC First, Second or Third Team honors in his/her sport for that particular season.
