WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — After excelling in the gym and the classroom, William & Mary standout gymnast Jacopo Gliozzi was selected to the 2019 Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 At-Large First Team.
 
The honor marks the third consecutive season he has garnered the distinction, as he also earned Academic All-America At-Large accolades each of the last two seasons.
 
One of the nation's top gymnasts, Gliozzi was selected as a finalist for the 2019 College Gymnastics Association Nissen-Emery Award. The honor is considered the Heisman Trophy of Gymnastics.
 
Additionally, he was selected as the 2019 USA Gymnastics Collegiate Senior Athlete of the Year and the 2019 ECAC Co-Senior Gymnast of the Year.
 
Gliozzi emerged on the national stage as a sophomore when he earned NCAA All-America honors on pommel horse after a sixth-place finish.
 
This fall, he competed on the international stage at the 2018 Turnier Der Meister World Cup in Cottbus, Germany as a member of the Italian team and placed 10th on pommel horse in the qualifying round. The impressive performance at the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) World Cup event earned him points toward qualification for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
 
W&M's record holder on pommel horse, the Fairfax, Va., native is also a three-time USA Gymnastics Collegiate All-American in the event and won a pair of ECAC titles.
 
Elected as one of the Tribe's team captains this season, Gliozzi also distinguished himself in the classroom and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also garnered W&M's prestigious Thomas Jefferson Prize in Natural Philosophy, which recognizes excellence in the sciences and mathematics by an undergraduate, as he majored in physics and earned a 4.0 GPA.
 
Honored as a College Gymnastics Association Academic First-Team All-American Scholar-Athlete three times, he is also a W&M Monroe Scholar and a four-time Provost Award winner. Additionally, he earned the Don Edward Harrison Jr. Award for Excellence in Physics (awarded to W&M's most outstanding Physics student), the Cissy Patterson Award for Mathematics (awarded for the highest achievement in mathematics classes) and the Ewell Award (awarded for outstanding contribution and leadership on campus and in the community).
 
With his selection to the all-district first team, Gliozzi advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot for the third consecutive season.
 
The academic all-district at-large teams are comprised of elite student-athletes who compete in bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo.
 
Gliozzi is one of just six men's gymnasts in the nation to garner academic all-district distinction.