2025 All-ACC Academic Gymnastics Team Announced

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – NC State’s Chloe Negrete was named the Atlantic Coast Conference 2025 Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year and headlines the sport’s All-ACC Academic Team, the league announced on Friday.
 
Negrete was named the ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for Gymnastics for the second consecutive season. The graduate student out of Frisco, Texas, graduated in May of 2023 with a bachelor of science in sports management with a minor in psychology. She is set to complete her graduate degree in parks, rec, tourism and sport management with graduate certificates in sport and entertainment venue management and leadership and volunteer management in May of 2025.
 
Negrete closed out her collegiate career with 24 podium finishes and 13 individual titles in the 2025 season, recording 13 scores of a 9.900 or higher. This year, Negrete was named the ACC Gymnast of the week once and the ACC Specialist of the week four times to help claim the 2025 Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association (WCGA) Southeast Gymnast of the Year title and a spot on the WCGA All-American Second Team for beam. She was also named an American Athletic, Inc. (AAI) Award nominee for the second year in a row, which is awarded to the most outstanding gymnast in the nation for their dedication, leadership and excellence in the sport.
 
Thirteen student-athletes who earned All-ACC honors this season also secured spots on the academic team, highlighted by ACC Gymnast of the Year Mya Lauzon (California), Specialist of the Year Lali Dekanoidze (North Carolina) and Newcomer of the Year JoJo Valahovic (North Carolina).
 
All six ACC gymnastics programs were represented on the All-ACC Academic Team with Clemson, North Carolina and Stanford leading the conference with 12 student-athletes each, followed by NC State and Pitt with 11, and California with seven.
 
The ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards were established in September of 2007 to be awarded annually to the top junior or senior student-athlete in their respective sports. Candidates for the awards must have maintained a 3.0-grade point average for their careers, as well as a 3.0 for each of the last two semesters.
 
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 at least 50 percent of their team’s contests.
 
The full list of the 2025 Gymnastics All-ACC Academic Team can be found below: