Trio of Tulane Scholar-Athletes Earn American Scholar-Athlete of the Year Honors

IRVING, Texas – The American Conference introduced at present its alternatives for the league’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards for every sport with three Tulane student-athletes acknowledged. Rogerio Amaral secured the glory for males’s cross nation, Amira Mabry was acknowledged for ladies’s basketball, and Andrea Zeebe repeated because the winner for ladies’s swimming and diving. The alternatives for the 22 American Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards, in addition to the Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors, are made by the league’s educational committee on the idea of educational credentials and athletic efficiency.

Rogerio Amaral is a local of Coimbra, Portugal, and dealing on a graduate diploma in anatomy. In his first season with the Green Wave after transferring from South Carolina, Amaral made a right away influence as an American All-Conference performer in cross nation. His efforts aided within the Tulane males’s staff ending because the convention runner-up earlier than delivering a historic victory within the NCAA South Central Regional, a program first, because the Wave grew to become the primary squad aside from Texas or Arkansas to safe the regional title. Amaral was 12^th in that competitors with a time of 30:04.3. He was named Men’s USTFCCCA All-Region whereas garnering All-Academic Athlete honors from the group. Prior to becoming a member of the Wave, Amaral was a two-time CSC Academic All-District honoree and a four-time SEC Academic Honor Roll recipient whereas at South Carolina.

Amira Mabry is a local of Converse, Texas, and graduated in May together with her second diploma from Tulane University in simply 4 years, a grasp’s diploma in neuroscience. The ahead was named to the CSC Academic All-District Team and was a winter nominee for the Allstate GoodWorks Team. On the court docket, Mabry grew to become the 33^rd 1,000-point scorer in program historical past and completed her profession with 1,083 factors to rank 23^rd all-time in program historical past. Mabry secured her 500^th profession rebound this previous season and ranked 17^th within the American with 185 whole boards at a median of 6.0 per sport. She earned a weekly American Honorable Mention nod on February 27 and scored in double figures 17 instances with a pair of double-doubles.

Andrea Zeebe is a local of Honolulu, Hawaii, who graduated from Tulane in May with a level in neuroscience. Zeebe repeats because the American Scholar-Athlete of the Year for ladies’s swimming and diving after claiming the popularity in 2025. She can also be a back-to-back CSC Academic All-District honoree in 2025 and 2026. Zeebe was twice chosen as American Swimmer of the Week within the 2025-26 marketing campaign and was a medalist within the 800 free relay on the American Conference Championships to help in Tulane’s general third-place end result. Zeebe was a 2025 CSCAA Scholar All-American and has secured American Conference All-Academic Team honors all 4 years of her profession. Like Mabry, Zeebe was a winter nominee for the 2026 Allstate GoodWorks Team.

With three whole honorees, Tulane is tied for the second most by a college within the convention with East Carolina, Florida Atlantic, and Charlotte. Only Rice had extra winners with 5 whole.

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