Wayne State University Athletics

Ellyson Maleski, who was a four-year swimming letterwinner (2013-16), was a 16-time All-American, including 14 First Team All-American certificates.

She became the first WSU student-athlete to be a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American after earning Second Team accolades for the third straight year in 2016.

At the NCAA Championships, Maleski earned First Team recognition all four years in the 200 free relay including a national title in 2014 in which she anchored the relay that broke the NCAA D2 record.

She was a three-time First Team All-American in the 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay as well as the 100 back.  Maleski was a member of the national runner-up 200 medley relay in 2014.

Maleski helped the Warriors to back-to-back national runner-up finishes in 2013 and 2014, along with a fifth-place finish in 2015 and seventh place in 2016.  In addition, WSU won the GLIAC title all four years she swam.

She won seven titles at the GLIAC Championships, including two each in the 200 free relay, the 400 medley relay and the 200 medley relay plus an individual title in the 100 back in 2015.  Maleski finished in the top three in the 100 back all four years of GLIACs. 

The Biomedical Engineering Honors major was on the Academic Honor Roll all eight semesters, including seven terms on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (term GPA 3.5+) with two 4.0 semester GPAs.

The 2016 Deans' Award winner from the College of Engineering for having the highest cumulative GPA of all student-athletes in that College, Maleski also received the GLIAC Commissioner's Award in 2015 for academic and athletic excellence.