Marlboro, MA --- The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced that WPI cross country and track and field standout Everett Mosher (Chester, VT) has been selected as a recipient of the 2025-26 NEWMAC Student-Athlete of the Year Award.
 
Other recipients included a pair of MIT student-athletes. Annika Naveen, a swimmer, and Kate Sanderson, a cross country and track and field student-athlete, were the conference's women's award recipients.
 
Selected by the NEWMAC Awards Committee, comprised of Athletic Communicators from across the conference, the NEWMAC Student-Athlete of the Year Award recognizes student-athletes who have distinguished themselves through exceptional achievement in athletics, academics, leadership and service.
 
Mosher, Naveen and Sanderson were selected from a field of 19 institutional nominees representing NEWMAC member institutions, including seven men's sport nominees and 12 women's sport nominees. As the conference's recipients, each will advance as the NEWMAC nominee for the Division III Commissioners Association Student-Athlete of the Year Award.
 
"Everett, Annika and Kate represent the very best of what it means to be a Division III student-athlete," said NEWMAC Executive Director Patrick B. Summers. "Each has achieved remarkable success in the classroom and in competition while demonstrating outstanding leadership and a genuine commitment to serving others. Their accomplishments have left a lasting impact on their teammates, campuses and communities, and we are proud to recognize them with one of the NEWMAC's highest individual honors."
 
A two-time NCAA Division III All-American, Mosher concluded an outstanding undergraduate career while earning a perfect 4.00 GPA in Civil Engineering. The 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Elite Scholar Athlete honoree, the senior was 2026 All-New England Division III selection and CSC Second Team Academic All-America® recipient and ranked among Division III's fastest runners in the mile and 1,500 meters while helping WPI capture the 2025 NEWMAC Men's Outdoor Track & Field Championship. 
 
Mosher's academic accomplishments extended beyond the classroom. In addition to graduating with High Distinction, he received the Andrew Holt Memorial Award as WPI's outstanding civil engineering senior and participated in an international engineering project in Cape Town, South Africa, where he helped convert an abandoned building into a community library serving the residents of Imizamo Yethu.
 
"Everett carved out his own special place in WPI Track & Field/Cross Country history this recent academic year, where he distinguished himself on the track, earning two All-American honors, a New England title and several school records," remarked WPI Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Brian Chabot. "He began the year racing on the cross country trails for the first time ever and qualified for the NCAA Championships. He continued with his long-established academic excellence, earning Academic All-American distinction, as well as taking home the NCAA Elite Scholar Athlete Award during the outdoor track & field championships. Because of all this and more, I can think of no better candidate to be named the NEWMAC Student Athlete of the Year." 
                                                                                                
A team captain, Mosher consistently demonstrated a commitment to leadership and service throughout his collegiate career. He organized youth track camps, community service initiatives and mentoring opportunities while serving as treasurer of Chi Epsilon, vice president of the Spikeball Club and a mentor through Tau Beta Pi. 
 
The recent graduate will return to Boynton Hill this fall and compete for the Engineers as a graduate student in cross country.
 
Mosher is WPI's second recipient of the award, which is now in its fifth year. Track and field All-American Oliver Thomas (Goffstown, NH) was an inaugural NEWMAC Student-Athlete of the Year Award recipient during the 2021-22 academic year.
 
NEWMAC Release