BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins women's swimming senior Mikayla Bisignani has been named to the 2020-21 CoSIDA Academic All-District Team it was announced today. This is her third selection to the all-district team and she is just the ninth female student-athlete at Johns Hopkins to do so.
 
The JHU women's swim team has now produced 18 CoSIDA Academic All-District selections, with 12 of those coming since 2013. To be nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA, be a sophomore or above and a starter or significant reserve. Bisignani will advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America ballot with the Academic All-America Teams set to be announced August 4. The At-Large Program includes athletes from the following sports: beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo.
 
A two-time First Team CoSIDA Academic All-American, Bisignani graduated in May with degrees in psychology and molecular and cellular biology and boasted a 3.99 cumulative GPA. She will begin medical school at the University of Pittsburgh this fall. She was a three-time NCAA qualifier in swimming and was named the 2019 NCAA Elite 90 Award winner. Bisignani was also a member of the Johns Hopkins Outdoor Track & Field Team and was named the 2020 Centennial Conference (CC) Scholar-Athlete of the Year. 
 
Bisignani earned All-America honors twice and was on the 200 Free Relay team that finished four at the 2019 NCAA Championships. She qualified for the 2020 NCAA Championships that were cancelled and the 2021 championships were not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a member of the track team, was a two-time CC Champion in the discus and placed 13^th at the event at the 2019 NCAA Championships.
 
Bisignani was a member of the JHU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, the Women's Pre-Health Leadership Society and was vice-president of the Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society. She was the co-founder and lead mentor for the Pre-Health Student Advisory Board. In addition, Bisignani was a project lead for Enactus, a global organization that addresses social issues through entrepreneurial action. She also served as a mentor to two freshmen student-athletes through Blue Jays LEAD. In May she was presented with the Robert H. Scott Award for excellence in athletics, scholarship and extracurricular participation as well as the Howard-Shriver Award, for excellence in athletics and scholarship at Johns Hopkins.
 
Bisignani was a research assistant in the JHU Laboratory for Child Development as well as the Neuroendocrinology Lab at Saint Vincent College. In addition, she spent the summer of 2017 as an intern at Latrobe Hospital. She worked in the front office of the JHU Athletic Department as well as on the game day operations crew. Bisignani was a tutor with the JHU Center for Student Success as well as at Waverly Elementary School. In addition, she was a volunteer care-giver for a patient with multiple sclerosis and volunteers at Mercy Medical Center in the ER and Get-Well Network.