BALTIMORE, MD – Johns Hopkins women's swimming senior Mikayla Bisignani has been named the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year it was announced today. In addition, she was named a First Team Academic All-American for the third time in her career. 
 
The JHU women's swim team has now produced 10 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans selections, with nine of those coming since 2011. Bisignani is the seventh Johns Hopkins student-athlete to earn CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year honors, and the third women's swimmer. She is also the third athlete in school history to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America honors three times and the first to garner first team honors three times.
 
Bisignani graduated in May with degrees in psychology and molecular and cellular biology and boasted a 3.99 cumulative GPA. She is currently doing an independent research project in the Duvvuri Lab at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and will begin medical school at Pitt later this month. 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.