George Washington University Athletics
Michael Wood Named to Allstate NACDA Good Works Team
2/17/2026 10:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
NORTHBROOK, Ill. – GW men's diver Michael Wood has been named to the 2025-26 Winter Allstate NACDA Good Works Team. The list recognizes male and female student-athletes across all divisions and sports who go above and beyond in their commitment to community service, academic achievement and athletic performance.
Wood has been involved in the community through the organization Grassroots Health, located in Washington, D.C., where over the past four semesters he has put in over 100 hours of service. Grassroots' main goal is to promote health equity in the District of Columbia by having Division I student-athletes from the four major universities in DC go into public middle schools and teach students about nutritional, sexual, and mental health through sport.
Through Grassroots, Wood has been trained as a coach to teach nutritional health to sixth graders and sexual health to seventh graders. He has participated in over ten different programs across D.C., serving hundreds of students. Once or twice a week since the spring of his freshman year, he has committed at least an hour not only teaching but also playing games that educate students on these health topics.
Wood has also excelled in the classroom, as the Environmental & Sustainability Sciences major has been featured on GW's Academic Dean's list four times. His success on the boards is also apparent, as the junior diver has made back-to-back NCAA Diving Zone A appearances, riding a steady upward trajectory since coming to GW. Wood earned his first A-10 All-Conference award last season after scoring 26 points at last season's A-10 Championship, earning the silver medal in the 3-meter dive A-final.
The Allstate NACDA Good Works Team recognizes 60 student-athletes annually across fall, winter and spring seasons. The initiative surpassed 500 nominees over the course of its inaugural year. Wood was one of two GW student-athletes to be nominated for the winter season, as gymnastics' Delaney DeHaan also received a nomination.
The Allstate NACDA Good Works Team was established in 2024 to recognize male and female student-athletes across all collegiate sports and divisions for their leadership in community service, academics and athletics.
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