COLCHESTER, Vt. - Saint Michael's College women's swimming & diving junior Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) was introduced as Northeast-10 Conference Elite 24 Award winner on Sunday during the NE10 Championship at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. The Elite 24 Award honors student-athletes with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at a finals site.
 
Silveira holds a 3.99 GPA as a double major in international relations and anthropology & sociology who minors in education. She finished sixth in one-meter diving at this past weekend's NE10 Championship and claimed a pair of event victories during the regular season. As a sophomore, Silveira was named NE10 Academic All-Conference and College Sports Communicators Academic All-District, just two of her now 10 career national and league academic accolades.
 
Silveira brings the number of Saint Michael's Elite 24 Award winners to six since the laurel was established for the 2018-19 school year, and four since last school year alone. Men's swimmer Trevor Johnson '24 was lauded at last year's NE10 Championship after cross country's Katie Culliton '24 and Swapnil Jhajharia '24 swept the accolades at their 2023 NE10 Championship. Women's lacrosse's Ashley Turner '21 (2020) and men's ice hockey's David Ciancio '25 (2022-23) have also won the award.