BRIDGEPORT, Pa. — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology rising senior Adam Ivatorov (Rockaway, N.Y./Staten Island Technical) is the lone men’s water polo athlete to earn recognition on the 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Division III Men’s At-Large Academic All-America team.
The 39th Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) men’s water polo athlete to earn Academic All-America honors since fellow Engineer John Friedman earned the league’s inaugural honor in 1983, Ivatorov becomes the sixth MIT competitor to earn the prestigious accolade joining Friedman (1983, First Team), Mat Lau (1997, Third Team), Craig Cheney (2014, First Team), Clyde Huibregtse (2020, Second Team) and Colin Weaver (2024, Third Team).
A 2023 USA Water Polo Division III Championship All-Tournament pick who has led the Engineers to Third (2022, 2023) and Fourth (2024) Place finishes at the championship, he posted 96 goals, five assists, 81 ejections drawn and 22 steals during the 2024 season to raise his career totals to 255 goals, 19 assists, 206 ejections drawn and 72 steals He recorded 20 hat-tricks and scored a career-high seven goals four times during the 2024 season as he posted a marker in all 27 games for MIT. His 96 goals are the second most in a single season in program history.
A two-time Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC) All-America Division III Second Team selection (2023, 2024) and a two-time ACWPC All-Academic Outstanding recipient, he earned a spot on the Northeast Water Polo Conference (NWPC) All-Conference Second Team following the 2023 and 2024 seasons.
Out of the pool, Mechanical Engineering major with a focus in Management will be the MIT Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) president for the 2025-26 year and is the founder and president of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He led the reaffiliation search across 400+ national fraternities, executing a six-stage interview process to evaluate organizational fit. Ivatorov interned at Bain and Company and Collins Aerospace (Raytheon) and is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab.
The Academic All-America nod marks the second major award presented to Ivatorov during the three months as he also claimed the Philip A. Trussell Prize at MIT’s 2025 Student-Athlete Excellence Banquet presented to “a male and female undergraduate student-athlete who demonstrate skill, sportsmanship and levity.”
The Academic All-America Teams, selected by CSC, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances in their sport and in the classroom. Sports included in the men’s at-large program are fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling. MIT is the all-time leader across all divisions in producing CSC Academic All-America awards with 458 honors.
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