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Like so many Ivy League competitors, Ellen Mayer Sabik (Cornell 84) achieved excellence as both a student and an athlete and went on to significant career accomplishments. But Sabik received a unique honor in 1997 upon her induction into the GTE/CoSIDA Academic-All American Hall of Fame, just the third Ivy athlete in history and first woman to be so recognized.
The Hall was established in 1988 by GTE and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) to honor former Academic All-American Team members who have achieved extraordinary success in their professions and made substantial contributions to their communities. There are four honorees each year; to be eligible for induction, an athlete must have been an Academic All-American, have graduated with at least a 3.0 GPA, and have graduated at least ten years prior.
A four-year letter-winning gymnast while at Cornell, Sabik won the New York State Championship in the vault in 1984 and finished second on the balance beam at the Ivy League championships. She was team captain for two years; in her senior year, the team had an overall 9-3 record and was second at the Ivy championships. Her coach, Betsy East, characterized Sabik as an excellent student who studies incredibly hard and puts that same kind of effort into gymnastics.
Academically, Sabik was also a standout a biology major, member of the National Science Honor Society, and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a 4.0 GPA. After graduation from Cornell, Sabik went to Harvard Medical School, and then to Massachusetts General Hospital for her residency, where she was awarded a cardiology fellowship. Currently, she is a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio.
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