Wayne State University student-athlete Ziad Elsissy of Alexandria, Egypt, was voted to the 2018 Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division II Men's and Women's At-Large teams as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Elsissy earned Second Team CoSIDA Academic All-America accolades after being a First Team Academic All-American a year ago. The two-time national runner-up in the men's sabre competition at the NCAA Fencing Collegiate National Championships, Elsissy graduated in May with a 3.575 cumulative grade-point average in mechanical engineering. A three-time All-American on the fencing strip, he was a Second Team All-American in 2015, with back-to-back First Team All-American finishes the last two years. He skipped the 2016 NCAA Championships to compete in an Olympic qualifier event.

Elsissy's selection marks the 13th time a WSU student-athlete has been a multiple year recipient of CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. This is also the fourth time a WSU fencer has received CoSIDA Academic All-America recognition, joining Ettore Bianchi (1984) of Milano, Italy, and Zuzanna Sobczak (2017) of Gdansk, Poland, along with Elsissy in 2017.