WASHINGTON - The Gallaudet University Athletics Department is proud to announce its 2025 Athletics Hall of Fame Class. Over the course of a week plus the department will introduce one member of the eight-person class each day.
The eight-person class will be released in alphabetical order. Each release will include a brief summary of the inductees' career at GU along with a video of Athletic Director
Warren Keller contacting each inductee to share the news of being selected to the Athletics Hall of Fame.
At the conclusion of the rollout, a general overall release about the entire Athletics Hall of Fame class will be shared along with information for the event.
Our eighth and final inductee of the 2025 Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame Class is
Anna Polivanchuk, '17.
Polivanchuk was an accomplished women's swimmer for the Bison program from 2013 until 2016. The Orebro, Sweden, native, was the only Bison to qualify for the 2014 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle and 100-backstroke. She finished in the Top 25 for two events and 31st in the other. At the 2014 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championships, she won six events including the 100- and 200-backstroke, 200- and 400-freestyle relay and 200- and 400-medley relay as the Bison finished third overall. Polivanchuk also picked up an All-NEAC second team honor in the 50 free. Polivanchuk still holds six individual (50-freestyle, 100-free, 50-backstroke, 100-back, 200-back, 100-yard IM) and four relay (200- and 400-freestyle, 200- and 400-medley) school records. All of Anna's program records were set in 2014. Anna along with her sister,
Alexandra Polivanchuk, '15, an Athletics Hall of Fame inductee in 2023, combine to hold 10 individual school records and four relay school records.
The 2025 Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame event will take place during Homecoming Weekend on campus. The induction ceremony is set for Sunday, Oct. 26, at 11 a.m., in the Peikoff Alumni House ("Ole Jim").
The Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame Induction is one of the premier events of the year for the GU Athletics Department. The special event recognizes the individuals, past and present, whose contributions to Gallaudet University Athletics have been deemed worthy of induction into the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame.
To be considered for the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame one must be a former Bison student-athlete, coach and/or contributor that is five years removed from the University. One must be nominated in writing and submitted to the Gallaudet University Athletics Department during an open nomination period. Inductees can be deaf, hard of hearing or hearing. All nominations are then screened and reviewed by the Gallaudet Athletics Hall of Fame committee.
2025 Athletics HOF Class – Receiving The Call: Anna Polivanchuk (2013-16)
Link:Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDIO9q7vbY
Also see:
