Murray State University Athletics
25 Racers Receive OVC Medal of Honor
8/9/2017 11:22:00 AM | General
On Wednesday, the Ohio Valley Conference honored 25 Murray State student-athletes with the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2016-17 academic year.
The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieves the highest grade point average in a conference-sponsored sport. Every Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2016-17 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.
A total of 221 student-athletes received the honor Wednesday, the second-most in a single academic year in the history of the award. Over the past five years, there have been 1,060 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
Later this week, the league will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll and the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards next week.
2016-17 OVC Medal of Honor
Murray State Honorees
Baseball
John Lollar
Trevor McMurray
Basketball (Women)
Katie Mackenzie
Cross Country (Men)
Austin Ackman
Gavin Davies
Gavin Galanes
Football
James Sappington
Zach Shipley
Mitch Stults
Golf (Men)
Cole Manion
Golf (Women)
Moa Folke
Linette Holmslykke
Rifle
Meike Drewell
Ivan Roe
Softball
Leah Kesel
Mason Robinson
Jessica Twaddle
Amber Van Duyse
Mallory Young
Tennis
Sara Bjork
Track and Field
Chleo LeGrand
Volleyball
Dacia Brown
Scottie Ingram
Ellie Lorenz
Hannah Stultz
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The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieves the highest grade point average in a conference-sponsored sport. Every Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2016-17 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.
A total of 221 student-athletes received the honor Wednesday, the second-most in a single academic year in the history of the award. Over the past five years, there have been 1,060 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
Later this week, the league will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll and the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards next week.
2016-17 OVC Medal of Honor
Murray State Honorees
Baseball
John Lollar
Trevor McMurray
Basketball (Women)
Katie Mackenzie
Cross Country (Men)
Austin Ackman
Gavin Davies
Gavin Galanes
Football
James Sappington
Zach Shipley
Mitch Stults
Golf (Men)
Cole Manion
Golf (Women)
Moa Folke
Linette Holmslykke
Rifle
Meike Drewell
Ivan Roe
Softball
Leah Kesel
Mason Robinson
Jessica Twaddle
Amber Van Duyse
Mallory Young
Tennis
Sara Bjork
Track and Field
Chleo LeGrand
Volleyball
Dacia Brown
Scottie Ingram
Ellie Lorenz
Hannah Stultz
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