Murray State University Athletics
18 Racers Receive OVC Medal of Honor
8/6/2018 1:05:00 PM | General
On Monday, the Ohio Valley Conference recognized 18 Murray State student-athletes with the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2017-18 academic year.
The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a conference-sponsored sport. Every medal of honor recipient for the 2017-18 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.
A total of 238 student-athletes received the honor Monday, which is the second-most in a single academic year in the history of the award. Over the past five years, there have been 1,097 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
Of the 238 award winners, 31 were awarded medals of honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list), including Murray State Women's Cross Country and Track and Field student-athlete Mallory Unverfehrt.
Later this week, the OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards.
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2017-18 OVC Medal of Honor
Murray State Honorees
Baseball
Gavin Wehby
Basketball (Women's)
Paige Barrett
Cross Country (Men's)
Tyler Bradley
Cross Country (Women's)
Mallory Unverfehrt
Haley Webb
Football
James Sappington
Zach Shipley
Golf (Men's)
Quinn Eaton
Golf (Women's)
Moa Folke
Anna Moore
Rifle
Meike Drewell
Ben Estes
Ivan Roe
Track and Field (Women's)
Mallory Unverfehrt
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Volleyball
Alex Kaufmann
Megan Lindsay
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The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a conference-sponsored sport. Every medal of honor recipient for the 2017-18 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.
A total of 238 student-athletes received the honor Monday, which is the second-most in a single academic year in the history of the award. Over the past five years, there have been 1,097 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
Of the 238 award winners, 31 were awarded medals of honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list), including Murray State Women's Cross Country and Track and Field student-athlete Mallory Unverfehrt.
Later this week, the OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards.
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2017-18 OVC Medal of Honor
Murray State Honorees
Baseball
Gavin Wehby
Basketball (Women's)
Paige Barrett
Cross Country (Men's)
Tyler Bradley
Cross Country (Women's)
Mallory Unverfehrt
Haley Webb
Football
James Sappington
Zach Shipley
Golf (Men's)
Quinn Eaton
Golf (Women's)
Moa Folke
Anna Moore
Rifle
Meike Drewell
Ben Estes
Ivan Roe
Track and Field (Women's)
Mallory Unverfehrt
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Volleyball
Alex Kaufmann
Megan Lindsay
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