24 Racers Receive OVC Medal of Honor

8/12/2019 1:22:00 PM | Baseball, Football, General, Men's Cross Country, Men's Golf, Softball, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Track and Field, Women's Volleyball, Rifle

On Monday, the Ohio Valley Conference recognized 24 Murray State student-athletes with the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2018-19 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 2018-19 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.

The 268 recipients are the most in a single academic year in the history of the award, smashing the previous record of 248 honorees in 2015-16. Over the past five years there have been 1,178 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.

Of the 268 award winners, 27 were awarded Academic 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-athletes Ida Mutai and 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.

2018-19 OVC Medal of Honor
Murray State Honorees
Baseball
Jordan Holly

Cross Country (Men's)
Tyler Bradley

Cross Country (Women's)
Ida Mutai
Mallory Unverfehrt

Football
James Sappington

Golf (Men's)
Quinn Eaton

Golf (Women's)
Linette Holmslykke

Rifle
Meike Drewell

Soccer
Cori Cain
Izzy Heckman
Abby Jones
Ellie Lewis
Joselle Morche

Softball
Amber Van Duyse
Danielle Walls

Tennis
Anja Loncarevic
Hannah Rikard

Track and Field (Women's)
Gabby Kennedy
Jessie Kinder
Christina Meinhardt
Ida Mutai
Mallory Unverfehrt

Volleyball
Liza Gober
Alex Kaufmann
Megan Lindsay
Emily Matson