22 Racers Earn OVC Medal Of Honor Award

The Ohio Valley Conference announced 22 Murray State student-athletes who earned the OVC's Academic Medal of Honor for the 2019-20 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 Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2019-20 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

The Racers' 25 honors came from 22 individuals from 11 sports.

The OVC announced a record 286 student-athletes who were honored. Over the past five years there have been 1,271 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor conference-wide.

The OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Academic Achievement Award and the Team
Academic Achievement Awards later this week.

First given after the 1993-94 school year, the Racers now have 279 total OVC Medal of Honor Winners in the 27 years the award has been given.

Murray State – OVC Medal of Honor
(2019-20 school year)

Baseball
Ryan Fender
Jordan Holly
Trey Hutchison
Trevor McMurray

Basketball (Men)
Rod Thomas

Cross Country (Men)
Emma Graf*
Jessica Stein*
Mallory Unverfehrt*

Football
Eric Samuta

Golf (Women)
Payton Carter
Sarah McDowell

Rifle
Meike Drewell

Soccer
Abby Jones
Cera Prather

Softball
Kristen Bialek
Sierra Gilmore

Tennis (Women)
Marit Kreugel
Anja Loncarevic

Track & Field (Women)
Joza Mikulcik

Volleyball
Alexandra Kaufmann
Megan Lindsay
Emily Matson

*Named to cross country and track & field

Murray State University Athletics

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