Ford and Young Earn MVC Scholar Athlete Honors

Murray State's Katelyn Young picked up first team Missouri Valley Conference Scholar Athlete and Haven Ford picked up second team honors. The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the College Sports Communicators (CSC) standards for Academic All-America nominations. Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically and must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students. An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale), and a graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established
graduate GPA.

Young has earned her bachelor's degree from Murray State in Organizational Communication and currently holds a 4.0 GPA in her master's program working towards a degree in Human Development and Leadership. Ford currently has a 4.0 GPA while majoring in Health and Physical Education.

Young, Ford, and the Racers picked up the program's first MVC regular season title over the weekend and will compete in the MVC Tournament on Friday at 12 p.m. in Evansville, Indiana.

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Players Mentioned

Haven Ford

Katelyn Young

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