By TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The Ohio Valley Conference announced that 238 student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2017-18 academic year.
This year, Tennessee Tech claimed 15 of the 238 awards, matching last year's total.
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 2017-18 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Tech's winners included:
BASEBALL – Colton Provey
MEN'S BASKETBALL – Shaq Calhoun
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL – Abby Buckner
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY – Hannes Vohn
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY – Anna Cooper*
FOOTBALL – Seth Huner
MEN'S GOLF – Cameron Yeary
WOMEN'S GOLF – Hannah Bratton, Allyson Dunn
WOMEN'S SOCCER – Katie Bain, Mary Francis Hoots, Molly Kafader, Kaitie Shipley
SOFTBALL – Kayla Hughes
WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD – Anna Cooper*
VOLLEYBALL – Susie Jeziorowski
*Indicates winner for multiple sports
Of the 238 award winners, 31 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).
The 238 recipients is the second-most in a single academic year in the history of the award (trailing only the 248 honorees from 2015-16). Over the past five years there have been 1,097 student-athletes that have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
The OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll later this week and the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards later this week.
Photo by Ohio Valley Conference
