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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Monday it was announced that 240 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned 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 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.
Of the 240 award winners, 31 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).
Eastern Illinois and Jacksonville State had the most selections with 30, followed by Eastern Kentucky (28). The sport of women's track and field had the most honorees league-wide (40).
The 240 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 1,099 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
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.