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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Tuesday it was announced that a record 356 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2020-21 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 2020-21 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Of the 356 award winners, 49 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).
Eastern Illinois had the most selections with 51, followed by Southeast Missouri with 39. The sport of women's track and field had the most honorees league-wide (54), followed by women's soccer (48) and softball (45).
The 356 recipients are the most in a single academic year in the history of the award, smashing the previous record of 293 honorees a year ago. It marks the third-straight year the league has set a record with number of award winners. Over the past five years there have been 1,386 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.