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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Monday it was announced that 285 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2021-22 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 2021-22 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Of the 285 award winners, 39 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 47, followed by Southeast Missouri (38) and SIUE (34). The sport of softball had the most honorees league-wide (49), followed by women's track and field (46) and soccer (43).
Over the past five years there have been over 1,200 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.