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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Friday it was announced that 312 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2023-24 academic year.
It marks the second-highest total in league history (trailing only the 356 winners in 2020-21).
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 2023-24 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Of the 312 award winners, 52 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).
Southeast Missouri had the most selections with 45, followed by Eastern Illinois (41), Lindenwood (39) and Tennessee Tech (35). The sport of women's soccer had the most honorees league-wide (61), followed by women's track and field (43) and softball (30).
Over the past five years there have been over 1,500 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 next week.