SIUE Announces OVC Medal Winners

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Published on August 4 2021 6:17 am
Last Updated on August 4 2021 6:17 am

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Tuesday it was announced that a record 354 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 354 award winners, 48 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 50, 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 354 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 1,384 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.

Below are the SIUE honorees:

Jackson Best, men's basketball

Elochukwu Eze, men's basketball

Allie Troeckler, women's basketball

Zaria Whitlock, women's basketball

Zach Walters*, men's cross country

Kassidy Dexheimer*, women's cross country

Caroline Gwaltney*, women's cross country

Zak Butt, golf

Luke Ludwig, golf

Matea Diekema, women's soccer

Myah Diekema, women's soccer

Emma Dutko, women's soccer

Andrea Frerker, women's soccer

Sarah Hibbeler, women's soccer

Kayla Klipsch, women's soccer

Courtney Vollmer, women's soccer

Ava Bieneman, softball

Zoe Schafer, softball

Amber Storer, softball

Bianca Vozenilek, softball

Jill Lambrechts, tennis

Vanessa Reinicke, tennis

Jordan Schifano, tennis

Melissa Vizcardo, tennis

Brandon Bretz, men's track and field

Keri Burmester, women's track and field

Annie Ellis, volleyball

Grace Hurst, volleyball

Jordyn Klein, volleyball

Rachel McDonald, volleyball

Jessica Vineyard, volleyball

Gabby Wimes, volleyball