The Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA) announced the 2019-20 recipients of the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Awards on Thursday afternoon. Lindenwood Athletics had 188 recipients of the prestigious award, leading the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) and finishing third in all of NCAA Division II.

In order to receive an Academic Achievement Award, the student-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale, must have attended a minimum of two years (four semesters) of college level work, and must have been an active member of an intercollegiate team during his/her last academic year.
 
In total, there were 15,226 student-athletes from 200 institutions recognized for the 2019-20 Academic Achievement Awards. These numbers shattered the records for highest number of participating institutions and the largest number of student-athletes being nominated since the award program's inception 13 years ago. For the second-straight year, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) has the largest number of student-athlete honorees with 1,365 total, closely followed by GLVC with 1,333 and the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) with 1,220.

Independently, the PSAC's Gannon University led the way with 219 honorees, followed closely by Stonehill College of the Northeast-10 Conference (NE10) with 208 award winners. Lindenwood finished third with 188 recipients and another PSAC representative Seton Hill University came in fourth overall with 180. Rounding out the top-five was the GLVC's University of Indianapolis with 175 nominees.

For a complete list of Lindenwood award winners, please click here.