BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Friday it was announced that 354 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2024-25 academic year.

It marks the second-highest total in league history (trailing only the 356 winners in 2020-21). The total was 42 honorees higher than a year ago.

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 2024-25 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Of the 354 award winners, 59 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).

Lindenwood and Eastern Illinois tied for the most selections with 48, followed closely by Southeast Missouri (47). The sport of women's soccer had the most honorees league-wide (65), followed by women's track and field (64) and softball (40).

Over the past five years there have been over 1,590 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.

Lindenwood 2024-25 Academic Medal of Honor Recipients

* - Indicates student-athlete was a winner in multiple sports

Baseball
Sam Grunberg
Jack Meyer
Josh Newell
Bennett Stice
Carson Subbert

Women's Basketball
Aalayah Wilson

Beach Volleyball
Katie Bockhorst
Myah Hough
Abby Jacobs
Sienna King
Abby VanBuskirk

Women's Cross Country
Abby Anderson *
Kadence Berry *
Samantha Brown *
Maria Parisi *

Football
Mason Brown
Chris Camy
Abe Haerr
Gareth Warren

Men's Golf
Renato Filho
Mackenzie Holmes

Women's Golf
Isabella Buckley
Meredith Colby
Laura Sanchez

Men's Soccer
Connor Lovell
Jozef Palushaj

Women's Soccer
Peyton Hatfield
Anna Johnson
Faith Montandon
Mattie Ohlsen
Georgia Pardalos
Kylie Peel
Kori Robinson
Sami Roggenkamp
Meg Rossow
Lauren Sanders
Megan Sodemann
Rhyan Ward

Softball
Madison Adams
Emily Geary
Molly Heidrick
Hanna Johanning
Lauren Pelton
Avery Wapp

Women's Tennis
Fabiana Labrador
Dani Rosenberger
Michelle Trochez

Women's Track & Field
Abby Anderson *
Kadence Berry *
Sam Brown *
Maria Parisi *
Mireya Simpson

Women's Volleyball
Abby VanBuskirk*