2019 OVC Academic Medal of Honor
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Monday it was announced that a record 268 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2018-19 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 2018-19 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Of the 268 award winners, 27 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 37, followed by Eastern Kentucky (31) and Austin Peay (31) and Eastern Illinois (29). The sport of women's track and field had the most honorees league-wide (52), followed by women's soccer (38) and softball (38).
The 268 recipients are the most in a single academic year in the history of the award, smashing the previous record of 248 honorees in 2015-16. Over the past five years there have been 1,178 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.
