Tech student-athletes earn OVC Academic Medal of Honor

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The Ohio Valley Conference announced that a record 285 student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2019-20 academic year. This year, Tennessee Tech student-athletes claimed 16 of the 285 awards.

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 2019-20 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Tech's winners included:

BASEBALL

 – Paul Steffensen

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

 – Abby Buckner

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

 – Hannes Vohn

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

 – Courtney McCowan*

FOOTBALL

 – Seth Huner, Jamaal Thompson

MEN'S GOLF

 – Bryce Beeler

WOMEN'S GOLF

 – Gittle Sciolis

WOMEN'S SOCCER

 – Taylor Hornback, Kendall Powell, Kaitie Shipley, Chloe Smith

SOFTBALL

 – Amanda Phy

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD

 – Anya Akili, Courtney McCowan*, Lisa Wickham

VOLLEYBALL

 – Ali Verzani

*Indicates winner for multiple sports

Of the 286 award winners, 49 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (and counted just once in the final recipients list).

The 286 recipients are the most in a single academic year in the history of the award, smashing the previous record of 275 honorees in 2018-19. Over the past five years, there have been 1,271 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.

Due to the extraordinary circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic, spring sport athletes who were eligible and met the GPA requirements, but saw their seasons canceled (therefore not using a season of competition) received the award. Additionally, student-athletes who had pass/fail courses listed on their transcript were also made eligible so long as the institutional GPAs are calculated according to institutional policy.

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.

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