INDIANAPOLIS - The Great Lakes Valley Conference has identified 15 University of Missouri-St. Louis student-athletes who have earned the GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award.
 
The recipients of the GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award exemplify the outstanding student-athletes in the GLVC.  Each honoree has exhausted his or her eligibility in the intercollegiate sport in which they participated and maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average throughout their academic career.
 
In addition, to be eligible for the award, the student-athlete must have competed in the GLVC for a minimum of two years and completed 96 credit hours. A student-athlete can only earn the distinguished honor one time in his or her career.
 
UMSL's honorees include:
 
Magnus Andersen, Men's Soccer
Aga Blocka, Women's Swimming
Bianca Buie, Women's Tennis
Bre Colombo, Women's Soccer
Michael Houchin, Baseball
Ben-Hur Kasprzak, Men's Tennis
Milan Kovacs, Men's Tennis
Ben Leuthauser, Baseball
Grace Morrow, Women's Basketball
Selena Nolte, Volleyball
Madsy Richards, Volleyball
Kylie Rudsinski, Volleyball
Paige Schmittling, Softball
Laura Szorenyi, Women's Basketball
Amanda Vollmer, Volleyball
 
In all, 420 student-athletes across 15 member institutions earned the prestigious honor, marking the fifth time more than 300 honorees have been recognized since the award was first inaugurated in the spring of 2010.