The Ohio Valley Conference honored two SIUE athletics programs as recipients of the 2014 Team Academic Achievement Awards.
Women’s cross country and women’s golf, garnering the award for the second-consecutive season, finished with the greatest percentage of their student-athletes who achieved a grade point average of 3.25 or higher. Eight different OVC institutions claimed at least one award.
The women’s golf team, which has carried the highest GPA among SIUE athletics programs for four-consecutive semesters, notched a 3.79 team GPA. Women’s cross country finished with the second-best team GPA at 3.53.
In addition, 86 SIUE student-athletes across 14 sports earned spots on the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll, including the 11 distinguished student-athletes that were recipients of the conference’s Medal of Honor award.
Medal of Honor winners achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA, while members of the Honor Roll earned a grade point average of 3.25 or higher.
SIUE’s Medal of Honor winners included four women’s golfers: Brittney Jostes (St. Charles, Mo.), Miranda Lidisky (Swansea), Molly Marcum (LeRoy) and Ashton Stair (Milton, Wis.).
Other Medal of Honor winners were Caleb Wilkerson (Festus, Mo.), baseball; Ashley Capotosto (Des Plaines), women’s basketball; Erin Kennedy (Wilmington), women’s cross country and track and field; Megan Campbell (Pekin), women’s soccer; Nicolas Vincent (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada), men’s tennis; Mia Frogner (Oslo, Norway), women’s tennis; Cori Harris (Champaign), volleyball.
For a complete listing of SIUE’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll recipients by sport, visit siuecougars.com.
For the complete OVC release, visit ovcsports.com.