2013-14 GLVC Academic All-Conference List (PDF)
INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) announced Monday that more than 2,300 student-athletes have garnered Academic All-GLVC honors for the 2013-14 season. After setting a new conference record with 2,002 honorees a year ago, the GLVC’s member schools shattered the mark this season as 2,318 representatives from the league’s 20 sports met the Academic-All Conference criteria.
The increase of 316 was aided by the addition of men’s and women’s swimming and diving as well as first-year member Truman State University. The GLVC saw an increase of 320 honorees from 2011-12 to set the previous conference record last year.
Not counting the three honorees from former football associate member Kentucky Wesleyan College, the 2,315 honorees from full-time GLVC members averaged out to 145 selections per school, which also broke last season’s record average of 124. Prior to last year, the per-school averages had been 105 in 2011-12, 98.5 in 2010-11 and 82.8 in 2009-10.
The Academic All-GLVC honor is bestowed upon student-athletes that have completed two semesters at their institution and maintained a 3.30 cumulative grade-point average or have attained a 3.40 GPA over the two most recent semesters. Student-athletes that have attained a 3.40 GPA and not completed two semesters are also honored.
A total of 114 student-athletes recorded a perfect 4.0 GPA during the 2013-14 academic year.
For the third consecutive season, the University of Indianapolis paced the league with 223 honorees, which included 35 swimming and diving honorees. Just was the case last year with the addition of football, UIndy nearly equaled its total of 186 from last year as the Greyhounds netted 188 honorees outside of the pool in 2013-14.
Truman netted 208 representatives in its first year in the GLVC to rank second overall. Drury University (192), McKendree University (178), and Lewis University (177) rounded out the top five, while Maryville University (164), Saint Joseph’s College (162) and Bellarmine University (154) filled out the top half of the league.
All top-seven programs marked their highest Academic All-GLVC totals in school history.
In addition, a conference-record 13 institutions had over 100 Academic All-GLVC selections, an improvement from last year’s previous best of 12. The other schools reaching 100 honorees included Missouri S&T (136), Rockhurst University (132), Quincy University (123), William Jewell College (122), and the University of Southern Indiana (120).
Lewis and McKendree led the conference by earning the most honorees in five sports each. The Flyers paced men’s basketball (8), men’s cross country (11), women’s track and field (25), men’s track and field (20) and volleyball (14). The Bearcats led the league in men’s golf (9) and women’s golf (12), men’s tennis (12), women’s tennis (10), and softball (15).
Indianapolis posted league-best totals in men’s swimming and diving (16), women’s swimming and diving (19), and men’s soccer (16), while Rockhurst set the standard in women’s soccer (23) and women’s basketball (12). Other conference leaders included Drury baseball (27), Maryville women’s cross country (15), and Truman football (36).
In terms of total honorees by sport, baseball’s 247 honorees beat out women’s soccer’s 243 representatives – a sport that has paced the conference the past two seasons with 229 and 212 student-athletes, respectively. Baseball finished third last season with a total of 195. Women’s track and field, the 2013 runner-up, placed third this season with 212 award winners.
Excluding men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and counting indoor and outdoor track and field as one sport for each gender, 15 of the 16 sports either tied or saw a spike in its total number of recipients from the previous season. Baseball (247) posted a conference-best increase of 52 from its total of 195 honorees in 2013.
Rounding out the sport totals were women’s soccer (243/+14 from 2013), women’s track and field (212/+12), men’s soccer (171/-5), softball (164/+12), football (151/+7), volleyball (147/+7), men’s track and field (136/+24), women’s cross country (135/+18), women’s basketball (127/+0), men’s cross country (85/+8), women’s tennis (83/+5), women’s golf (81/+8), men’s golf (73/+16), women’s swimming and diving (70), men’s basketball (68/+7), men’s tennis (66/+4), men’s swimming and diving (59).