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GRINNELL, Iowa - The Midwest Conference (MWC) has announced its Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2015-16 season which includes 1,487 student-athletes, representing the MWC’s 11 institutions in 20 sports.
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The criteria to become an Academic All-Conference selection includes a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.33 which is calculated only in the awarded academic year. Freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors who letter in any of the MWC’s fall, winter or spring sports are eligible for the award.
Of the 1,487award winners this year 300 of them were multi-sport winners. A total of 140 recipients were honored in two sports, while 159 were awarded in three sports, with one student-athlete lettering in four. Including those multi-sport winners, the conference handed out 1,948 certificates, which surpasses the 1,858 awarded (1,425 individual winners) last academic year.
Carroll University placed a league-high 279 on the list, including 112 in the fall season, the most of any school in any season. Grinnell College finished with 278 recipients while St. Norbert College was third with 239 award winners, including 33 women’s outdoor track and field athletes, the most any one team had honored. Knox College followed with 164 winners, with Beloit College rounding out the top-five with 162.
Illinois College and Lawrence University were behind them with 158 honorees each. Monmouth College (144) and Ripon College (125) were next on the list. Cornell College (120) and Lake Forest College (96) rounded out the institutions.
Macalester College, a MWC affiliate member in the sport of football, had 23 selections, while Fontbonne University produced three honorees in women’s golf. Macalester College completed their second year of competition in football this fall, while this was Fontbonne’s first season as a MWC affiliate for women’s golf.
Football totaled 193 Academic All-Conference winners which were the most of any sport in the league followed by women’s outdoor track & field and women’s indoor track & field (156). Women’s cross country checked in with 132 award winners and women’s soccer completed the top-five with 131.
Fall sports accounted for 834 honorees followed by winter (562) and spring (552) in the 2015-16 academic year.