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GRINNELL, Iowa - The Midwest Conference (MWC) announced its Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2016-17 season which includes 1,351 student-athletes who represent the MWC’s 10 institutions in 20 sports. 

Complete Academic All-Conference Team

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  award winners this year 248 of them were multi-sport winners.  A total of 143 recipients were honored in two sports, while 105 were awarded in three.  Including those multi-sport winners, the conference handed out 1,704 certificates.  

Grinnell College placed a league-high 214 student-athletes on the list. St. Norbert College finished with 183 recipients, including 31 football student-athletes, the most in any sport  The Green Knights also produced 116 award winners in the fall, the most of any school in any season.  Illinois College was third with 138 indivudal award winners.  Knox College followed with 118 winners, with Lake Forest College rounding out the top-five with 120 student-athletes.  

Monmouth College took sixth with 115 student-athletes.  Lawrence University finished seventh with 113 student-athletes, while Beloit College finished eighth with 109 student-athletes, narrowly edging Ripon College (107).  Cornell College finished in 10th with 102 student-athletes earning the award.    

Macalester College, a MWC affiliate member in the sport of football, had 28 selections, while Fontbonne University produced four honorees in women’s golf.  Macalester College completed its third year of competition in football this fall, while this was Fontbonne’s second season as a MWC affiliate for women’s golf.

Football earned 200 Academic All-Conference winners which were the most of any sport in the league followed by women’s outdoor track & field (132) and women’s indoor track & field (127). Women’s soccer checked in with 120 award winners and men’s soccer completed the top five with 102 honorees.  

Fall sports accounted for 757 award winners followed by winter (499) and spring (448) in the 2016-17 academic year.