Contact: Chassidy Holloway, Associate Executive Director, holloway@midwestconference.org
 
GRINNELL, Iowa — The Midwest Conference (MWC) recognized 1,570 student-athletes as Academic All-Conference honorees for the 2023-24 academic year, announced Monday, July 15.
 
The list of honorees represents nine core member institutions and two affiliates across eighteen league-sponsored sports, including 881 student-athletes participating in men’s sports and 689 student-athletes participating in women’s sports.
 
Also featured are 250 multi-sport student-athletes with 102 two-sport participants, 147 in three sports, and one participant in four sports. Among the multi-sport student-athletes, women’s sports led the way with 138 representatives.
 
To be recognized as a MWC Academic All-Conference honoree, a student-athlete must have satisfied a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.33 for the awarded academic year, letter in any of the league’s fall, winter, or spring sports as a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior, and compete on a team that completed a minimum 50% of its scheduled contests.
 
Grinnell College led all institutions with 286 student-athletes receiving Academic All-conference honors, followed by Lawrence University with 177 and Lake Forest College with 166, highlighting the top three. The University of Chicago, a league affiliate in football and baseball, earned the most selections in a single sport with 73 football representatives.
 
Fall sports garnered 819 All-MWC selections as football led the way with a league-best 276 honorees. Spring sports picked up 599 awardees with baseball as the front-runner, posting 193 All-MWC selections. Winter sports produced 570 honorees, guided by 135 women’s indoor track & field representatives.
 
MWC Academic All-Conference honors are announced annually after the posting of spring term grades.

Updated: July 19, 2024 / 10:40 AM