2012-13 GLVC Academic All-Conference List (PDF, 20 Pages)
INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) announced Monday that exactly 2,002 student-athletes have garnered Academic All-GLVC honors for the 2012-13 season. After setting a new conference record with 1,680 honorees a year ago, the GLVC’s member schools shattered the mark this season as representatives from the league’s 18 sports met the Academic-All Conference criteria.
The increase of 320 student-athletes was aided by the addition of football in 2012, which boasted 144 honorees and included a combined 18 selections from GLVC associate members Central State University and Urbana University. The balance, however, still equated to an 11-honoree average bump per school. Not counting the 18 associate member selections, the 1,982 honorees from full-time GLVC members averaged out to 124 selections per school, which also broke last season’s record average of 105. Prior to last year, the per-school averages had been 98.5 in 2010-11 and 82.8 in 2009-10.
This year’s recipients showcase the academic depth within the conference. For the second consecutive season, the University of Indianapolis paced the league with 186 honorees, which included 28 football selections. Without football, the Greyhounds nearly equaled their GLVC-leading total of 159 recipients from a year ago. Bellarmine University was represented by 165 selections, while Maryville University (160) rated third, McKendree University (159) was fourth, Lewis University (158) ranked fifth, and Drury University (157) finished in sixth. All top-six programs marked their highest Academic All-GLVC totals in school history.
In addition, a conference-record 12 institutions had over 100 Academic All-GLVC selections, an improvement from last year’s previous best of 10. The other schools reaching 100 honorees included William Jewell College (136), Missouri S&T (129), Saint Joseph’s College (125), University of Southern Indiana (120), Quincy University (115), and Rockhurst University (108).
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.
In its first season competing in the GLVC, McKendree led the conference by earning the most honorees in four sports, including volleyball (11), men’s golf (10), women’s golf (10) and women’s tennis (8). The Bearcats were a part of multiple-team ties in women’s tennis and volleyball as Bellarmine, Drury and Maryville also boasted eight tennis honorees, while Lewis, Quincy, Rockhurst and Saint Joseph’s each garnered 11 volleyball recipients as well.
Three institutions – Drury, Lewis and Maryville – ranked second in the GLVC for pacing the conference in three sports. In addition to women’s tennis, Drury recorded league-bests in baseball (25) and women’s soccer (20); Lewis was represented in volleyball, men’s track and field (19) and softball (18); and Maryville scored a GLVC-high in both men’s (12) and women’s (17) cross country in addition its eight women’s tennis standouts.
Other sport leaders included Bellarmine men’s tennis (9), UIndy men’s soccer (19) and women’s track and field (34), Rockhurst men’s basketball (7), University of Wisconsin-Parkside women’s basketball (12), and William Jewell football (31).
In terms of total honorees by sport, women’s soccer earned a conference-high 229 selections after leading the league last year with 212 honorees. Women’s track and field (200) soared 34 selections from a year ago to rank second, followed closely behind by baseball (196), which increased 21 from 2012.
Excluding football and counting indoor and outdoor track and field as one sport for each gender, 11 of the 15 sports saw a spike in its total number of recipients from the previous season. Men’s soccer (176), which ranked third this year, posted a conference-best increase of 38 from its total of 138 honorees in 2012.
Rounding out the sport totals were softball (153/+22 from 2012), football (144/NA), volleyball (140/+10), women’s basketball (127/-1), women’s cross country (117/+12), men’s track and field (112/-2), women’s tennis (78/-7), men’s cross country (77/-4), women’s golf (73/+13), men’s tennis (62/+5), men’s basketball (61/+14), and men’s golf (57/+4).
The complete list of 2012-13 Academic All-GLVC honorees can be found by clicking the link at the top of the page.