Bradley Student-Athletes Receive MVC Academic Honors
More than 80 percent of Bradley University student-athletes received recognition from the Missouri Valley Conference for their academic success.
07/07/2017 3:15 PM
More than 80 percent of Bradley University student-athletes received recognition from the Missouri Valley Conference for their academic success during the 2016-17 school year, according to the annual announcement of the MVC President’s Council Academic Awards, Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Awards and MVC Honor Roll Friday morning.The President’s Council Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.8 cumulative grade point average (through Spring 2017 semester), participation in athletics a minimum of two years and the student-athlete must be within 18 hours of graduation. The Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5 for the previous two semesters, a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average and participation in athletics, and to qualify for the MVC Honor Roll, Valley student-athletes must earn a minimum 3.2 grade point average for a specified term (Fall 2016/Spring 2017) and must have a minimum of 12 hours of enrollment during the fall or spring semesters.
Bradley’s recipients of the President’s Council Academic Excellence Award include men’s golfer Bobby Jacobs; women’s cross country runner Molly Leveille; and women’s cross country and track runners Nicole Lopez-Villegas, Rachel Sudbury and Katie Wampole. The quintet were among Bradley’s 60 recipients of the Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award and 180 qualifers for the MVC Honor Roll. Of Bradley’s 224 student-athletes during the 2016-17 school year, 80.4 percent qualified for the MVC Honor Roll.
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