Belmont Student-Athletes Highlight MVC Honor Roll

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - - Belmont University student-athletes highlighted the 2024-25 Missouri Valley Conference Honor Roll, the league office announced Wednesday.
 
196 Belmont student-athletes - nearly 77.5 percent of all Bruins in 2024-25 - earned MVC Honor Roll distinction, emblematic of holding a minimum 3.2 grade-point average for a specified term.
 
Earlier this month, Belmont claimed the 2024-25 MVC All-Academic Award – with a 3.573 department-wide GPA.
 
Belmont University has now claimed a conference academic achievement award 22 of the last 24 academic years.
 
19 Belmont student-athletes earned the league's highest honor, the MVC Board of Directors Academic Excellence Award.
 
Tyler Lundblade – Men's Basketball
Isaiah Walker – Men's Basketball
Gavin Morrow – Men's Cross Country/Track and Field
Oscar Hough – Men's Soccer
Elizabeth Suder – Women's Basketball
Kaitlyn Vanderkolk – Women's Cross Country/Track and Field
Eva Graham – Women's Golf
Chloe Tarkany – Women's Golf
Allison Brockelman – Women's Soccer
Emily Cockrill – Softball
Rayna Cruickshanks – Softball
Baie Ensio – Softball
Maya Johnson – Softball
Aly Getty – Women's Tennis
Emory Moore – Women's Track and Field
McKenna Prouty – Women's Track and Field
Nicola van Der Merwe – Women's Track and Field
Elizabeth Godfrey – Volleyball
Erina Shin -- Volleyball
 
The MVC Board of Directors Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.8 cumulative grade point average, partici­pation in athletics a minimum of two years, and the student-athlete must be within 18 hours of graduation (by the end of the Spring 2025 semester).
 
For the 2025 spring semester, 84 percent of eligible Belmont student-athletes posted a 3.0 grade-point average or higher, with 64 percent earning a 3.5 GPA or higher.
 
Moreover, the league extended its Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award, which requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5 for each of the previous two semesters, a minimum 3.2 cumulative grade point average, and participation in athletics a minimum of two years. 151 Belmont student-athletes were honored.

Rounding out the accolades, the MVC presented its league honor roll. To qualify for the Valley Honor Roll, a student-athlete must have recorded a minimum 3.2 grade point average for a specified term (Fall 2024/Spring 2025), must have been a member of an athletics team, and must have been enrolled full time during the term they earned the honor. 
 
About Belmont University  
Located near the heart of thriving Nashville, Tennessee, Belmont University consists of nearly 9,000 students who come from every state and 33 countries. The University is nationally recognized for its innovative approach as well as its commitment to undergraduate teaching (U.S. News & World Report). As a Christ-centered, student-focused community, Belmont's mission is to develop diverse leaders of purpose, character and wisdom who possess a transformational mindset and are eager and equipped to make the world a better place. With more than 115 areas of undergraduate study, 41 master's programs and eight doctoral degrees, Belmont University aims to be the leading Christ-centered university in the world, producing leaders who will radically champion the pursuit of life abundant for all people. For more information, visit http://www.belmont.edu.