Portions of story courtesy of glvcsports.com
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) announced Tuesday, June 23rd, that 4,768 student-athletes have garnered GLVC All-Academic distinction for the 2025-26 season.
The GLVC All-Academic honor is bestowed upon student-athletes who meet a cumulative GPA of 3.30 over two semesters of an academic year at the institution.
The list of honorees features students from the following sports: baseball (466), men's basketball (121), women's basketball (177), women's bowling (61), men's cross country (168), women's cross country (145), football (388), men's golf (103), women's golf (80), men's lacrosse (186), women's lacrosse (152), men's soccer (398), women's soccer (352), softball (258), STUNT (119), men's swimming and diving (194), women's swimming and diving (153), men's tennis (85), women's tennis (81), men's track and field (324), women's track and field (310), men's volleyball (89), women's volleyball (196), men's wrestling (99), and women's wrestling (62).
Not counting the 132 honorees from the league's 13 associate members, the 4,636 honorees from 15 full-time GLVC members averaged out to a record 309 selections per school. Over the course of the last five years, the per-school averages have been 285.7 (2024-25), 279.6 (2023-24), 256 (2022-23), 250.1 (2021-22), and 257.5 (2020-21).
McKendree set a school-record 378 recipients of the 4,768 total conference-wide student-athletes who have qualified for the recognition. The Bearcats' previous record for this specific honor was back in 2021, when they had 349.
Full list of the GLVC All-Academic recipients for McKendree:
BASEBALL (39)
MEN'S BASKETBALL (12)
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (16)
WOMEN'S BOWLING (11)
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (8)
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (10)
FOOTBALL (48)
MEN'S GOLF (18)
WOMEN'S GOLF (6)
WOMEN'S LACROSSE (13)
MEN'S SOCCER (18)
WOMEN'S SOCCER (25)
SOFTBALL (18)
MEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING (17)
WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING (12)
MEN'S TENNIS (11)
WOMEN'S TENNIS (9)
MEN'S TRACK & FIELD (17)
WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD (20)
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL (13)
MEN'S WRESTLING (24)
WOMEN'S WRESTLING (13)
* Denotes number of times won
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