CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. – A total of 47 Southeast Missouri student-athletes earned the Ohio Valley Conference Academic Medal of Honor for the 2024-25 academic year.
The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a Conference-sponsored sport. Every Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2024-25 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 GPA.
SEMO had the second-most selections in the league just one behind Eastern Illinois and Lindenwood which each had 48 selections.
In total, the OVC had 349 OVC Medal of Honor recipients, its second-highest in league history (trailing only the 356 winners in 2020-21. This year's total was 37 honorees higher than a year ago.
Over the past five years there have been over 1,590 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.
The OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards next week.
Baseball (1)
Ethan Osborne
Men's Cross Country (6)
Nick Cimmarusti*
Garrett Dumke*
Clayton Eftink*
Noah Little*
Sam Rinehart*
Justin Splitt*
Women's Cross Country (6)
Brooklyn Bender*
Lauren Eftink*
Layla Fliege*
Sarah Russom*
Alayna Sparr*
Kayla Vogelsang *
Football (2)
Payton Brown
McCoy Casey
Women's Soccer (7)
Ella Baldwin
Grace Crowden
Sophia Elfrink
Cayla Koerner
Katelyn Miller
Justi Nelson
Sophie Shrum
Softball (3)
Taryn Coon
Sophie Schupp
Aubrie Shore
Women's Tennis (1)
Maja Bajorek
Men's Track & Field (9)
Nick Cimmarusti*
Garrett Dumke*
Clayton Eftink*
Sullivan Gleason
Paden Lewis
Noah Little*
Connor Moore
Sam Rinehart*
Justin Splitt*
Women's Track & Field (15)
Megan Aubuchon
Brooklyn Bender*
Clara Billing
Ava Dumke
Leanza Dwaah
Lauren Eftink*
Layla Fliege*
Molly Grohmann
Tayler Gudde
Kendall Holweg
Alaina Lester
Sarah Russom*
Alayna Sparr*
Anna Thomason
Kayla Vogelsang*
Volleyball (9)
Alayna Christner
Kayla Closset
Holland Guilliams
Megan Holder
Abby Johnson
Alaina Lester
Jenny Shook
Avery Torrey
Jacey Young
