The University of Southern Indiana Department of Athletics is pleased to announce that its student-athletes received a record total of 145 Academic All-Great Lakes Valley Conference awards for the 2015-16 year.
In addition, the GLVC recognized eight USI athletic programs with 2015-16 Team Academic All-GLVC honors. USI team award recipients are women’s cross country (3.538), women’s tennis (3.527), women’s soccer (3.516), women’s basketball (3.475), women’s track & field (3.466), volleyball (3.436), women’s golf (3.352), and men’s soccer (3.3.27). Women’s cross country increased its team-GPA by 12.6 percent in 2015-16 to lead USI.
Amongst the individual academic awards, USI was one of 11 schools in the conference to have at least 145 Academic All-GLVC accolades and was second amongst public institutions — Truman State University, which fields football as well as men’s and women’s swimming and diving, was first amongst public schools and first overall with 228 accolades.
The Screaming Eagles saw their student-athletes earn 72 repeat honors in their respective sports, while 18 student-athletes have earned at least four Academic All-GLVC awards.
USI women’s cross country/track & field seniors Jamie Adkins (Owensboro, Kentucky) and Madeline Kriz (Danville, Kentucky) led the honorees by earning their seventh and eighth Academic All-GLVC honors, respectively, while men’s cross country/track & field seniors Johnnie Guy (Palmyra, Indiana) and Tyler Pence (Springfield, Indiana) garnered their sixth and seventh awards. Senior men’s cross country/track & field runner Josh Guy (Palmyra, Indiana) also was named Academic All-GLVC for a fifth and sixth time.
Other student-athletes to earn four Academic All-GLVC awards in one sport included baseball’s Kyle Niemeier (Evansville, Indiana); men’s soccer’s Logan Ball (Newburgh, Indiana), John Rohling (Nashville, Tennessee), and Lucas Woodford (Newburgh, Indiana); softball’s Janna Green  (Glenwood, Indiana); volleyball’s Erica Oberbroeckling (Westfield, Indiana); women’s golf’s Anastasia Carter (Granger, Indiana); women’s soccer’s McKinsey Durham (Madisonville, Kentucky),  Shelby Tarantino (Loveland, Ohio), and Madi Vellky (Dublin, Ohio); and women’s tennis’ Elizabeth Wilm(Evansville, Indiana).
To be eligible for Academic All-GLVC, a student-athlete must participate in a GLVC sponsored sport and have a cumulative 3.3 grade point average (GPA). This year’s record 2,584 Academic All-GLVC awards surpassed last year’s record total of 2,431.
USI’s eight team awards are tied for 10th-most in the GLVC this year and third amongst the GLVC’s public institutions.
The GLVC recognizes each team from member institutions that have maintained a 3.30 grade point average for the academic year. This season’s total of 137 sets a new conference record after last year’s record-total of 119.
