MVC Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team announced

Aces well-represented on the squad

 ST.LOUIS – Nine members of the University of Evansville women’s swimming and diving team were named to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Team on Tuesday.

Representing the Purple Aces were: Abby Smith (3.95), Kasey Rein (3.93), Amy Smith (3.74). Mackenzie Harris (3.72), Jessica Hildebrand (3.68), Courtney Coverdale (3.63), Maja Magnusson (3.60), Michaela Kent (3.58) and Kristen Myers (3.24).

“It is an honor for these ladies to be named to the 2016 MVC Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team,” Purple Aces head coach Rickey Perkins said.  “They did an outstanding job of balancing their academics and athletics. I am very proud of each of them.”

Scholar-Athlete honors require athletes to have completed at least one year and maintain either a 3.2 grade-point average and obtain all-conference honors, achieve a 3.5 grade-point average and finish top-16 in an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 grade-point average and participate in the MVC championship.

The Missouri Valley Conference had an outstanding number of student-athletes on the scholar-athlete team this season for swimming and diving, topping out at 73. In the 2015-16 season, 32 of these scholar-athletes had an impressive GPA at or above a 3.8 and 8 of those had a 4.0 GPA.