INDIANAPOLIS – The Great Lakes Valley Conference released its 2014-15 Winter and Spring Scholar-Athletes of the Year Thursday, with Brooke Boyts (women's tennis), Matthew Kaplanis (baseball) and Chanice Young (women's golf) all making the list. UIndy's trio joins fall-honoree Koby Orris (football) to give the Hounds four GLVC Scholar-Athletes in the 2014-15 academic year, tying them with Lewis University for most in the conference.
 
The league selects one student-athlete in each conference sport to be designated the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award is based upon athletic accomplishments, both team and individual, and academic performance in the season upon which the award is based. Each conference member has the opportunity to nominate one individual from its team for the award. Nominees must have a cumulative grade point average that meets Academic All-America standards (3.30), and freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible for the award. The voting is completed by each member institution's Faculty Athletic Representative (FAR).
 
Senior Brooke Boyts earned the women's tennis honor after compiling a perfect 6-0 mark in both singles and doubles play versus conference opponents. She finished 17-7 and 14-6 overall help the Hounds to a GLVC title and eventually their first-ever NCAA "Sweet 16" appearance. With an unblemished GPA of 4.0 this semester, the Goshen, Ind., native concluded her career with a 3.96 cumulative GPA in Pre-Art Therapy and Psychology.
 
Earlier this season, Boyts collected Capital One Academic All-District® accolades, as well as an Academic All-GLVC Team nod and a GLVC Council of President's Academic Excellence Award. She is the first Greyhound women's tennis player to capture GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor since Lindsey Fischer in 2007.
 
Junior accounting major Matthew Kaplanis upped his cumulative GPA to 3.98 after a shiny 4.0 GPA this spring. The 2015 GLVC Co-Pitcher of the Year compiled an 8-1 record and a 3.62 ERA on the mound, leading the conference in innings per start (7.0).
 
The 6-foot righty was named All-Midwest Region First Team by the NCBWA before picking up Capital One Academic All-America® First Team laurels. He is the second Greyhound baseball student-athlete in the last three years to take the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (Jake Hartley, 2013).

Senior Chanice Young capped a stellar collegiate career by leading the Greyhounds to the 2015 NCAA Division II national championship. A native of Evansville, Ind., Young tied for fifth on the year's biggest stage, helping secure UIndy's first-ever athletics team title.
 
Young was also a part of four consecutive GLVC championship teams – first in history – as well as four straight NCAA regional titles. She is a two-time All-GLVC performer and a Capital One Academic All-District® honoree. The nursing major compiled a 3.724 GPA this past semester to bump her cumulative GPA to 3.62. Thursday's announcement made it seven GLVC Scholar-Athletes of the Year in the last nine years for UIndy women's golf.