INDIANAPOLIS – A school-record 27 UIndy student-athletes earned the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award for the 2015-16 season, the conference announced Wednesday.
 
The recipients of the GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award exemplify the outstanding student-athletes in the GLVC. Each honoree has exhausted his or her eligibility in the intercollegiate sport in which they participated and maintained at a least a 3.5 grade point average throughout their academic career.
 
In addition, the student-athlete must have competed in the GLVC for a minimum of two years and completed 96 credit hours.  A student-athlete can only earn the distinguished honor one time in his or her career.
 
The 27 honorees for the UIndy, its most since the award was first handed out in the spring of 2010, trailed only Drury University (31) and Quincy University (29) for highest in the league. In all, a record 356 GLVC student-athletes garnered the COP Academic Excellence Award, shattering the previous mark of 285 set in 2013-14.
 
See below for the list of Greyhound honorees:

UIndy GLVC COP Academic Excellence Award honorees
Trevor Forde, Baseball
Matthew Kaplanis, Baseball
Alex Ritchie, Baseball
Brady Thomas, Baseball
Mitch Huppert, Football
Chris Massaro, Football
Hayden Skirvin, Football
JT Hiquet, Men's Soccer
Zak Mitiche, Men's Soccer
Julian Shamsaie, Men's Soccer
Brendon Widau, Men's Soccer
Marius Bornkessel, Men's Swimming & Diving
Alan Horback, Men's Swimming & Diving
Dawid Rybinski, Men's Swimming & Diving
Luke Hubert, Men's Tennis
Jasmine Al-Anzi, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field
Molly Ward, Women's Golf
Morgan Foley, Softball
Cassie Reed, Softball
Lindsey Bryant, Women's Soccer
Taylor Cotherman, Women's Soccer
Ana Couto, Women's Swimming & Diving
Hannah Schuster, Women's Swimming & Diving
Allie Smith, Women's Tennis
Erin Connor, Women's Track & Field
Hailey Brown, Volleyball
Jamie Wallace, Volleyball