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MIAC honors winter/spring student-athletes with Academic All-Conference distinction

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Student-athletes in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) continue to achieve in both competition and the classroom.
 
On Wednesday, the MIAC announced its 2022-23 Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference honorees, including 1,335 student-athletes. Combined with the 782 fall-sport athletes who were honored in January, the overall total of Academic All-Conference selections for the 2022-23 academic year sets a new Conference-high of 2,117, surpassing the previous record of 2,080, established last June.
 
The latest Academic All-Conference list spotlights more than 1,300 examples of student-athletes achieving excellence without compromise. This is the second consecutive June in which the MIAC's overall Academic All-Conference list has exceeded 2,000 student-athletes, with nine sports matching or setting single-season records in the process, including women's track & field (200), men's track & field (166), baseball (135), women's swimming & diving (121), men's hockey (116), women's basketball (79), men's tennis (58), women's golf (39), and men's golf (35). Women's hockey (114), softball (96), women's tennis (67), and men's basketball (52) all ended up within single digits of their respective sport's records.
 
In order to qualify for Academic All-MIAC status, student-athletes must be sophomores, juniors, or seniors by academic standards with a minimum cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale. Students must also complete one full-time academic year at their current institution before becoming eligible for the honor. An athlete must be a member of a MIAC-sponsored varsity sports team, be academically and athletically eligible, have utilized a season of participation per NCAA and MIAC definitions, and have remained on the sports roster through the conclusion of the sports season in order to be eligible for Academic All-Conference honors.
 
The 2022-23 MIAC Academic All-Conference honorees can be found here, classified alphabetically first by sport, then institution. To see all-time honorees, please visit the MIAC Academic All-Conference archives.