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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 Tuesday, the MIAC announced its 2023-24 Winter and Spring Academic All-Conference honorees, including 1,336 student-athletes. Combined with the 799 fall-sport athletes who were honored in January, the overall total of Academic All-Conference selections for the 2023-24 academic year sets a new Conference high of 2,135, surpassing the previous record of 2,117, 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 third consecutive June in which the MIAC's overall Academic All-Conference list has exceeded 2,000 student-athletes. Six sports matched or broke single-season records, including women's track & field (216), men's track & field (182), baseball (146), men's hockey (116), softball (102), and women's golf (42). Additional sport totals include women's hockey (106), women's swimming & diving (105), women's tennis (70), women's basketball (66), men's swimming & diving (56), men's basketball (50), men's tennis (48), and men's golf (31).
 
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 to be eligible for Academic All-Conference honors.
 
The 2023-24 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.