12 Named to MVC Scholar-Athlete Team

12 Named to MVC Scholar-Athlete Team

2/28/2017 10:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Official Release

ST. LOUIS--Twelve UNI Swimming and Diving athletes have been named to the MVC Scholar Athlete Team for the 2016-17 season.

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 77. All seven schools had at least one athlete who posted a 3.90 or above.

UNI's honorees included four seniors: Alexa Klimes, Jill Georgen, Autumn Roepsch, Veronica Herrmann and Aftin Phyfe. The juniors earning honors include Molly Lembezeder and Hannah Brummel. Sophomores Lauren Kacmarynski Shayla Warrick, Alyssa Deuso, Crystal Florman, and Abby Meyer.