(Photo by August Jennewein)

The Great Lakes Valley Conference has identified 12 University of Missouri–St. Louis student-athletes who have earned the GLVC Council of Presidents’ Academic Excellence Award.

The honorees 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 as a collegiate athlete and maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average throughout their academic career. In addition, to be eligible for the award, the student-athlete must have competed in the GLVC for a minimum of two years and completed 96 credit hours.

The number of recipients for the award, which was first inaugurated in the spring of 2010, came just two honorees shy of matching the league record of 285 set last year.

The list of 2014-15 GLVC Council of Presidents’ Academic Excellence Award recipients from UMSL include:

Shane Brinker, baseball
Paul Moritz, baseball
Chris True, baseball
Kelly McGovern, women’s basketball
Bailey Hopper, women’s golf
Brooke Barczewski, women’s soccer
Liz Drennan, women’s soccer
Mary Kopsky, women’s soccer
Brianna Butler, softball
Katie Rutledge, softball
Lina Parra, women’s tennis
Haley Brightwell, volleyball