BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – On Tuesday it was announced that a record 354 Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes have earned the OVC Academic Medal of Honor for the 2020-21 academic year, 15 of them representing Tennessee State University. The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a Conference-sponsored sport. Every Academic Medal of Honor recipient for the 2020-21 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

The 354 recipients are the most in a single academic year in the history of the award, smashing the previous record of 293 honorees a year ago. It marks the third-straight year the league has set a record with number of award winners. Over the past five years there have been 1,384 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.

The OVC will announce the recipients of the Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Academic Achievement Award and the Team Academic Achievement Awards later this week.

OVC Medal of Honor Recipients
Samone Nelson Jr. - Men's Basketball
Kennedy Davis - Women's Basketball
Lyndsey Dugan- Softball
Francys King - Softball
Meaghan Lewis- Softball
Renae Spears - Softball
Savanah - Softball
Maksims Kazijevs - Men's Tennis
Daniel Perez Caraballo - Men's Tennis
Aarushi Kakkar - Women's Tennis
Eva Schwartz - Women's Tennis
Naomi von Bose - Women's Tennis
Alysoune Coleman - Women's Track and Field/Cross Country
Kendall Bullock - Volleyball
Gina Rivera Ortiz - Volleyball