CLEVELAND, Ohio (EMUEagles.com) — Eastern Michigan University gymnastics student-athlete Molly Parris (Hudson, Ohio-Hudson) was named the Mid-American Conference Scholar Athlete of the Week, the league office announced Wednesday, March 24.
The sophomore holds a 3.94 grade point average while studying elementary education, and becomes the first EMU gymnast to earn the honor since Kendall Valentin in 2017.
Parris helped her team win the 2021 MAC Championship, March 20, by hitting at career-high of 9.850 on vault to tie for first place, to become EMU' its first vault champion since Chris Deitrick in 1988.