ST. LOUIS – Illinois State volleyball juniors Stef Jankiewicz and Sydney Holt have been elected to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete First Team, the league office announced on Tuesday morning. The pair were among 13 volleyball student-athletes recognized as first-team honorees.
A criminal justice major, Jankiewicz holds a 3.65 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) and was named a recipient of the MVC Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award at the end of the 2018-19 school year. She has been placed on the MVC Honor Roll twice and is a four-time AFNI Honor Roll selection. The Farmington Hills, Michigan, native was featured in the Valley's Scholar-Athlete Spotlight on Oct.