ST. LOUIS – Twenty-eight student-athletes highlight the 2017 Missouri Valley Football Honor Roll, as announced by the league office today. Those 28 student-athletes earned the league's highest academic achievement by capturing the Missouri Valley Football Conference President's Council Academic Excellence Award.
The President's Council Academic Excellence Award requires a minimum 3.5 cumulative grade point average (through Fall 2017 semester) and participation in athletics a minimum of two years. The student-athlete must be within 18 hours of graduation. Also, 182 student-athletes received the league's Commissioner's Academic Excellence Award, which requires a minimum GPA of 3.2 for the previous two semesters (freshmen are not eligible.