A day after 140 Western Kentucky student-athletes were honored for their achievements in the classroom, 41 have earned additional accolades by earning a spot on the 2017-18 Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal list.
The 41 WKU student-athletes are a part of 708 total student-athletes across the league who received the honor for achieving a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher. With eight total academic medalists, the women’s soccer team led all WKU sport programs while softball had six, and football, women’s golf and volleyball each had four.
Over the past calendar year, 100 WKU student-athletes received their diploma from the university with 46 graduating in May 2017, 18 completed their degrees in the summer, while 35 received their degrees this past December.