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Scholar Athlete of the Month

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Grant Palmer

  • Award
    Scholar Athlete of the Month
  • Week Of
    9/12/2024
  • Sport
    Baseball
  • Bio
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In August, Palmer was named a recipient of 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 2023-24 academic year carried a perfect 4.0 grade point average. Of the 310 award winners, 50 were awarded Academic Medals of Honor for multiple sports (counted just once in the final recipients list).

Over the past five years, there have been over 1,500 student-athletes earn the OVC Academic Medal of Honor.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
11/16/2015 Sean McGuire Football
11/10/2015 Melanie Pearson Women's Swimming and Diving
11/3/2015 Diego Lopez Men's Soccer
10/26/2015 Andrew Blackburn Men's Golf
10/19/2015 Jacob Judd Football
10/12/2015 Michaela Cody Women's Soccer
10/5/2015 Nathan Knuffman Football
9/28/2015 Peyton Crosser Women's Volleyball
9/21/2015 Alejandro Pacheco Men's Soccer
9/14/2015 Courtney Lubbers Women's Tennis
9/8/2015 Brett Taylor Football
9/2/2015 Victoria Kappel Women's Soccer
5/11/2015 Brent Turner Baseball
5/4/2015 Nate Davis Men's Golf
4/28/2015 Sammy Marshall Softball
4/20/2015 Jessica Schultz Women's Golf
4/13/2015 Aaliyah White Women's Track and Field
4/6/2015 Andrew Blackburn Men's Golf
3/30/2015 JJ Reimer Baseball
3/24/2015 Arianna Demos Women's Tennis
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