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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
9/22/2014 Austin Gochneaur Men's Soccer
9/15/2014 Jessica Knepp Women's Golf
9/8/2014 Yves Dietrich Men's Soccer
9/1/2014 Trenton Norvell Football
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