RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Great American Conference office announced that 414 student-athletes achieved Academic All-Conference honors in the sports of football, volleyball, men's and women's soccer and men's and women's cross country, 43 more than the previous high for those six sports.
   
SWOSU was represented by 24 student-athletes on the Academic All-Conference team, with 11 coming from the Bulldog Football team, including CoSIDA Academic All-District selections Dalton Cooper and Braden Sweet. Other teams with student-athletes represented were Bulldog Volleyball with six, GAC Champion SWOSU Soccer with five and two from Bulldog Cross Country.
 
"I commend all of these student-athletes for finding balance between their work in the classroom and on the field of play," GAC Commissioner Will Prewitt said. "We continue to see records set with this honor. I applaud all of the administrators and coaches at our institutions as they continue raise the GAC's standard of excellence."
 
GAC football student-athletes garnered the most All-Academic selections, 149, followed by 63 from both men's and women's soccer. Rogers State, the GAC Men's Soccer Champions, tallied a league-leading 11 All-Academic selections. East Central's 13 All-Academic honorees in women's soccer led for that respective sport.
 
For student-athletes to be recognized on the Academic All-Conference team, they must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing (true freshmen and redshirt freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at the nominating institution. In addition, their grade-point average must be a minimum of 3.30 based on the 4.0 system. The GPA shall be cumulative for the athlete's entire collegiate career.
 
A full list of SWOSU student-athletes named to the Academic All-GAC Team is below:
 

Volleyball	Sophia DeSantiago	Sophomore	Health/Physical Education	Amarillo, Texas	3.63
Volleyball	Kaitlyn Dillon	Senior	Marketing	Edmond, Okla.	3.97
Volleyball	Sofia Gruden	Senior	Communications	Metamora, Ill.	3.56
Volleyball	Allie Hoang	Junior	Elementary Education	Plano, Texas	3.96
Volleyball	Valerie Vermillion	Senior	Exercise Science	Wylie, Texas	3.51
Volleyball	Emily Wood	Senior	Exercise Science	Peoria, Ariz.	3.80
Cross Country	Bailey Richardson	Sophomore	Health/Physical Education	Oklahoma City, Okla.	3.69
Cross Country	Josilyn Schenk	Sophomore	Pre-Pharmacy	Piedmont, Okla.	3.70
Soccer	Alexis Fowler	Senior	Health Science	Norman, Okla.	3.85
Soccer	Emery Hailey	Junior	Nursing	Grapevine, Texas	3.61
Soccer	Sandra Nabweteme	Senior	Engineering Physics	Kampala, Uganda	3.67
Soccer	Lauren Quintanilla	Sophomore	Health Science	Burleson, Texas	3.35
Soccer	Mikylin York	Junior	Exercise Science	Katy, Texas	3.89
Football	Ryan Buchanan	Senior	Business Management	Exeter, Calif.	3.53
Football	Colten Buie	Senior	Parks & Recreation Management	San Angelo, Texas	3.37
Football	Dalton Cooper	Junior	Exercise Science	Tuttle, Okla.	4.00
Football	Jordan Finn	Sophomore	Nursing	Moore, Okla.	3.42
Football	Trey Gooch	Sophomore	Biomedical Sciences	Oklahoma City, Okla.	3.53
Football	Tyler Marr	Senior	Engineering Technology	Beggs, Okla.	3.35
Football	Brock Mason	Sophomore	Engineering Physics	Tuttle, Okla.	4.00
Football	Alex Ramirez	Senior	Sports Management	Fort Worth, Texas	3.30
Football	Jacob Rodman	Senior	Business Administration	Wichita, Kan.	3.75
Football	Braden Sweet	Senior	Accounting	Perry, Okla.	3.98
Football	Gerald White	Senior	Health/Physical Education	Tipton, Okla.	3.67