RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – On Monday, the Great American Conference announced that a record 1,269 student-athletes achieved Academic All-Conference honors, an increase of 293 from the prior high.
 
SWOSU had 86 student-athletes earn Academic All-Conference honors, including 13 apiece from Bulldog Baseball and Football and 11 from SWOSU Track & Field. Beyond that, SWOSU had nine players from Women's Basketball, Soccer and Softball, a league-high eight from Men's Golf, five each from Women's Golf and Volleyball and two apiece from Men's Basketball and Cross Country.
 
 "The 2020-21 academic year presented our institutions, student-athletes and professors with unprecedented challenges," GAC Commissioner Will Prewitt said "For our student-athletes to achieve at a record-setting rate speaks to their impressive ability to excel in all circumstances."
 
GAC football student-athletes garnered the most All-Academic selections, 233, followed by 168 from baseball, 134 in softball 113 from women's track & field and 100 in volleyball.
 
For student-athletes to be recognized on the Academic All-Conference team, they must have enrolled as freshmen prior to the fall of 2020. 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 list of SWOSU's Academic All-Conference Honorees is below:
 

Baseball	Jordan Alexander (Jr.)	Exercise Science	Canyon, Texas	3.51
Baseball	Zach Baxley (Jr.)	Kinesiology	Wichita, Kan.	3.37
Baseball	Tyler Carpenter (Sr.)	Parks & Recreation Management	Katy, Texas	3.91
Baseball	Cale Crutchfield (Jr.)	Finance	Collinsville, Okla.	3.69
Baseball	Ryan Dos Santos (Jr.)	Business Marketing	Missasagua, Ontario	3.42
Baseball	Vance Ferraro (Jr.)	Business Management	Trinidad, Colo.	3.5
Baseball	Chris Goldston (So.)	Parks & Wildlife Law Enforcement	Leedey, Okla.	3.47
Baseball	Chase Hamilton (Jr.)	Political Science	Calera, Okla.	3.67
Baseball	Dakota Jones (Sr.)	Sports Management	Joshua, Texas	3.31
Baseball	Camden Kelly (So.)	Business Marketing	Stafford, Texas	3.8
Baseball	Griffin Larsen (Jr.)	Accounting	Overland Park, Kan.	3.59
Baseball	Nate Postlethwait (Jr.)	Sports Management	Wichita, Kan.	3.73
Baseball	Miguel Soto (Jr.)	Parks & Recreation Management	El Paso, Texas	3.33
Men's Basketball	Kamden Gipson (Jr.)	Healthcare Administration	Edmond, Okla.	3.39
Men's Basketball	Mason Hart (So.)	Applied Engineering Management	Pond Creek, Okla.	3.91
Women's Basketball	Ashlyn Basler (Jr.)	Health Sciences	Yukon, Okla.	3.96
Women's Basketball	Taber Beer (Sr.)	Health & Physical Education	Hammon, Okla.	3.74
Women's Basketball	Regan Crawford (So.)	Undecided	Piedmont, Okla.	3.79
Women's Basketball	Bethany Franks (Sr.)	Early Childhood Education	Norman, Okla.	3.75
Women's Basketball	Karly Gore (So.)	Health Sciences	Taloga, Okla.	3.67
Women's Basketball	Macy Gore (So.)	Health Sciences	Taloga, Okla.	3.43
Women's Basketball	Maddy North (So.)	Health Sciences	Newcastle, Okla.	3.6
Women's Basketball	Lauren Ramey (Jr.)	Health Sciences	Kiefer, Okla.	3.69
Women's Basketball	Maddie Sperle (Sr.)	Health Sciences	Piedmont, Okla.	3.58
Cross Country	Bailey Richardson (Jr.)	Health & Physical Education	Oklahoma City, Okla.	3.71
Cross Country	Josilyn Schenk (Jr.)	Pharmacy	Piedmont, Okla.	3.68
Football	Landen Abbott (So.)	Health & Physical Education	Cache, Okla.	3.66
Football	Phill Baker (Jr.)	Public Health	New Town, N.D.	3.3
Football	Chance Bratten (Jr.)	Biological Science	Thomas, Okla.	3.83
Football	Trey Gooch (Sr.)	Biomedical Science	Oklahoma City, Okla.	3.64
Football	Aaron Jeffreys (So.)	Exercise Science	Moore, Okla.	3.51
Football	Brock Mason (Sr.)	Engineering Physics & Mathematics	Tuttle, Okla.	4
Football	Justin Mason (Sr.)	English	Los Angeles, Calif.	3.56
Football	Landis Morris (So.)	Undecided	Jenks, Okla.	3.47
Football	Billy Nunn (So.)	Pharmacy	Anadarko, Okla.	3.44
Football	Christian Ramirez (So.)	Allied Health	Brewer, Texas	3.54
Football	Kellan Smith (Sr.)	Graduate	Hobart, Okla.	3.75
Football	Jared Sutter (So.)	Wildland Firefighting	Beggs, Okla.	3.77
Football	Pierce Warn (Jr.)	Political Science	Lawton, Okla.	3.53
Men's Golf	Conner Boydston (So.)	Business Marketing	Randlett, Okla.	3.87
Men's Golf	Heston Brown (Sr.)	Business Entrepreneurship	Cordell, Okla.	3.32
Men's Golf	Kason Cook (Sr.)	Business Management	Hydro, Okla.	4
Men's Golf	Cameron Gallagher (So.)	Psychology	Longniddry, Scotland	3.78
Men's Golf	Gerardo Herrera (Jr.)	Business Marketing	Morelia, Mexico	3.31
Men's Golf	Jacob Stoller (Jr.)	Parks & Wildlife Law Enforcement	Owasso, Okla.	3.69
Men's Golf	Anders Strand (So.)	Mathematics	Solrod Strand, Denmark	3.53
Men's Golf	Gregor Weck (Sr.)	Psychology	Wiesbaden, Germany	3.97
Women's Golf	Megan Brown (So.)	Accounting	Cordell, Okla.	3.3
Women's Golf	Rebecca Lau (So.)	Marketing	Puchong, Selagor Malaysia	3.56
Women's Golf	Georgia Miller (So.)	Sports Management	Kamloops, British Columbia	3.5
Women's Golf	Zoe Morton (So.)	Finance	Perthshire, Scotland	3.47
Women's Golf	Mikaela Rindermann (Jr.)	Business Management	Norman, Okla.	3.75
Soccer	Kirstyn Dill (So.)	Nursing	Austin, Texas	3.71
Soccer	Emery Hailey (Sr.)	Nursing	Grapevine, Texas	3.61
Soccer	Kylee Martin (Sr.)	Parks & Recreation Management	Tucson, Ariz.	3.34
Soccer	Brenna McGuirk (So.)	Nursing	Albuquerque, N.M.	3.58
Soccer	Elizabeth Moreno (So.)	Kinesiology	Allen, Texas	3.41
Soccer	Nicole Petrino (Jr.)	Accounting	Albuquerque, N.M.	3.48
Soccer	Brooke Scott (So.)	Health Sciences	Red Oak, Texas	3.74
Soccer	Claire Torry (So.)	Pre-Pharmacy	Chatham, Ill.	3.41
Soccer	Tianna Watkins (So.)	Undecided	Arlington, Texas	3.39
Softball	Jessica Carmo (Sr.)	Accounting	Placentia, Calif.	3.65
Softball	Brianna Cryer (So.)	Elementary Education	Fort Worth, Texas	3.75
Softball	Alisa Friesen (Jr.)	Ag Business	Arnett, Okla.	4
Softball	Tara Hibbler (So.)	Exercise Science	Piedmont, Okla.	3.53
Softball	Jewell Lee (Sr.)	Allied Health	Yukon, Okla.	3.69
Softball	Ashtyn McAdoo (Jr.)	Chemistry	Piedmont, Okla.	3.85
Softball	Breanna Simmons (Sr.)	Accounting	Hendrix, Okla.	3.84
Softball	Skye Tilley (So.)	Undecided	Ripley, Okla.	3.59
Softball	Gracen Williamson (Jr.)	Accounting	Woodward, Okla.	3.88
Track & Field	Elah Alcuitas (So.)	Biomedical Science & Chemistry	Enid, Okla.	3.92
Track & Field	Alexis Chao (So.)	Exercise Science	Lawton, Okla.	3.84
Track & Field	Annie Haught (So.)	Nursing	Collinsville, Okla.	3.85
Track & Field	Hanna Hill (So.)	Biology	Sweetwater, Okla.	3.34
Track & Field	Sabrina Hughbanks (So.)	Early Childhood Education	Alva, Okla.	3.91
Track & Field	Makynna Koper (Sr.)	Chemistry	Weatherford, Okla.	3.91
Track & Field	Alexy Maroney (So.)	Exercise Science	Guthrie, Okla.	3.59
Track & Field	Rachel Masson (So.)	Mass Communications	Oklahoma City, Okla.	3.95
Track & Field	Terri Misialek (So.)	Business Management	Edmond, Okla.	3.83
Track & Field	Jaclyn Robertson (So.)	Exercise Science	Lawton, Okla.	3.85
Track & Field	Kayleigh Shankle (So.)	Nursing	Poteau, Okla.	3.88
Volleyball	Emma Cohalla (Sr.)	Elementary Education	Liberty, Mo.	3.94
Volleyball	Sophia DeSantiago (So.)	Health & Physical Education	Amarillo, Texas	3.79
Volleyball	Allie Hoang (Sr.)	Elementary Education	Plano, Texas	3.98
Volleyball	Maicee Morgan (So.)	Allied Health	Edmond, Okla.	3.76
Volleyball	Josie Pumphrey (So.)	Allied Health	West Point, Iowa	3.46