ST. LOUIS -- Nick McGlynn of Drake highlights a list of 14 student-athletes honored as part of the 2019 MVC Scholar-Athlete Teams, announced today by the league office. McGlynn, one of three MVC student-athletes to earn 2018-19 Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic all-district honors, is being recognized as the MVC Enterprise Bank and Trust Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Voting was conducted by league’s sports information directors.
2019 Scholar-Athlete Team (PDF)
McGlynn is a repeat honoree on the league’s scholar-athlete team as he was a 2018 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team selection. Earlier this week, he was named first-team All-MVC and the league’s Defensive Player of the Year after helping lead the Bulldogs to their first regular-season league title since 2008. McGlynn is the first Bulldog to earn Defensive Player of the Year honors since the award’s creation in 1989. In addition to leading Drake in scoring (15.6 ppg) and rebounds (8.5 rpg), he was tops in the Valley in defensive rebounds by 6.6 per game and second in blocks per game with 1.6 per outing. His 52 total blocks on the season helped him become Drake’s all-time leader in blocks and he was a part of a defensive rebounding effort that led the league. McGlynn was second in the Larry Bird Player of the Year voting.
McGlynn is joined on the first-team unit by Marcus Bartley of Southern Illinois, Clayton Custer of Loyola, Cameron Krutwig of Loyola and Wyatt Lohaus of UNI. Bartley and Custer, like McGlynn, were recipients of 2018-19 Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic all-district plaudits.
The criteria for the Missouri Valley Conference’s Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade-point average (4.0 scale). Nominees in grad school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.20 or better both as an undergrad AND in graduate school. Nominees must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at an institution and must have completed at least one calendar year at the institution. True freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletic transfers are not eligible. Graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution. A nominee must have played in 50 percent of his team’s games.
