2020 Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete (
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The Missouri Valley Conference announces the 2020 Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team following the completion of the 2019-20 conference season, and Northern Iowa's Katie Taylor highlights the team as the Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Scholar-Athlete of the Year award was introduced across Valley sports prior to the 2019-20 season.
Scholar-Athlete honors require athletes to have completed at least one year and maintain either a 3.3 grade-point average and obtain all-conference honors, achieve a 3.5 grade-point average and finish top-16 in an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 grade-point average and participate in the MVC championship (including non-scorers).
The Missouri Valley Conference had an outstanding 82 student-athletes on the scholar-athlete team this season for swimming and diving. In the 2019-20 season, 10 of these scholar-athletes had a perfect 4.00 GPA. During the 2020 Swimming and Diving Championships, the league recognized Southern Illinois' Sierra Forbord as the Elite 17 Award winner.
| Name |
GPA |
School |
| Allee Armitage |
4.0 |
Missouri State |
| Sierra Forbord |
4.0 |
Southern Illinois |
| Julie Kolar |
4.0 |
Illinois State |
| Anika Lillegard-Bouton |
4.0 |
Northern Iowa |
| Cassidy Lounsbury |
4.0 |
Southern Illinois |
| Avery McLean |
4.0 |
Little Rock |
| Jacqueline Rose |
4.0 |
Southern Illinois |
| Sydney Schmidt |
4.0 |
Northern Iowa |
| Kailyn Stone |
4.0 |
Southern Illinois |
| Lea Zengerling |
4.0 |
Little Rock |
| Emma Hennessy |
3.98 |
Evansville |
| Mykenzie Kostka |
3.97 |
Indiana State |
| Katherine Taylor |
3.97 |
Northern Iowa |
| Emily Vasquez |
3.97 |
Evansville |
| Taylor Hogan |
3.96 |
Northern Iowa |
| Samantha Parsons |
3.96 |
Southern Illinois |
| Ashleigh Houlette |
3.95 |
Northern Iowa |
| Rachelle Houlette |
3.95 |
Northern Iowa |
| Laura Carver |
3.94 |
Southern Illinois |
| Palmer Ristroph |
3.94 |
Little Rock |
| Carolyn Ann Godwin |
3.93 |
Little Rock |
| Kendall Hansen |
3.93 |
Indiana State |
| Katelyn White |
3.93 |
Little Rock |
| Rita Naude |
3.91 |
Southern Illinois |
| Jenna Lynn Willer |
3.91 |
Northern Iowa |
| Haley Rivera |
3.88 |
Illinois State |
| Alyssa Vonder Haar |
3.88 |
Evansville |
| Juliana Carvalho |
3.87 |
Southern Illinois |
| Payton Parman |
3.87 |
Southern Illinois |
| Charis Won |
3.87 |
Little Rock |
| Jessie Baldwin |
3.85 |
Little Rock |
| Grace Considine |
3.85 |
Northern Iowa |
| Jensen Keck |
3.85 |
Illinois State |
| Kerry Tepe |
3.85 |
Indiana State |
| Adriana Avila |
3.84 |
Missouri State |
| Kylie Engstrom |
3.84 |
Northern Iowa |
| Allie Engstrom |
3.83 |
Indiana State |
| Kassidy Lovig |
3.83 |
Northern Iowa |
| Chiara Robinson |
3.83 |
Valparaiso |
| Anna Penning |
3.82 |
Northern Iowa |
| Miranda Smith |
3.82 |
Missouri State |
| Payton Hall |
3.80 |
Northern Iowa |
| Megan Schade |
3.80 |
Indiana State |
| Ashleigh Sinks |
3.80 |
Indiana State |
| Alex Thorson |
3.80 |
Missouri State |
| Jordan McCullough |
3.79 |
Northern Iowa |
| Cassandra Summers |
3.79 |
Northern Iowa |
| Ashley Yarbrough |
3.79 |
Missouri State |
| Madeline Webb |
3.78 |
Northern Iowa |
| Amanda Dreyer |
3.77 |
Little Rock |
| Ashton Adams |
3.75 |
Evansville |
| Rachel Studer |
3.75 |
Northern Iowa |
| Baobao Ji |
3.74 |
Southern Illinois |
| Cierra Campbell |
3.73 |
Indiana State |
| Beibei Ji |
3.73 |
Southern Illinois |
| Caroline Lecoeur |
3.73 |
Illinois State |
| Alaina Sylvester |
3.73 |
Evansville |
| Madison Brown |
3.71 |
Missouri State |
| Sarah Allegri |
3.70 |
Missouri State |
| Sarah Kempf |
3.69 |
Evansville |
| Elisabeth Peskin |
3.69 |
Indiana State |
| Anna Maria Nasiou |
3.68 |
Indiana State |
| Alex Malmborg |
3.66 |
Indiana State |
| Eden Girloanta |
3.65 |
Southern Illinois |
| Madeleine Cieszynski |
3.64 |
Southern Illinois |
| Abigail Young |
3.61 |
Southern Illinois |
| Haley Allen |
3.60 |
Missouri State |
| Keara Shelton |
3.60 |
Indiana State |
| Deven Speed |
3.58 |
Southern Illinois |
| Katie Tillotson |
3.55 |
Illinois State |
| Emily Webb |
3.55 |
Indiana State |
| Natalie Gerard |
3.52 |
Evansville |
| Morgan Rosser |
3.52 |
Illinois State |
| Marlene Pavlu Lewin |
3.51 |
Indiana State |
| Erica Martins |
3.50 |
Valparaiso |
| Sierra Thain |
3.50 |
Little Rock |
| Anna Miller |
3.48 |
Missouri State |
| Sarah Walpole |
3.41 |
Northern Iowa |
| Sage Moore |
3.39 |
Evansville |
| Dayana Popa |
3.39 |
Missouri State |
| Kierston Farley-Sepe |
3.37 |
Illinois State |
| Sydney Radloff |
3.35 |
Missouri State |
| Sonsoles Aguayo |
3.34 |
Evansville |