Caleb VanArragon of Valparaiso headlines the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete Team as he has been named the league's Scholar-Athlete of the Year.  It marks the fourth-straight year that VanArragon has earned the award.  He is also a four-time recipient of the league's Elite 17 Award.  VanArragon is joined on the First Team by eight additional student-athletes, announced by the league office today.

VanArragon owns a perfect 4.00 GPA toward his master’s in analytics and modeling after graduating undergrad with a 4.00 in biology and statistics and last week was also honored by the Valparaiso University Alumni Association (VUAA) with a 2024 VUAA Distinguished Student Award.  VanArragon is currently competed in the NCAA Regional in West Lafyette, Ind.  He entered this week with a program-record season scoring average of 69.35 and a program-record career scoring average of 71.22.

In addition to the nine first-team selections, seven student-athletes received second-team honors.  A total of 19 student-athletes were nominated and met the criteria for men’s golf scholar-athlete honors.

MVC Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year:  Caleb VanArragon, Valparaiso
 

FIRST TEAM		Yr.	GPA (Major)
Joe Bultman, Belmont		Gr.	3.91 Business Administration, 3.91 MBA
Edouard Cereto, Southern Illinois		So.	3.57 Business Analytics
Anthony Delisanti, Valparaiso		Jr.	3.91 Sport Management
Jack Dumas, Drake		Jr.	3.74 Data Analysis
Leon Heitz, Southern Illinois		Jr.	3.82 Management
Dain Richie, Southern Illinois		Jr.	3.85 Economics
Michael Senn, Belmont		Jr.	3.88 Finance
Caleb VanArragon, Valparaiso		5th	4.00 Biology/Statistics, 4.00 analytics & modeling
Parker Wisdom, Illinois State		Sr.	3.55 Exercise Science: Allied Health
SECOND TEAM
Hugo Archer, Southern Illinois		Sr.	3.67 Management
Mason Bonn, Valparaiso		Sr.	3.63 Mechanical Engineering
Reeve Felner, Belmont		Sr.	3.55 Marketing
Griffin Parker, UNI		R-Sr.	3.69 Accounting & Real Estate
Daniil Romashkin, Evansville		So.	3.85 Business
Eric Schuessler, Missouri State		Sr.	3.58 Business
John Stillman, Bradley		Sr.	4.0, Political Science, 4.0 MBA

 

The criteria for the MVC scholar-athlete team parallels the CSC (College Sports Communicators) standards for its Academic All-America® program.  Nominated student-athletes must have participated in the MVC championship or 50 percent of the team's tournaments in season -- with legitimate athletic credentials -- and at least a 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (4.0 scale). Nominees in grad school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or better both as an undergrad AND in graduate school.