ST. LOUIS – Belmont’s Brodey Heaton has been selected as the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year and headlines a group of 25 student-athletes named to the league’s first and second scholar-athlete teams.
 
Valparaiso’s Alex Ryan earned scholar-athlete honors for the third-straight year while Heaton and two-time Elite 17 honoree, Donovan Schultz from Evansville, landed a spot on the first team for the second-consecutive year.
 
Ten of the 14 first-team spots were filled by seniors or graduate students. All 11 members of the second team are first-time selections to a MVC scholar-athlete team.
 
The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team nominations parallels the College Sports Communicators (CSC) standards for Academic All-America selections. Nominees must be starters or important reserves, with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average as both an undergraduate and graduate student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don’t have an established GPA. Student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution.
 
The Valley's scholar-athlete team is voted on by the league's baseball sports information directors after the championship.