Martin Named MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year; 12 Beacons Honored

Valpo males’s swimming senior Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year for his achievements within the pool and within the classroom, the primary athlete in program historical past to earn a convention’s highest tutorial honor. 12 Beacons in all have been acknowledged on Thursday because the MVC introduced its Scholar-Athlete Teams.
 
Martin owns a 3.97 cumulative GPA as a mechanical engineering main. A two-time member of the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team, he obtained the MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award final yr. Martin can be a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree and has obtained Valpo Presidential Academic Honors.
 
In the pool, Martin is wrapping up a distinguished profession this week on the National Invitational Championship as a part of the Beacons’ 800 free relay which smashed this system document on the MVC Championships. He holds this system document individually within the 200 fly and ranks among the many top-10 in program historical past in 5 different particular person occasions, together with 4 different placements inside the top-five. In relay motion, Martin swam the anchor leg on 4 of Valpo’s 5 record-setting relays.
 
Below are Valpo’s six males’s and 6 ladies’s honorees on the MVC Scholar-Athlete Teams. Nominees will need to have a 3.50 GPA and have to be a sophomore each academically and athletically. In competitors, they will need to have competed in at the least 4 meets or positioned within the top-eight of a person occasion or be a part of a top-three relay on the MVC Championships. Each workforce could have a most of six honorees.
 
Valpo MVC Scholar-Athlete Team Honorees
Ricky Helmboldt                 3.95        Integrated Business & Engineering
Timothy Mai                        3.51        Mechanical Engineering
Anthony Martin                   3.97        Mechanical Engineering
Braden McCormick            3.67        Marketing
Asa Sadowsky                     3.76        Meteorology
Will Schenk                          3.72        Finance
Roxanne Adams                  3.97        Biology
Kailyn Benoit                       4.00        Health Sciences
Natalie Eaton                       3.88        Communication

Maria Jose Suarez               3.91        Integrated Business & Engineering
Sophie Schoch                     3.86        Mechanical Engineering
Mikaiya Stampf                  4.00        Mechanical Engineering