Molly Kroeger Named Missouri Valley Conference Ladies’s Swimming and Diving Scholar Athlete of the Year

CHICAGO – The Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) launched its 2025-2026 Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team on Thursday. 11 Flames had been named among the many recipients, with junior Molly Kroeger being named the Women’s MVC Scholar Athlete of the Year. 
 
“I’m incredibly proud of Molly for being named the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year,” head coach Ashley Dell mentioned. “Maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA in biomedical engineering while competing at such a high level in the pool is an extraordinary accomplishment and speaks to her discipline, work ethic and commitment to excellence. She represents everything we hope for in a student-athlete, and this recognition is incredibly well deserved.”
 
A biomedical engineering main with a 4.0 GPA, Kroeger continues to epitomize the time period student-athlete, being spectacular each out and in of the pool. This season she has received the MVC Elite 18 Award and earned All-MVC First Team within the 500 freestyle occasion. Kroeger was additionally named to the NACDA Allstate Good Works Winter Team, attributable to her work locally.
 
Kroeger was joined by 10 of her teammates to be named to the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team. Georgina Bell, Bruno Carrillo, Ruhee Chetan, Maggie Delaney, William Dvorak, Drew Millette, Kerry-Leigh Morrison, Will Ridley, Patton Shaar and Sophie Stefanac had been all acknowledged for his or her work within the classroom.
 
To qualify for the MVC’s Scholar Athlete Team, an athlete have to be a sophomore academically and athletically whereas assembly one of many following standards: a 3.5 cumulative GPA and will need to have competed in 4 meets OR positioned within the high 8 in a person occasion on the MVC Championship OR on a high 3 relay staff on the MVC Championship.
 
This is the second consecutive yr a Flame has received the MVC’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in Swimming and Diving, with graduate Liam Davis profitable the award a season in the past.
 
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