EVANSVILLE, Ind. --Ten University of Evansville women’s swimming and diving team members were named to the Missouri Valley Conference 2011 Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete Team, as announced by the league office today.

Evansville and Illinois State led the Valley with ten student-athlete representatives on the team

Christina Schmidgall, Valerie Jones, Annie Shackelford, Jill Enge, Alex Spata, Phoebe Hodina, Merri Schmitt, Alex Howard, Jennifer Childers and Sadie Wells were named to the 41-member team. Schmidgall was one of five student-athletes with a perfect 4.0 GPA

Scholar-Athlete honors require athletes to have completed at least one year and maintain either a 3.2 GPA and obtain all-conference honors, achieve a 3.5 GPA and finish top sixteen in an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 GPA and participate in the MVC championship.