ST. LOUIS – Eight members of the University of Evansville women's swimming and diving team were named to the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team.
 
Scholar-Athlete honors require athletes to have completed at least one year and maintain either a 3.2 grade-point average and obtain all-conference honors, achieve a 3.5 grade-point average and finish top-16 in an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 grade-point average and participate in the MVC championship.
 
The Missouri Valley Conference had an outstanding number of student-athletes on the scholar-athlete team this season for swimming and diving, topping out at 59. In the 2014-15 season, 16 of these scholar-athletes had an impressive GPA at or above a 3.8 and 6 of those had a 4.0 GPA. For the 2014-15 season, Illinois State holds the most spots on the scholar-athlete team with 14 student-athletes on the team and a remarkable 4 student-athletes holding a 4.0 GPA.
 
Evansville's eight representatives included:

Abby Smith	Evansville	3.94		Chemistry
Abby Yenzer	Evansville	3.89		Physical Therapy
Michelle Tipton	Evansville	3.68		Physical Therapy
Mackenzie Harris Samantha Montgomery	Evansville Evansville	3.70 3.61		Nursing Environmental Administration
Maja Magnusson	Evansville	3.59		Global Business
Mackenzie Powell	Evansville	3.56		Biology
Charlotte Lechner	Evansville	3.53		Exercise Science/Physical Therapy