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<\/a>The Distinguished Scholar Athlete honor is given to student-athletes who made an All-MAC team, the Academic All-MAC team and maintained a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.5. Following each season, any student-athlete with a 3.20 GPA and participation in at least 50% of the contests is automatically named to the Academic All-MAC Team for each sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award.<\/p>\nThe 2020-21 MAC Distinguished Scholar Athletes – Toledo Honorees:<\/p>\n
Men’s Cross Country<\/strong> Football<\/strong> Men’s Basketball<\/strong> Women’s Swimming & Diving<\/strong> Women’s Track & Field<\/strong> \u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Petronela Simiuc (Liberal Studies, 3.720 GPA) \u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Stephanie Sherman (Bioengineering, 3.935 GPA) \u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Emily Vining (Marketing, 3.957 GPA) Baseball<\/strong> Softball<\/strong> Men’s Tennis<\/strong> Women’s Tennis<\/strong> The Distinguished Scholar Athlete honor is given to student-athletes who made an All-MAC team, the Academic All-MAC team and maintained a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":68676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,56,32,34,61,53,1,62,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68678,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68674\/revisions\/68678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Jacob Harris (Exercise Science, 3.743 GPA)
\nHarris earned first-team All-MAC honors after finishing in seventh place with a time of 24:25.4 at the 2020 MAC Men’s Cross Country Championships.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Bryce Harris (Master’s in School Counseling, 3.765 GPA)
\nHarris earned first-team All-MAC honors as a center on the Rockets’ football team in 2020.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Spencer Littleson (Graduate Student, Business Administration, 3.750 GPA)
\nLittleson earned second-team All-MAC honors as well as MAC All-Defensive Team honors as a guard on the Rockets’ basketball team in the 2020-21 season. Littleson is currently playing professional basketball in Belgium.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Kennedy Lovell (English, 4.00 GPA)
\nLovell earned All-MAC honors by placing fifth in the 200 freestyle at the 2021 MAC Championships with a personal best time of 1:48.70.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Rayna Horner (Social Work, 3.808 GPA)
\nHorner received All-MAC honors after placing second in the distance medley relay with a time of 11:38.18 at the 2021 Indoor MAC Championships.<\/p>\n
\nSimiuc qualified in the 1500m at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She also won the 800m and 1500m at the 2021 Outdoor MAC Championships.<\/p>\n
\nSherman was named second-team All-America in the 10,000m, taking 16th place at the NCAA Championships with a school record time of 33:25.31. She also finished second in the 5000m and 10,000m at the 2021 Outdoor MAC Championship.<\/p>\n
\nVining also placed second at the Indoor MAC Championships in the distance medley relay. In the outdoor season, Vining qualified for the NCAA Regionals in the 3000m steeplechase.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Chris Meyers (Finance, 3.64 GPA)
\nMeyers earned first-team All-MAC, third-team All-America and first-team All-Region honors, and was named the MAC Player of the Year in 2021. Meyers was drafted in the 13th round of the MLB Draft by the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Dayna Denner (Graduate – Business Administration, 3.810 GPA)
\nDenner was named the 2021 MAC Player of the Year, in addition to receiving NFCA All-Great Lakes region first-team and first-team All-MAC honors.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Thawin Suksathaporn (Mechanical Engineering, 3.53 GPA)
\nSuksathaporn was named second-team All-MAC, finishing with a 9-7 overall record in 2020-21 and earning the league’s Jack Vredevelt Sportsmanship Award.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022\u00a0 <\/strong>Sloane Teske (Adolescent and Young Adult Education, 3.52 GPA)
\nTeske was named second-team All-MAC, posting an overall record of 13-9 in 2020-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/a>