ST. LOUIS – The Missouri State women's and diving team landed 15 swimmers on the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete team following the Bears' first-place finish at the MVC Conference Championships, announced by the league Tuesday.
 
Sarah Allegri, Haley Allen, Monica Blake, Brooke Dreiling and Payton Smith represented the Missouri State freshman class, while Hope Ernhart, Brianna McCullough, Josie Pearson and Loretta Stelnicki were the four sophomores to make the squad.
 
Juniors Hanna Flanagan and Sydney Zupan were the two, third-year athletes to make the team. Veterans Briana Horozewski, Shawna Elsey, Lauren Pavel and Alexis Skiniotes were the four seniors to make the cut.
 
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 in the top-16 of an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 GPA and participate in the MVC Championship. Blake, Elsey, Smith and Zupan were four of the league's 16 student-athletes to carry a 4.0 GPA, while the rest of the Bears carried a 3.32 GPA or better.
 

• Sarah Allegri, Freshman, 3.54 GPA, Undeclared
• Haley Allen, Freshman, 3.57 GPA, Marketing/Management
• Monica Blake, Freshman, 4.00 GPA, Entertainment Management
• Brooke Dreiling, Freshman, 3.63 GPA, Exercise & Movement Science
• Shawna Elsey, Senior, 4.00 GPA, Marketing
• Hope Ernhart, Sophomore, 3.83 GPA, Biology
• Hanna Flanagan, Junior, 3.77 GPA, Journalism
• Briana Horozewski, Senior, 3.32 GPA, Computer Information Systems
• Brianna McCullough, Sophomore, 3.59 GPA, Undeclared
• Lauren Pavel, Senior, 3.56 GPA, Dietetics
• Josie Pearson, Sophomore, 3.59 GPA, Undeclared
• Alexis Skiniotes, Senior, 3.67 GPA, Risk Management & Insurance
• Payton Smith, Freshman, 4.00 GPA, Computer Animation
• Loretta Stelnicki, Sophomore, 3.69 GPA, Management
• Sydney Zupan, Junior, 4.00 GPA, Cell & Molecular Biology

 
For more information on the Missouri State women's swimming and diving team, visit www.missouristatebears.com or Twitter (@MoStateSwim).