ST. LOUIS – Following the capture of its 14^th conference title, the Missouri State women's swimming and diving team landed 11 student-athletes on the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Team, announced by the league Wednesday.
 
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 (including non-scorers).
 
Senior captain Sydney Zupan led the way for the Bears with a perfect 4.0 GPA in cell and molecular biology, which also earned her the league's Elite 17 Award after the conclusion of the 2018 MVC Swimming and Diving Championship. She was one of eight swimmers from around the league to carry a spotless GPA. Hanna Flanagan rounded out representation for the Bears' senior class.
 
Loretta Stelnicki, Brianna McCullough and Josie Pearson were the three juniors to make the scholar-athlete team while Sarah Allegri, Haley Allen, Monica Blake, Brooke Dreiling, Vikte Labanauskaite and Payton Smith represented the sophomore class.  
 

• Sarah Allegri – So., 3.54 GPA
• Haley Allen – So., 3.65 GPA
• Monica Blake – So., 3.97 GPA
• Brooke Dreiling – So., 3.78 GPA
• Hanna Flanagan – Sr., 3.76 GPA
• Vikte Labanauskaite – So., 3.27 GPA
• Brianna McCullough – Jr., 3.69 GPA
• Josie Pearson – Jr., 3.55 GPA
• Payton Smith – So., 3.90 GPA
• Loretta Stelnicki – Jr., 3.76 GPA
• Sydney Zupan – Sr., 4.0 GPA

 
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