CLEVELAND \u2013 Seven Missouri State men\u2019s swimmers were voted by faculty athletic representatives as Distinguished Scholar Athletes, representing the \u2018best of the best\u2019 from the eight Mid-American Conference winter sports, the league announced Friday, April 15.<\/p>\n
The Distinguished Scholar Athlete is a second-year award given to students who have excelled in athletics and academics. Following each season from the winter sports schedule, any student with a 3.20 GPA and participation in at least 50 percent of the contests was automatically named to the previously announced Academic All-MAC Team from each sport. Also, first-year students, junior college and graduate school transfers in their first year of residence were not eligible for the award.<\/p>\n
MSU\u2019s Canaan Campbell, Kacper Cwiek, Miguel Davila, Christopher Heye, Uvis Kalnins, Jack Snow<\/strong>, and Brandon Weissman<\/strong> were among a total of 202 student-athletes from the eight winter sports recognized by the conference during the 2015-16 academic season. MSU had the second highest amount of student-athletes among the seven schools which participate in men\u2019s swimming selected, with 34 men\u2019s swimmers honored as Distinguished Scholar Athletes.<\/p>\n Davila, Kalnins, Snow and Weissman were honored as Distinguished Scholar Athletes by the MAC last season and are two-time selections.<\/p>\n Seniors Davila and Kalnins were both All-MAC First Team performers, with Davila earning a conference title in the 1650-yard freestyle and Kalnins finishing with gold medals in the 200 IM and 400 IM. Snow and Weissman were each honored for a second time by the MAC after seasons in which both appeared multiple times on MSU\u2019s top-five times list.<\/p>\n Sophomores Campbell, Cwiek and Heye were named as Distinguished Scholar Athletes for the first time in their first year of eligibility. Cwiek and Heye both were named to the All-MAC Second team and Campbell earned six of 10 personal-best event times this season.<\/p>\n The MAC will announce the Distinguished Scholar Athletes from the eight spring sports sponsored by the conference later this spring.<\/p>\n Press release courtesy of Missouri State University Athletics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CLEVELAND \u2013 Seven Missouri State men\u2019s swimmers were voted by faculty athletic representatives as Distinguished Scholar Athletes, representing the \u2018best of the best\u2019 from the eight Mid-American Conference winter sports,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":111991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n