ANNVILLE, Pa. - On Friday morning, the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) announced the MAC Academic Honor Roll for the 2021-22 Winter and 2022 Spring seasons. Among the 3,542 student-athletes honored on Friday, Messiah student-athletes comprised 355 names on that list. The Winter MAC Honor Roll celebrates student-athletes who competed in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's swimming, and wrestling. While the Spring MAC Honor Roll honors students who competed in baseball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's outdoor track and field, softball, men's and women's tennis, and men's volleyball.
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Add in Messiah's 118 honors from the fall and the Falcons picked up a total of 473 honor roll accolades during the 2021-22 academic year.
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Of the 18 MAC schools, Messiah had the second-most student-athletes honored in both the winter and spring, finishing only behind the Stevens Institute of Technology Ducks (185 winter honors and 223 spring honors).
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In total, Messiah earned 84 perfect 4.0 grade point averages with 37 winter student-athletes getting straight A's and 47 spring student-athletes getting 4.0's.
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Across the sports honored on Friday, Messiah's women's track and field team earned the most honorees with 47 included on the MAC Honor Roll in both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
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Click here to see the complete list of the student-athletes named to the 2021-22 MAC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll or
click here for the 2022 MAC Spring Academic Honor Roll.
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About the MAC Honor Roll
The winter and spring academic honor rolls are comprised of student-athletes who compete in a varsity level winter and/or spring sport and registered a spring term/semester GPA of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) or higher. Since 2020-21, the MAC has allowed its institutions to name all of their NCAA-competing sports to the MAC Academic Honor Roll even if the MAC does not sponsor the sport. To date, the additional sports recognized are beach volleyball (spring), men's and women's fencing (winter) and women's wrestling (winter).
