The UIS athletic department placed 32 student-athletes on the 2025-26 Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award list, which was released Thursday morning.
The Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award honors student-athletes who have graduated during the academic year or exhausted their eligibility and have achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 3.50 or higher while competing in the GLVC for at least two years.
UIS student-athletes represented 14 programs on this year's list, highlighting continued academic success across Prairie Stars athletics.
Baseball and women's soccer led UIS with seven honorees each.
GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award Honorees
Baseball (7): Corey Boyette,
Drew Ezard,
Quinn Hoftender,
Clayton Johnson,
Lucas Pajeau,
Dillon Smail,
Chris Suchoski
Men's Basketball (2):
Jordan Rice,
Colin Schuler
Men's Cross Country/Track & Field (1): Isaac Cortes
Women's Cross Country/Track & Field (1): Madelyn Miller-Ross
Men's Golf (2): Daniel Edwards,
Charles Prins
Women's Golf (2): Elaine Grant,
Ira Joshi
Men's Soccer (1): Ihnat Striletskyi
Women's Soccer (7): Dani Auble,
Alexa Blake,
McKenna Gahagan,
Greta Kohnz,
Makenna Miller,
Claire Ruter,
Taytum Scarborough
Softball (4): Rosie Bartletti,
Olivia DeLuca,
Koral Keehner,
Jaden Watts
Men's Tennis (2): Pablo Herrera,
Lin En Tan
Women's Tennis (1): Cristina Mendoza Romero
Volleyball (2): Bella Hodges,
Erica Sledge
Two UIS seniors or graduate students who exhausted their eligibility in 2025-26 previously earned the Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award as members of their senior class in 2024-25. Women's soccer student-athlete
Anna Schurz and baseball student-athlete
Adam Wibbenmeyer each received the honor last year.
The Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award is the only career-based honor presented during GLVC Academic Awards Week, honoring student-athletes for sustained academic success over the course of their collegiate careers.
GLVC Academic Awards Week concludes Friday with the announcement of Scholar-Athletes of the Year for each conference-sponsored winter and spring sport.
