A day after 151 Western Kentucky student-athletes were honored for their achievements in the classroom, 51 earned additional academic accolades by earning spots on the 2018-19 Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal list.

The 51 WKU student-athletes are a part of 771 student-athletes across C-USA who received the honor for achieving a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher. With 13 total academic medalists, the women’s soccer team led all WKU programs while women’s track and field had six, softball had five, and baseball, football, volleyball and women’s golf each had four.

Over the past calendar year, 86 WKU student-athletes received their diploma from the university. The cumulative GPA of the 86 graduates was 3.21.