BOURBONNAIS, IL (03/24/2016)-- Maggie Schmidt of Eldridge, Iowa (52748) has been honored for academic achievement as a scholar-athlete at Olivet Nazarene University for the 2015-2016 winter sports season. She is a junior majoring in engineering and was honored as follows:
CCAC All-Academic Team for women's basketball
A total of 21 Olivet Nazarene University students in 2015-2016 winter sports were named recently as scholar-athletes by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC). The Tiger men's basketball players honored as scholar-athletes for the 2015-2016 season represent the largest group recognized for academic achievement in a single season in that program's history.
Daktronics-NAIA scholar-athletes are juniors and seniors with a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale. To make the CCAC All-Academic Team, student-athletes must have a minimum 3.25 grade point average with at least 30 semester hours completed.
Information on Olivet academics and athletic programs is available through the Office of Admissions at www.olivet.edu/Admissions or 800-648-1463.
Olivet Nazarene University is an accredited Christian, liberal arts university offering more than 120 areas of undergraduate and graduate study, including the Doctor of Education in ethical leadership. Olivet's 250-acre park-like main campus is in Bourbonnais, Illinois, 50 miles south of Chicago. Additional sites are in Rolling Meadows and Oak Brook, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Grand Rapids and Grand Ledge, Michigan; Hong Kong; and more than 100 School of Graduate and Continuing Studies learning locations throughout Chicagoland and the Midwest. From Oxford to Tokyo, hundreds of Olivet students also experience the global classroom each year through study abroad opportunities, internships and worldwide mission trips.
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