{"id":234597,"date":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234597\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:54:09","slug":"17-m-state-student-athletes-earn-mcac-academic-excellence-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/234597\/","title":{"rendered":"17 M State student-athletes earn MCAC Academic Excellence honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Body<\/p>\n<p>At Minnesota State Community and Technical College, excellence on the court and the field is matched by achievement in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota College Athletic Conference (MCAC) recognized 17 M State student-athletes for outstanding academic achievement during the fall 2025 semester. These individual honors celebrate students who successfully balance full-time coursework with competition in NJCAA-sponsored collegiate athletics, demonstrating exceptional commitment, discipline and time management.<\/p>\n<p>Among those honored are four Lady Spartans Volleyball team members:<\/p>\n<p>Katie HessKeela JohnsonKaitlyn OlsonSophie Sanstead<\/p>\n<p>The Spartans Football team also made a strong academic showing, with 13 student-athletes earning MCAC Academic Excellence recognition:<\/p>\n<p>Jack BurdickAmir Downs (All Division, All Region, Second Team All-American)Tremayne GrahamJ\u2019Lan High (All Division, All Region)Jame HightowerJaylen IgouParker RandFred RushingAntonio Sanchez\u00a0Larry SmithDemeutrese Thomas\u00a0Mark VahColton Warrington (MCAC Sportsmanship Award recipient)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese recognitions highlight what it truly means to be a student-athlete at M State,\u201d said Steve King, co-athletic coordinator. \u201cOur students are committed to excellence in everything they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For full team rosters and hometowns, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.minnesota.edu\/landing\/index\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">M State Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body At Minnesota State Community and Technical College, excellence on the court and the field is matched by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-234597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}