Horizon League Release / Full List of Recipients

INDIANAPOLIS (1/15/2015) -- Eighty student-athletes from the University of Detroit Mercy received 2014 Fall Horizon League Academic Honor Roll distinction after the academic accolade was announced by the league office on Thursday. Detroit's 80 were part of 808 student-athletes that received the Horizon League honors overall across nine league institutions and 19 league-sponsored sports.
 
For candidates to meet the honor roll criteria, student-athletes must have participated in one of the league's 19 sports during the most recent season, have completed three semesters (or four quarters, where applicable) as a full-time student and have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.20.
 
In all, four Detroit squads were either first or tied for first with the number of honorees in their respective sports.
 
Both the men's and women's soccer teams had 14 student-athletes make the league fall honor roll. The Titan men's soccer team tied Belmont for the most recipients by a squad in the conference.
 
Seven Titan women's basketball team members earned honor roll recognition, which was the most of any Horizon League team. The softball squad - with 10 recipients - and women's golf with its six honorees also ranked first in their respective sports.
 
The women's track and field/cross country team had 12 honorees, while the men's track and field/cross country team had nine student-athletes earn the academic honor. Men's golf had four recipients, three women's tennis players garnered honors and one men's tennis student-athlete was named to the honor roll.
 
The award does not include student athletes from four varsity sports that Detroit has in men's lacrosse (MAAC), women's lacrosse (Atlantic Sun), and men's and women's fencing (Midwest Fencing Conference).
 
The 808 recipients were up from last year, when the Horizon League honored 781 student-athletes during the fall of 2013. Women's soccer had the most recipients in the league with 108, while women's track and field/cross country had 100 participants earn the honors.