BURNSVILLE, Minn. – The University of Sioux Falls had 13 student-athletes earn the NSIC Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award for the 2014-15 school year. Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Commissioner Erin Lind announced the award winners in a release on Wednesday afternoon.

The award recipients must maintain a grade point average of 3.75 or higher, be exhausting their eligibility, and are on track to graduate. A total of 111 student-athletes from the NSIC's 16 institutions will receive the award. Sioux Falls' 13 honorees were the second most of any institution in the conference.

"The Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award is one of the highest honors a student-athlete in the NSIC can achieve,” Lind said. “To earn this prestigious honor, one must show a commitment and dedication to both academics and athletics, characteristics which Dr. Myles Brand emphasized. I am extremely proud of all these student-athletes for their devotion to their universities, the NSIC and to their personal academic and athletic goals. I have no doubt these student-athletes will continue to achieve success in life well beyond the classroom and the competition venues.”

Listed below are the award winners for the University of Sioux Falls.