Justice Neufeld receives multiple OVC awards

LITTLE ROCK, AR (10/13/2023) — Justice Neufeld of Mena, Arkansas, had a trio of achieve-ments at the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC).

First of all, Neufeld is a member of the UA Little Rock Men’s Cross Country Team that received the Ohio Valley Conference Team Academic Achievement Award.

“I am excited to add the Academic Team Award to the long list of accomplishments from this group of men,” said Director of Track & Field and Cross Country J.P. Behnke. “This is a great group of guys who are just as committed to their academic success as they are their track and cross-country success.”

The OVC Team Academic Achievement Award is presented annually in each OVC-sponsored sport to the member institutions’ team with the greatest percentage of its eligible student-athletes who achieved a 3.25 grade point average or higher. The Trojans boasted a 3.63 cumulative team grade point average.

Neufeld is also one of nearly 125 student-athletes who have been named to the 2022-23 OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

To be listed, recipients must have achieved at least a 3.25 grade point average, have been eligible and on the team throughout the competitive season in their chosen sport, and used a season of competition.

Women’s Track and Field led the Lit- tle Rock teams with 27 honorees, while the baseball team had 23 recipients. The Trojans had 19 student-athletes with multiple sport honors.

Finally, Neufeld is one of more than 20 UA Little Rock student-athletes who have been awarded the 2022-23 Academic Medal of Honor from the OVC for achieving a 4.0 GPA for the academic year.

“I am again very proud of our student-athletes and the importance they place on their work in the classroom,” said Director of Athletics George Lee. “They continue to be outstanding examples of what it truly means to be a student-athlete and represent Little Rock Athletics in a positive light. I am also thankful to our academic support team and coaching staffs for their hard work and emphasis in setting our student-athletes up for success.”

The OVC Academic Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athletes who achieve the highest grade point average in a Ohio Valley Conference-sponsored sport. UA Little Rock was represented in 10 sports with four athletes receiving the honor in multiple sports. Soccer had the most student-athlete honorees with seven.

With about 9,000 students and 100 programs, UA Little Rock offers learning, research, service, social and career opportunities that can only be found at a metropolitan university located in Arkansas’s capital city.