COLBY, Kan. – The Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference has announced its 2023-2024 KJCCC All-Academic Award winners with 1,561 student-athletes across 21 conference schools earning the award after finishing the academic year with at least a 3.5 overall GPA.

Among the 1,561 student-athletes to earn the award, five different sports (baseball, softball, volleyball, women’s soccer, and men’s soccer) had at least 100 student-athletes earning the award across the conference with baseball leading all sports with 358 student-athletes being honored. Four different schools (Barton, Coffeyville, Dodge City, and Cowley) each had at least 100 student-athletes from their school recognized with the award while 10 of the 21 schools had at least 80 student-athletes who qualified for the award. Barton, which boasts a conference-high 22 sports in their athletic department, finished with a conference-high 146 student-athletes being honored with Coffeyville (107) and Dodge City (106) finishing with the second and third-most honorees.

Sport-by-sport GPAs saw women’s golf (four schools) combine for an overall GPA of 3.53 to finish the year with the highest sport GPA in the conference among the 25 sports offered by the KJCCC with women’s swimming (Barton) finishing second with a 3.42 GPA. Of the 25 sports that are sponsored by conference schools, 16 finished with GPAs above 3.0.

In the school-by-school GPA standings, Johnson County finished the year with the highest athletic department GPA after finishing with a 3.36 department GPA with Colby Community College finishing second with a 3.25 department GPA. Rounding out the top five of the school athletic department GPAs were Barton (3.24), Kansas City Kansas (3.23), and Cowley (3.15).