BRISTOL, Tenn. – Conference Carolinas announced their Presidential Honor Roll Presented by Southern Recognition LLC for the spring semester and King University had 271 student-athletes named to the list. The Tornado baseball, women's soccer and softball teams each had more than 20 student-athletes honored to lead King.
Belmont Abbey College led the lead with 350 honorees while Limestone College had 329 as the only two schools with more than 300 honorees. King came in seventh with 271 student-athletes recognized.
The baseball team had 33 student-athletes honored while the women's soccer team followed with 22 and the softball team had 20 recognized. Nine other King teams had at least 10 student-athletes recognized, led by acrobatics & tumbling with 18 and cheerleading with 16. Men's soccer and women's wrestling had 15 each while men's and women's basketball as well as women's track & field and men's volleyball all had 11. The women's volleyball rounded out the group with 10.
The Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll is awarded after the fall and spring semesters. The Presidential Honor recognizes the scholastic achievements of Conference Carolinas student-athletes who achieve a grade-point average of 3.2 or higher on a 4.0 scale each semester.
All student-athletes - including underclassmen, transfers and those who play non-conference sponsored sports - are eligible for the recognition as long as they participated during the past semester.
