ST. LOUIS – Indiana State's Rhagen Smith has been named to the 2017 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete Second Team, as voted by the conference's women's basketball contacts.
 
Smith carries a 3.91 GPA in nursing, and was also named to the 2016 Scholar-Athlete Team.
 
The criteria for the scholar-athlete team balloting parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves, have played at least 75-percent of a team's games, and must carry at least a 3.20 GPA (on a 4.0 scale).
   
Student-athletes must also have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution (true and redshirt freshmen are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at the institution.
 
A total of 30 Valley student-athletes met the nomination criteria for scholar-athlete honors in 2017.
 
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