ST. LOUIS – Indiana State libero Melina Tedrow was named to the Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second-consecutive season while Madeline Williams picked-up Honorable Mention honors, the Valley announced Tuesday morning.
 
The team is selected by a vote of the league's volleyball sports information directors, with approval from head coaches.
 
Thirty-five student-athletes were nominated for the MVC's scholar-athlete team. The criterion for the honor parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA (on a 4.00 scale). Also, students must have participated in at least 75-percent of the regular-season matches. Student- athletes must have reached sophomore status in both athletic and academic standing at their institution (true freshmen and redshirt freshmen were not eligible).
 
Tedrow became the first Sycamore to earn consecutive first team honors since Bree Spangler was selected from 2014-2016. The junior owns a 3.71 GPA in finance and is currently eighth in school history in career digs, tallying 1159 digs. For the spring 2021 season, Tedrow has recorded 371 digs for an average of 5.12 digs per set, both of which lead the Sycamores.
 
With her honorable mention honor, Williams earned the first scholar-athlete award of her career at Indiana State. Williams currently boasts a 3.61 GPA in marketing and leads the Sycamores with 56 total blocks throughout the season and she also boasts the second-best mark in total kills (171) and service aces (21).
 
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