KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced its academic awards for the 2024 women's soccer season. One hundred and eighty-four student-athletes from all 13 MIAA women's soccer playing institutions were honored by the Association for their work in the classroom. 
 
One hundred and eighty-four women's soccer players were named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll in the 2024 season. There were also 24 players named Scholar-Athletes and 23 who earned the MIAA Academic Excellence Award. To view the list of all 184 women's soccer student-athletes who received academic honors in the 2024 season, click here. 

The league’s prestigious Academic Excellence Award was awarded to 23 women's soccer student-athletes in the 2024 season. An Academic Excellence Award recipient must have a grade point average used by the institution for NCAA academic certification of at least 4.00 at the certifying member institution. The honoree also must have at least two terms of grades reported at the certifying member institution, excluding summer terms.

The Scholar-Athlete Award distinction went to just 24 student-athletes who excelled in the classroom and on the pitch. In the classroom, an MIAA Scholar-Athlete is an individual who has a grade point average used by the institution for purposes of NCAA academic certification of 3.50 or better at the certifying member institution. They must also have at least two terms of attendance at the certifying member institution, excluding summer terms. On the field, the student-athlete must receive All-MIAA honors to fully achieve Scholar-Athlete status.

One hundred and eighty-four women's soccer players were named to the league's Academic Honor Roll. To be recognized on the league’s Academic Honor Roll, student-athletes must have a grade point average used by the institution for purposes of NCAA academic certification of 3.00 or above at the certifying member institution. They also need at least two terms of attendance at the certifying member institution, excluding summer terms.
 
There were only five MIAA women's soccer players to be honored with all three of the Association's postseason academic awards. The five student-athletes to have extraordinary success in the classroom and in competition were Missouri Western's junior defender Brookelyn Buttolph and senior goalkeeper Keeley Kroonenberg, Newman's junior center-mid Maylani Birckichler, and Northwest Missouri's sophomore forwards Ekaterina Theoharidis and Makenna West. 
 
These academic awards do not include true freshmen or first-year transfers who played on MIAA soccer teams in the 2024 season. The Association will release its MIAA Newcomer Academic Awards from the 2024-25 academic year in late June, following the completion of those athletes' first two full terms at an MIAA institution.