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The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association announced its academic awards for the 2024 football season.

Three hundred and 99 football players from all ten schools were named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll in the 2024 season. There were also 34 players named Scholar-Athletes and 24 who earned the MIAA Academic Excellence Award.

The league’s prestigious Academic Excellence Award was awarded to just 24 players in the 2024 football 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 34 student-athletes who excelled in the classroom and on the field. 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.

Three hundred and 99 football 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.

Only seven players were honored with all three of the Association's postseason academic awards. The seven student-athletes to have extraordinary success in the classroom and in competition were Central Missouri's Gabe Clark, Fort Hays State's Josh Shaw, Missouri Western's Cody Watson, Northwest Missouri's Andrew Dumas, Jake Fisher and Jake Winslow, and Pittsburg State's Chad Dodson Jr.

These academic awards do not include true freshmen or first-year transfers who played on MIAA football 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.