The Missouri Valley Conference announces the 2017 Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete Team following the completion of the 2016-2017 conference season.
Scholar-Athlete honors require athletes to have completed at least one year and maintain either a 3.2 grade-point average and obtain all-conference honors, achieve a 3.5 grade-point average and finish top-16 in an individual event at the conference championships, or maintain a 3.8 grade-point average and participate in the MVC championship.
The Missouri Valley Conference had an outstanding number of student-athletes on the scholar-athlete team this season for swimming and diving, topping out at 80. In the 2016-17 season, 18 of these scholar-athletes had an impressive perfect 4.00 GPA. All seven schools had at least one athlete who posted a 3.90 or above. Southern Illinois holds the most spots on the scholar-athlete team with 20 student-athletes on the team and a remarkable 8 student-athletes holding a 4.0 GPA.
| Name | GPA | School |
| Monica Blake | 4.00 | Missouri State |
| Maggie Burke | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Cierra Campbell | 4.00 | Indiana State |
| Laura Carver | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Shawna Elsey | 4.00 | Missouri State |
| Vasiliki Falaina | 4.00 | Little Rock |
| Nicole Fuller | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Bryn Handley | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Kendall Hansen | 4.00 | Indiana State |
| Rachel Hauser | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Ann Kharlamova | 4.00 | Little Rock |
| Samantha Parsons | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Jordan Ries | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Rachel Root | 4.00 | Illinois State |
| Jacqueline Rose | 4.00 | Southern Illinois |
| Payton Smith | 4.00 | Missouri State |
| Charis Won | 4.00 | Little Rock |
| Sydney Zupan | 4.00 | Missouri State |
| Alexa Klimes | 3.99 | Northern Iowa |
| Molly Lembezeder | 3.97 | Northern Iowa |
| Jill Georgen | 3.96 | Northern Iowa |
| Samantha Gray | 3.96 | Little Rock |
| Lauren Kacmarynski | 3.95 | Northern Iowa |
| Autumn Roepsch | 3.95 | Northern Iowa |
| Kaylee Gubricky | 3.93 | Evansville |
| Jessi Hildebrand | 3.93 | Evansville |
| Molly Hill | 3.93 | Illinois State |
| Mykenzie Kostka | 3.93 | Indiana State |
| Jessica Peck | 3.90 | Southern Illinois |
| Kristin Verkler | 3.90 | Illinois State |
| Kelsey Toland | 3.89 | Illinois State |
| Shayla Warrick | 3.88 | Northern Iowa |
| Alyssa Deuso | 3.86 | Northern Iowa |
| Allie Engstrom | 3.86 | Indiana State |
| Tori Fryar | 3.84 | Little Rock |
| Hope Ernhart | 3.83 | Missouri State |
| Hannah Brummel | 3.82 | Northern Iowa |
| Casey Balson | 3.81 | Illinois State |
| Kayla Grimm | 3.81 | Little Rock |
| Lauren Clark | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Savannah Henry | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Kristina Ksarjian | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Chandler Ott | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Payton Parman | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Lauren Stockton | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Rachel Williams | 3.80 | Southern Illinois |
| Courtney Coverdale | 3.79 | Evansville |
| Laura Paskoff | 3.79 | Illinois State |
| Crystal Florman | 3.78 | Northern Iowa |
| Laura Ruiz Astorga | 3.78 | Little Rock |
| Hanna Flanagan | 3.77 | Missouri State |
| Abigail Meyer | 3.77 | Northern Iowa |
| Yvette Kruk | 3.73 | Illinois State |
| Taylor Davidson | 3.72 | Evansville |
| Emma Brazeau | 3.70 | Southern Illinois |
| Savannah Rubocki | 3.69 | Illinois State |
| Loretta Stelnicki | 3.69 | Missouri State |
| Alexis Skiniotes | 3.67 | Missouri State |
| Brooke Dreiling | 3.63 | Missouri State |
| KateLin Carsrud | 3.60 | Little Rock |
| Lani Cieszynski | 3.60 | Southern Illinois |
| Nuria Gallego Murica | 3.60 | Little Rock |
| Brianna McCullough | 3.59 | Missouri State |
| Josie Pearson | 3.59 | Missouri State |
| Haley Allen | 3.57 | Missouri State |
| Alyssa Swanson | 3.57 | Illinois State |
| Lauren Pavel | 3.56 | Missouri State |
| Sarah Allegri | 3.54 | Missouri State |
| Alex Malmborg | 3.54 | Indiana State |
| Michaela Kent | 3.52 | Evansville |
| Karley Licking | 3.51 | Illinois State |
| Riley Schroedter | 3.50 | Southern Illinois |
| Veronica Herrmann | 3.46 | Northern Iowa |
| Kristen Myers | 3.44 | Evansville |
| Aftin Phyfe | 3.42 | Northern Iowa |
| Sarah James | 3.36 | Southern Illinois |
| Emma Doll | 3.32 | Little Rock |
| Rachel Holm | 3.32 | Illinois State |
| Briana Horozewski | 3.32 | Missouri State |
| Courtney Coe | 3.31 | Little Rock |
news courtesy of the Missouri Valley Conference.