Two Ohio Valley Conference student-athletes earn ESPN The Magazine At-Large Academic All-America honors as selected by CoSIDA. Eastern Kentucky's Alex Das and Tennessee Tech's Josh Simer were both named to the third team.

Das became the first Colonel to win the OVC Men's Player of the Year award since 1975. The junior was 5-0 against OVC opponents and 10-3 overall at No. 1 singles. In the classroom, Das was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, a national student-athlete honor society, in May and currently carries a 4.0 grade point average while majoring in aviation.

Simer recently received his degree from Tennessee Tech, graduating with a 4.00 GPA in business. He led the men's golf team with a 73.7 average and earned three all-tournament honors during his senior season. He finished in the Top 10 in tournaments five times during 2009-2010. A three-time recipient of the Ohio Valley Conference Academic Medal of Honor for achieving the highest GPA in the OVC in men's golf, Simer lettered four years on the golf team (with a redshirt year in 2007-08) and was named to the 2007 OVC All-Newcomer team.

The Men's At-Large program for the Academic All-America includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis and water polo.

The two selections bring the OVC total to 11 Academic All-Americans during the 2009-10 school year. All-time the OVC has had 190 Academic All-Americans, including 16 in the men's at-large program.