ST. LOUIS – Illinois State track & field and cross country senior J.D. LaFayette is one of two student-athletes featured in this week's Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Spotlight, presented by Enterprise Bank and Trust Company, the league announced Wednesday. LaFayette is now the third Redbird to be recognized this fall, joining volleyball's Ali Line and Kate Del Fava of the women's soccer team.
A computer science major and mathematics minor, LaFayette has maintained a flawless 4.0 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) over the course of his career. He is a two-time CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-American for Track & Field and Cross Country, receiving second-team All-American honors in 2017-18 and third team honors in 2015-16.