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Olson Honored with State Farm MVC Good Neighbor Award

ST. LOUIS – Fifth-year senior Emme Olson was one of 12 student-athletes honored with the spring edition of the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Good Neighbor Award the conference announced on Tuesday.

Olson had an incredible year both on and off the field as she was named the 2022-23 MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and she earned All-MVC First Team accolades for the first time in her career. She boasts an impressive 4.0 cumulative grade point average in her Integrated MPA (accounting) program while also cementing her name in numerous categories in the Redbird Softball record book across her five seasons at Illinois State.