DEARBORN, Mich. - The University of Michigan-Dearborn women's basketball tied for the most NAIA Scholar Athletes by any women's basketball team in Division II for the 2017-18 season, it was announced by the NAIA on Monday.

The Wolverines earned seven NAIA Scholar Athlete nominations, tying with Milligan College for the most by one institution.

In order to be nominated by an institution's head coach or sports information director, a student-athlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale and must have achieved a junior academic status to qualify for this honor.

Seniors Megan Swick (SR/Grosse Ile, Mich.), Lauron Sanders (SR/Rochester, MI) and Meredith Williams (SR/Novi, Mich.) were joined by juniors Natalie Spala (JR/Livonia, MI), Micah White (JR/Harper Woods, MI), Emily Heinrich (JR/South Lyon, MI) and Jenna Rogers (JR/South Lyon, MI). The award is the second for women's basketball for Swick and Williams, who each made the list last season.

Rogers was named an NAIA Scholar Athlete earlier in the 2017-18 academic year as a member of the UM-Dearborn women's soccer team.