INDIANAPOLIS – On Thursday morning, the Horizon League announced its 2024 All-Academic Team with three members of the Milwaukee baseball team recognized for their efforts in the classroom.
 
Earning a spot on the All-Academic Team were pitchers Keagon Kaufmann and Johnny Kelliher, while Adrian Montilva received honorable mention acknowledgment.
 
Kaufmann has made a career-high 17 appearances this season and tossed 20 innings with 16 strikeouts and leads Milwaukee's staff with three wins in relief with a 6.75 ERA. Since his outing at Northern Kentucky in late March, Kaufmann has posted a 3.56 ERA and thrown 17 2/3 innings which included two wins in a week against Northern Illinois and Purdue Fort Wayne. Kaufmann is an accounting major with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.876.
 
Kelliher has been another valuable arm for the Panthers out of the bullpen as he has appeared in a team-high 19 games and posted a 7.36 ERA with 18 strikeouts over his 18 1/3 innings of work. Kelliher has one win and three saves and has only allowed four earned runs over his last 11 innings of work for a 3.27 ERA. In the classroom, Kelliher is an industrial engineering major and had a 3.768 cumulative grade-point average entering the spring term.
 
Montilva is tied for the team lead with 13 starts this season and has two wins and a 5.01 ERA as he is second on the team having pitched 59 1/3 innings. His 70 strikeouts are second on the team, while he is also among the team and Horizon League leaders with a .257 batting average against. He is ranked in the top 100 of NCAA Division I pitchers in strikeouts per nine innings at 10.62. Montilva is a finance major and came into the spring semester with a 3.421 cumulative grade-point average.
 
The Horizon League recognizes student-athletes with seasonal Academic All-League Teams in each of its 19 championship sports. To be eligible for Horizon League All-Academic consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale), have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits, and participate in 50 percent of the team's overall contests or 20 percent for baseball and softball pitchers. An Honorable Mention team is awarded to student-athletes who received at least 25 percent of votes but did not make the All-Academic team.