INDIANAPOLIS – The Horizon League announced its Spring Scholar Athletes of the Season, with the Milwaukee track & field program sweeping the honors. Divine Aniamaka was named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Season, while Natalie Block earned Female Scholar-Athlete recognition.
 
Block has been a consistent presence on the Horizon League All-Academic team, earning the distinction four times throughout her career, including this season for both indoor and outdoor track. She is also a three-time member of the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team. A biomedical science major, Block graduated with a 3.56 undergraduate GPA and currently holds a 3.95 GPA in graduate school.
 
On the track, the Franklin, Wis., native delivered yet another record-breaking campaign. Earlier this month, she qualified for the NCAA Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., earning Second Team All-American honors in the 400m hurdles with a time of 56.92. She also claimed Horizon League titles this spring in both the 100m and 400m hurdles.
 
In just his second season with the Panthers, Aniamaka is pursuing his degree in biomedical engineering. This spring, he earned his first Horizon League All-Academic Team selection for the outdoor season and was previously named to the league's Fall Academic Honor Roll in his first eligible semester. He currently holds a 3.84 undergraduate GPA through four semesters at Milwaukee.
 
Aniamaka won the Horizon League championship in the triple jump with a mark of 15.39m. He was the only student-athlete in the conference to surpass the 15-meter mark this season, doing so six times during the outdoor campaign. He qualified for the NCAA West Regionals, where he broke the program record with a leap of 15.42m.
 
The Scholar-Athletes of the Season awards are presented three times each year to a total of six student-athletes across all Horizon League-sponsored sports. Aniamaka and Block join Lainey Higgins of women's soccer, who was named the Fall Scholar-Athlete of the Season in mid-December.
 
This marks the first time Milwaukee has swept the Scholar-Athlete of the Season honors since the fall of 2021, when Ari Miller (volleyball) and Paolo Gratton (men's soccer) claimed the awards.