BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Big Ten Conference announced on Thursday that student-athletes from the conference – including 103 from Indiana athletics teams – have earned the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. The list includes students from all 14 institutions and 38 different sports, who have recorded a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.
The 103 honorees from Indiana represents back-to-back years in which the Hoosiers have had over 100 honorees. This also comes on the heels of 349 student-athletes earning Academic All-Big Ten honors in the 2021-22 school year, a program record.
“Congratulations to our 103 students who have excelled in the classroom and earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors,” said IU Vice President and Director of Athletics Scott Dolson. “These students have shown the ability to not only manage the type of demands on their time that very few other students have, but to perform at the highest level academically while doing so. This marks the second straight year that we have had at least 100 of our students earn this special honor, which is a great source of pride for our department.”
Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Similar to the Academic All-Big Ten honor, Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must be letter winners in at least their second academic year at their institution. However, the Distinguished Scholar Award encompasses only students with a minimum GPA of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year, excluding summer school. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student’s academic career.
A complete list of Indiana honorees by sports is below.
Football
Peter Schulz
Ricky Tamis
Trey Walker
Luke Wiginton
Field Hockey
Mary Kate Kesler
Kennedy Reardon
Men’s Golf
Evan Yakubov
Men’s Tennis
Michael Andre
Nishanth Basavareddy
Mac Rogers
Jagger Saylor
Men’s Track and Field
Adam Coulon
Jyles Etienne
Christian Goines
Tyler Sierks
Jake Gebhardt
Arjun Jha
Kyle Mau
Parker Raymond
Skylar Stidam
Ben Veatch
Cooper Williams
Men’s Soccer
Luke Boha
Spencer Glass
Andrew Goldsworthy
Quinten Helmer
Austin Himebaugh
Alex McGill
Bryant Pratt
Ben Yeagley
Volleyball
Morgan Geddes
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