Spartans Produce 134 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars

EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan State athletic department placed a total of 134 student-athletes among the Big Ten’s list of 2022-23 Distinguished Scholars, which was released on Tuesday (June 27). 

 

Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters or three quarters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year, excluding any summer grades. 

 

The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student’s academic career.  Over the course of the 2022-23 academic year, 341 MSU student-athletes across 24 varsity sports earned Academic All-Big Ten honors. 

 

The 2022-23 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 328 student-athletes who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term across the Big Ten, 40 of whom wear the Green and White. 

 

The Michigan State student-athletes earning Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors for 2022-23 are listed below. Those listed in bold posted a 4.0 GPA. 

 

Baseball 

Trent Farquhar, Kinesiology 

Dominic Pianto, Accounting 

Men’s Basketball 

Women’s Basketball 

Matilda Ekh, Business 

Taiyier Parks, Public Relations 

Field Hockey 

Jillian Bonczewski, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities 

Football 

Men’s Golf 

Women’s Golf 

Gymnastics 

Jori Jackard, Psychology 

Giana Kalefe, Advertising Management 

Genevieve Lebster, Engineering 

Nyah Smith, Human Capital and Society 

Hockey 

Cal Dybicz, Supply Chain Management 

AJ Hodges, Finance 

Rowing 

Maggie Carless, Human Development 

Danielle Carlson, Chemical Engineering 

Lily Devereaux, Finance 

Maya Elbaranes, Supply Chain Management 

Freya Engel, Criminal Justice 

Ellise Flessland, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities 

Carolynn Garner, Human Biology 

Ella Harrell, Biosystems Engineering 

Lizzie Johnston, Animal…