Ohio State leads Big Ten with 220 Distinguished Scholar honorees
Ohio State had a conference-best 220 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for 2023-24, the league announced recently.
The total is the second-most in school history, behind only the 232 recognized in 2020-21 and passing the 190 honored in 2022-23. This is the third year in a row Ohio State has led the conference in Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
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 grade-point average 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 3.00 or higher for a student-athlete's academic career.
The complete list of Ohio State Big Ten Distinguished Scholars is available at https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/documents/2024/6/25/Ohio_State_2023-24_B1….
Forty-eight Buckeyes were recognized for earning a 4.0 grade-point average in 2034-24:
• Katelyn Abeln, pistol
• Emily Armstrong, synchronized swimming
• Riley Brengman, women's hockey
• Jenna Buglioni, women's hockey
• Irina Cantos Siemers, women's tennis
• Faith Choi, women's golf
• Natalie Chourova, rowing
• Tegan Cortelletti, softball
• Chloe Dawson, women's cross country/track & field
• Alex Dediu, men's cross country/track & field
• Karina Dyner, fencing
• Mason Edmund, men's swimming & diving
• Amelia Figler, women's cross country/track & field
• Amy Fulmer, women's swimming & diving
• Jennifer Gardiner, women's hockey
• Alexandra Gluntz, rowing
• Madison Greene, women's basketball
• Kaitlyn Grimes, women's gymnastics
• Sam Hackenbracht, softball
• Jacob Harmon, men's gymnastics
• Rikki Harris, women's basketball
• Hadley Hartmetz, women's hockey
• Karl Helmuth, men's swimming & diving
• Justin Howard, men's volleyball
• Sarah Johnson, women's lacrosse
• Jaylen Jones, baseball
• Sean Kaminski, men's cross country/track & field
• Kira Katterle, rowing
• Carson Kharchla, wrestling
• Raygan Kirk, women's hockey
• Sarah Klein, women's lacrosse
• Clark Kokenge, fencing
• Quinn Kuntz, women's hockey
• Katherine Larimer, fencing
• Abbie Leverett, pistol
• Erin Little, field hockey
• Emily Londot, women's volleyball
• Morgan Miller, rowing
• Audrey Murphy, rowing
• Darby Pethrick, rowing
• Catherine Russo, women's swimming & diving
• Leah Sax, women's lacrosse
• Emma Shumate, women's basketball
• Lindsay Stull, women's cross country/track & field
• Nathaniel Tamminga, men's cross country/track & field
• Taylor Thierry, women's basketball
• Tess Thompson, rowing
• Jojo Warga, women's gymnastics.
In addition, 264 Buckeyes from spring and at-large sports were named to the Academic All-Big Ten Team, joining 124 who were recognized from fall sports and 103 winter sport honorees. This year, 811 Buckeyes earned a spot on the Ohio State Scholar-Athlete list and 203 current and former student-athletes received degrees at spring commencement.
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