ROSEMONT, Ill. -- The Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday that 914 students competing in intercollegiate athletics 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 2015-16 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes at least 147 students who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term. This group of honorees is pursuing diverse fields of study with a list of majors that include mathematics, accountancy, kinesiology, biological sciences, law and public policy, mechanical engineering, nursing, biotechnology, elementary education, business, journalism, marketing, psychology and many others.
Purdue had 54 student-athletes earn the award, including 14 that had a 4.0 -- Jon McKeeman, Hayden Hamby, Bree Horrocks, Matt McClintock, Sharise Lund, Jimmy Herman, Kim Love, Mary Gooding, Evan Barta, Alex Toetz, Madison Monteiro, Nika Petric, Gergely Madarasz, and Linnea Rohrsen.
Cross country and track and field are listed separately, giving eight Boilermakers honors for multiple sports -- Jeremy Craven, Jacob Hanawalt and Matthew McClintock on the men's side and Gabrielle Broschard, Kendall Hacker, Katie Hoevet, Brooke Kline and Sharise Lund on the women's.
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 letterwinners 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.
| NAME | SPORT | YEAR | MAJOR |
| Gavin Downs | Baseball | Sr. | Agricultural & Biological Engineering |
| Patrick Kenney | Baseball | Jr. | Selling & Sales Management |
| Jon McKeeman | Men's Basketball | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Hayden Hamby | Women's Basketball | Sr. | Health and Human Sciences |
| Bree Horrocks | Women's Basketball | So. | Psychology |
| Jeremy Craven | Men's Cross Country | So. | Computer Sciences |
| Jacob Hanawalt | Men's Cross Country | So. | Law & Society |
| Matthew McClintock | Men's Cross Country | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Gabrielle Broschard | Women's Cross Country | So. | Animal Sciences |
| Kendall Hacker | Women's Cross Country | So. | Chemical Engineering |
| Katie Hoevet | Women's Cross Country | Sr. | Mechanical Engineering |
| Brooke Kline | Women's Cross Country | Sr. | Animal Sciences |
| Sharise Lund | Women's Cross Country | Sr. | Industrial Engineering |
| Jimmy Herman | Football | Sr. | Industrial Engineering |
| J.J. Prince | Football | Sr. | Management |
| Stuart Macdonald | Men's Golf | Sr. | Organizational Leadership & Supervision |
| Anna Appert Lund | Women's Golf | Sr. | Organizational Leadership & Supervision |
| Megan Kaser | Women's Soccer | Jr. | Health Science Pre-professional |
| Kim Love | Women's Soccer | Sr. | Health Science Pre-professional |
| Erika Yohn | Women's Soccer | So. | Mass Communication |
| Paris Andrew | Softball | Sr. | Elementary Education |
| Lilly Fecho | Softball | Sr. | Mathematics |
| Mary Gooding | Softball | Sr. | Organizational Leadership & Supervision |
| Marat Amaltdinov | Men's Swimming & Diving | So. | Economics/Finance |
| Evan Barta | Men's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Industrial Engineering |
| Josh Brooks | Men's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Electrical Engineering |
| Ted Curtiss | Men's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Materials Science & Engineering |
| Bo Ilgenfritz | Men's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering |
| Jake Thomas | Men's Swimming & Diving | So. | Biomedical Engineering |
| Nate Thomas | Men's Swimming & Diving | So. | Political Science/Sociology |
| Alex Toetz | Men's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Movement & Sport Science |
| Stevie Bauer | Women's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Animal Sciences |
| Allie Davis | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Law & Society |
| Mary Beth Dunnichay | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Mass Communication |
| Emily Fogle | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Human Services |
| Grace Hernandez | Women's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Biology |
| Meagan Lim | Women's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Materials Science & Engineering |
| Lizzy Lyon | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Interior Design |
| Madison Monteiro | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Marketing |
| Nika Petric | Women's Swimming & Diving | Sr. | Interior Design |
| Leah Ritsema | Women's Swimming & Diving | Jr. | Organizational Leadership & Supervision |
| Gergely Madarasz | Men's Tennis | So. | Finance |
| Andjela Djokovic | Women's Tennis | Jr. | Biochemistry |
| Krisztina Kapitany | Women's Tennis | Sr. | Management |
| Jeremy Craven | Men's Track & Field | So. | Computer Sciences |
| Luke Lewis | Men's Track & Field | So. | Chemistry |
| Jacob Hanawalt | Men's Track & Field | So. | Law & Society |
| Matthew McClintock | Men's Track & Field | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Gabrielle Broschard | Women's Track & Field | So. | Animal Sciences |
| Kendall Hacker | Women's Track & Field | So. | Chemical Engineering |
| Katie Hoevet | Women's Track & Field | Sr. | Mechanical Engineering |
| Jessica Harter | Women's Track & Field | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Micaela Hazlewood | Women's Track & Field | So. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Brooke Kline | Women's Track & Field | Sr. | Animal Sciences |
| Chelsie Meeks | Women's Track & Field | Jr. | Organizational Leadership & Supervision |
| Amy Poynter | Women's Track & Field | Jr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Sharise Lund | Women's Track & Field | Sr. | Industrial Engineering |
| Ashley Evans | Women's Volleyball | Jr. | Mechanical Engineering |
| Amanda Neill | Women's Volleyball | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Linnea Rohrsen | Women's Volleyball | So. | Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences |
| Andy Hoselton | Wrestling | Sr. | Movement & Sport Sciences |
| Tanner Lynde | Wrestling | Jr. | Selling & Sales Management |