Four Earn Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Honors – Ohio State Buckeyes
7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Four Ohio State soccer players are part of the Big Ten Conference’s inaugural class of recipients for the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. The class features student-athletes from every Big Ten institution and 32 different sports who have earned a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.
Representing the soccer team are Ashley Bowyer, who will be a senior captain for the Buckeyes this season, Courtney Jenkins, a junior who was one of only 69 student-athletes across the Big Ten with a perfect 4.0 GPA this past year, Ali Schwach, a junior who is a senior academically, and the recently graduated Amy Graeff. Bowyer, from Aliso Viejo, Calif., is majoring in physical therapy. Jenkins is from Dublin, Ohio, and is majoring in physical therapy and Schwach, from Mendota Heights, Minn., is majoring in biology. Graeff, from Westerville, earned her degree in psychology and she has minors in women’s studies and legal foundations. She will be attending Capital Law School in the fall.
In February of 2008, Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholars academic recognition 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 new award encompasses only student-athletes 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 their academic career.
A complete list of the 2008-09 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award winners is attached as a PDF.
###OhioStateBuckeyes.com###
