47 From Football Team Honored as OSU Scholar-Athletes
4/11/2019 6:49:38 AM | Football
COLUMBUS, Ohio – First-team Academic All-American Jordan Fuller, a marketing major from Old Tappan, N.J., and Kevin Woidke, a two-year letterman from Cleveland whose on field efforts have recently earned him a scholarship, lead nearly half a roster of Ohio State football Buckeyes – 47 in all – who have earned OSU Scholar-Athlete honors for the 2018-19 academic calendar.
A total of 674 student-athletes – those with 3.00 or better grade point averages for the year – were honored in the Archie M. Griffin Ballroom at the Ohio Union this evening during the department’s 52nd annual scholar-athlete banquet.
Fuller, who carries a 3.81 overall grade point average and is majoring in marketing, is an OSU Scholar-Athlete for a third time. His impressive academic credentials include being named a Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar, Academic all-Big Ten (twice) and second-team Academic All-American in 2017 when he was a sophomore.
He tied for the team lead in tackles last season with 81 and he was second to Jerome Baker in 2017. Fuller enters his senior season with the Buckeyes with a team-high 162 career tackles.
Woidke earns the distinction of being the only football player this spring who is a four-time OSU Scholar-Athlete. He has played in every game the past two seasons when the Buckeyes captured back-to-back Big Ten titles and won Cotton and Rose bowl games.
Three-time scholar-athlete honorees include: Drue Chrisman, Gavin Cupp, Brock Davin, Luke Farrell, Jake Hausmann, Dre’mont Jones, Bryan Kristan, Liam McCullough and C.J. Saunders.
Jones, a first-team All-American this past season who has graduated with his degree in sociology, led a corps of 21 players who were also named to the Academic All-Big Ten team last fall.
A total of 12 true freshmen earned OSU Scholar-Athlete accolades.
2018-19 Football Scholar-Athletes
*Indicates 2018 Academic All-Big Ten honoree (must be a sophomore academically); class indicates current academic standing
• Fr. WR Kamryn Babb – management & industry exploring
• Fr. QB Matthew Baldwin – business administration
• Fr. SAF Ryan Batsch – exploring majors
• Fr. K Jack Cappabianca – management & industry exploring
• Jr. P Drue Chrisman* – consumer and family financial services
• Gr. QB Chris Chugunov* – sport management
• So. DL Aaron Cox* – Science & technology exploration
• Jr. OL Gavin Cupp* – Human development & family science
• Jr. TE Brock Davin* – finance
• So. SAF Kevin Dever* – Finance
• Jr. DL Noah Donald – Industrial and systems engineering
• Fr. SAF Luke Donovan – Business
• Jr. SAF Owen Fankhauser – Human development & family science
• Jr. TE Luke Farrell* – Health promotion, nutrition & exercise science
• Fr. DE Tyler Friday – Management & industry exploring
• Jr. SAF Jordan Fuller* – marketing
• Fr. LB Dallas Gant – Management & industry exploring
• Fr. H-B Jaelen Gill – Communications
• Fr. DL Zaid Hamdan – Science & technology exploration
• So. K Blake Haubeil* – Communications
• Jr. TE Jake Hausmann* – Communications
• Sr. LB Justin Hilliard – Marketing
• Jr. LB Logan Hittle* – Sport industry
• Fr. OL Jack Jamieson – Management & industry exploring
• Fr. RB Xavier Johnson – Management & industry exploring
• Gr. DT Dre’mont Jones* – Sociology
• Fr. LB Cade Kacherski – Finance
• Sr. K Bryan Kristan* – Finance
• Fr. OL Chris Kuhn – Mathematics
• Jr. LS Liam McCullough* – Finance
• Fr. LS Roen McCullough – Finance
• Jr. RB Amari McMahon* – Biology
• Jr. P Jake Metzer* – Electrical and computer engineering
• Fr. LB Teradja Mitchell – Management & industry exploring
• Fr. OL Nicholas Petit-Frere – Operations management
• Jr. LS Bradley Robinson* – Human development & family science
• So. RB Mitch Rossi* – Sport industry
• Fr. TE Jeremy Ruckert – Exploring majors
• Sr. WR C.J. Saunders* – Accounting
• Fr. LB Ben Schmiesing – Business
• Fr. DE Tyreke Smith – Science & technology exploration
• Fr. RB Master Teague – Exploring majors
• Fr. DT Taron Vincent – Management & industry exploring
• So. LB Pete Werner* – Exploring majors
• Fr. DT Alex Williams – Fashion &and retail studies
• So. CB Marcus Williamson* – History
• Sr. OL Kevin Woidke* – Real estate and urban analysis
