Buckeyes Lead Way with 190 B1G Distinguished Scholars
6/27/2023 11:49:00 AM | General, SASSO
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State had a conference-best 190 student-athletes named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for 2022-23, the league announced Tuesday. The total is the second-most in school history, behind only the 232 recognized in 2020-21. Last year the Scarlet and Gray had 167 to pace the B1G, a number that is now third all-time for the Buckeyes.
Ohio State, Penn State (174) and Michigan State (153) were the only schools with more than 150 honorees in 2022-23.
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 in the PDF at the link above and in the table below.
Forty-seven Buckeyes were recognized for earning a 4.0 grade-point average in 2022-23:
• Katelyn Abeln, pistol
• Katelyn Bartos, women's rowing
• Drew Blanchard, men's lacrosse
• Jenna Buglioni, women's hockey
• Irina Cantos Siemers, women's tennis
• Faith Choi, women's golf
• Samuel Clark, men's volleyball
• Elexis Edwards, women's gymnastics
• Sam Faber, men's lacrosse
• Miranda Freedman, women's fencing
• Amy Fulmer, women's swimming
• Claire Gagliardi, women's gymnastics
• Jennifer Gardiner, women's hockey
• Maya Geringer, women's swimming
• Alexandra Gluntz, women's rowing
• Mia Grunze, women's volleyball
• McKenzie Hauswirth, women's hockey
• Leandra Hogrefe, women's rowing
• Teresa Ivan, women's swimming
• Jay Johnson, men's swimming
• Kira Katerle, women's rowing
• Natalie Katsuyama, rifle
• Clark Kokenge, men's fencing
• Andrea Kuhn, women's cross country/track & field
• Henry Lange, men's fencing
• Jamie Level, women's lacrosse
• Amanda Ling, women's diving
• Emily Londot, women's volleyball
• Lucia Marzal, women's tennis
• Morgan Miller, women's rowing
• Connor Mitchell, men's lacrosse
• Mia Mlynek, women's cross country/track & field
• Reverie Nedde, synchronized swimming
• Hannah Oliveros, women's gymnastics
• Darby Pethrick, women's rowing
• Mac Podraza, women's volleyball
• Sydni Ratliff, women's tennis
• Kristen Ruscitelli, women's fencing
• Mitchell Sandberg, men's lacrosse
• Olivia Schafer, synchronized swimming
• Patrick Schmuecking, men's golf
• Zach Shultz, men's cross country/track & field
• Ivan Slyepkan, men's cross country/track & field
• Jack Studley, men's gymnastics
• Tess Thompson, women's rowing
• Jessy Vermeer, women's rowing
• Katherine Zenick, women's swimming
Earlier this week 262 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 120 winter sport honorees. This year, 765 Buckeyes earned a spot on the Ohio State Scholar-Athlete list and 191 current and former student-athletes received degrees at spring commencement. By the end of May, 95 percent of this year's student-athlete graduates had secured full-time employment, been accepted to graduate school or had signed a professional sports contract.
