EAST LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan State athletic department placed a total of 134 student-athletes among the Big Ten’s list of 2022-23 Distinguished Scholars, which was released on Tuesday (June 27).
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 GPA 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 3.0 or higher for a student’s academic career. Over the course of the 2022-23 academic year, 341 MSU student-athletes across 24 varsity sports earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.
The 2022-23 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 328 student-athletes who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term across the Big Ten, 40 of whom wear the Green and White.
The Michigan State student-athletes earning Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors for 2022-23 are listed below. Those listed in bold posted a 4.0 GPA.
Baseball
Trent Farquhar, Kinesiology
Dominic Pianto, Accounting
Men’s Basketball
Women’s Basketball
Matilda Ekh, Business
Taiyier Parks, Public Relations
Field Hockey
Jillian Bonczewski, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities
Football
Men’s Golf
Women’s Golf
Gymnastics
Jori Jackard, Psychology
Giana Kalefe, Advertising Management
Genevieve Lebster, Engineering
Nyah Smith, Human Capital and Society
Hockey
Cal Dybicz, Supply Chain Management
AJ Hodges, Finance
Rowing
Maggie Carless, Human Development
Danielle Carlson, Chemical Engineering
Lily Devereaux, Finance
Maya Elbaranes, Supply Chain Management
Freya Engel, Criminal Justice
Ellise Flessland, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities
Carolynn Garner, Human Biology
Ella Harrell, Biosystems Engineering
Lizzie Johnston, Animal…
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