Big Ten doles out Distinguished Scholar Awards
July 10, 2013 | Men's Golf
July 10, 2013
PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- Thirty-nine University of Wisconsin student-athletes were named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars for 2012-13 in a release by the Big Ten Conference office Wednesday.
The Conference announced that over 550 student-athletes were selected in 36 different sports who had earned a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year. Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution.
Wisconsin had 15 sports represented in the Distinguished Honors List including men's cross country (2); women's cross country (1); men’s golf (1); women's golf (1); women's hockey (1); women's lightweight rowing (5); men's rowing (5); women's rowing (4); women's soccer (3); women's swimming and diving (2); men's track (1); women's track (7); volleyball (1); wrestling (3).
Twelve honorees representing eight different sports had a 4.0 cumulative grade point average for the 2012-13 year.
Three-time honorees include Megan Beers from women’s track and field, Kendall Schmidt from women’s rowing, Michael Brice from men’s cross country and Erin Jacobsen from women’s soccer. Other repeat honorees include Kimberly Dinh from women’s golf; Lindsay Hamman from women’s soccer; Jessica Lund women’s lightweight rowing; Cody Rissman in men’s rowing and Crystal Graf from volleyball.
Wisconsin's 2012-13 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars
| Name | Year | Major | Hometown |
| Men's Cross Country | |||
| Michael Brice ** | Sr. | Special Education | Kaukuana, Wis. |
| Reed Connor * | Sr. | Marketing | Houston, Texas |
| Women's Cross Country | |||
| Taylor Zimprich | Fr. | Accounting | Waunakee, Wis. |
| Ashley Beutler | Jr. | Human Development and Family Studies | New Glarus, Wis. |
| Hanna Knurr | Jr. | Pharmacology | Waterford, Wis. |
| Men's Golf | |||
| Chris Meyer | Sr. | Marketing | Edina, Minn. |
| Women's Golf | |||
| Kimberly Dinh* | So. | Chemical Engineering | Midland, Mich. |
| Women's Hockey | |||
| Natalie Berg | Jr. | Biology | Minnetonka, Minn. |
| Women's Lightweight Rowing | |||
| Elizabeth Emmerich | So. | Pre-Dietetics | Cottage Grove, Wis. |
| Cassie Forman | So. | Civil Engineering | Waterloo, Wis. |
| Jessica Lund* | Sr. | Biology | Lake Oswego, Ore. |
| Gretchen Miron | So. | History & Journalism | Appleton, Wis. |
| Page Resch | So. | Political Science | Appleton, Wis. |
| Men's Rowing | |||
| William Bleifuss | So. | Biology | Schofield, Wis. |
| Charles Clapp IV | Sr. | Finance | Hingham, Mass. |
| Alec Hub | Sr. | Eduction-Math | Naperville, Ill. |
| Janhwon Kwon | Jr. | Pharmacology | Madison, Wis. |
| Cody Rissman * | Sr. | Biology & Micro-Biology | Dekalb, Ill. |
| Women's Rowing | |||
| Emily Norco | Sr. | Kinesiology | Downers Grove, Ill. |
| Elizabeth Parker | Jr. | Sociology | McLean, Va. |
| Lauren Peitila | Sr. | Biology & Life Science Communication | Hartford, Wis. |
| Kendall Schmidt** | Sr. | Civil Engineering | Greenfield, Wis. |
| Elizabeth Schoenfeldt | So. | Bio Chemistry | Milwaukee, Wis. |
| Women's Soccer | |||
| Joana Bielefeld | Sr. | Psychology | Brookfield, Wis. |
| Lindsey Hamann * | Sr. | Communicative Disorders | Cedarburg, Wis. |
| Nicole La Petina | So. | Communicative Disorders and Spanish | Warrenville, Ill. |
| Erin Jacobsen ** | Gr. | Kinesiology | Wheaton, Ill. |
| Softball | |||
| Maria Van Abel * | So. | Pre-business | Kaukauna, Wis. |
| Women's Swimming and Diving | |||
| Ellle Meinholz | Sr. | English & Comm. Arts | Oconomowoc, Wis |
| Hannah Ross | Sr. | Zoology | Pocatello, Idaho |
| Men's Track & Field | |||
| William Ottow | Fr. | Music | Lacrosse, Wis. |
| Women's Track & Field | |||
| Fiona Baus | So. | Kinesiology | Green Bay, Wis. |
| Megan Beers** | Sr. | Elementary Education | Brooklyn, Wis. |
| Ashley Beutler | Sr. | Human Development & Family Studies | New Glarus, Wis. |
| Taylor Kirby | So. | Biology | Carlock, Ill. |
| Abby Lueck | Jr. | Nursing | Columbus, Ohio |
| Emmon Rogers | So. | Scandinavian Studies | Logan, Utah |
| Abbie Wiegel | Jr. | Kinesiology | Maple Grove, Minn. |
| Volleyball | |||
| Crystal Graff | So. | Kinesiology | Madison, Wis. |
| Student-athletes with 4.0 GPAs in bold | |||
| *Two-time honoree | |||
| **Three-time honoree | |||
