WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Student-athletes from the fall sports season continued Purdue Athletics' academic success in the classroom, joining forces to produce 73 Academic All-Big Ten honors.

During the 2022-23 school year, the Boilermakers had 240 Academic All-Big Ten honorees and 65 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten, student-athletes must be enrolled full-time at their university for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition is based on a 3.7-plus yearly or cumulative GPA for sophomores and above.

Football led the way with 33 Academic All-Big Ten honorees this fall. Cross country produced 16 (9 women, 7 men). Soccer (17) and volleyball (7) both had a large majority of their award-eligible student-athletes also recognized.

Among the Boilermakers recognized is an elite group of 18 student-athletes to be honored by the conference for at least the third time. Of those 18, runner Ian Hunter is now a rare five-time honoree (in solely cross country) and All-Big Ten libero Maddie Schermerhorn was recognized for the fourth time. Hunter triple-majored in actuarial science, applied statistics and computer science as an undergraduate is now pursuing a master's degree in statistics.

 

3-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN HONOREES Seniors/fifth-year student-athletes to be recognized at least 3 times
CROSS COUNTRY • Ian Hunter (5x) • Caroline Jordan • Payne Turney SOCCER • Callie Ingram • Nicole Kevdzija • Victoria Kevdzija • Hannah Martin • Emily Mathews	FOOTBALL • Ben Buechel • Brendan Cropsey • Ben Furtney • Gus Hartwig • Josh Kaltenberger • Caleb Krockover • Andrew Sowinski • Nick Taylor • Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen VOLLEYBALL • Maddie Schermerhorn (4x)

Altogether, 38 of the 73 Boilermakers recognized this month are now multi-year Academic All-Big Ten honorees. Men's cross country (6 of 7, 86%) and soccer (12 of 17, 71%) had the highest percentages of repeat honorees.

The Big Ten Conference recognized a total of 1,577 student-athletes as Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the fall sports season. That total includes 586 from football, 376 from soccer, 351 from cross country, 125 from volleyball and 139 from field hockey.

Purdue's fall Academic All-Big Ten Honorees & majors by sport
(Years in parentheses are those in which he or she was Academic All-Big Ten)

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (7)
• Kiefer Bell – Exploratory Studies
• Alex Frey – Computer Science (2022)
• Ian Hunter – Master's in Statistics (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019)
• Jason Polydoris – Mechanical Engineering (2022)
• Nathan Walker – Mathematics Education (2022)
• Caleb Williams – Animation (2022)
• Brady Yoder – General Management (2022)

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY (9)
• Jaelyn Burgos – Kinesiology
• Christel Elkins – Developmental & Family Science
• Caroline Jordan – Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology (2022, 2021)
• Sarah Maggio – First-Year Engineering
• Olivia Phillips – Kinesiology
• Katherine Rumsey – First-Year Engineering
• Emma Squires – Industrial Engineering (2022)
• Payne Turney – Biochemistry / Master's in Public Health (2022, 2021)
• Caitlin Williams – Kinesiology

FOOTBALL (33)
• Kyle Adams – Finance
• Jack Ansell – Selling & Sales Management (2022)
• Drew Biber – Financial Counseling & Planning (2022)
• Cole Brevard – Selling & Sales Management
• Ben Buechel – General Management (2022, 2021)
• Elijah Canion – Finance
• Brendan Cropsey – Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering (2022, 2021)
• Curtis Deville Jr. – Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Dylan Downing – Organizational Leadership
• Trey Firestone – Kinesiology
• Ben Furtney – Chemical Engineering (2022, 2021)
• Christian Gelov – Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering (2022)
• Gus Hartwig – Finance  (2022, 2021)
• Daniel Johnson – Master's in Curriculum & Instruction
• Josh Kaltenberger – General Management (2022, 2021)
• Max Klare – Financial Counseling & Planning
• Caleb Krockover – Mechanical Engineering Technology (2022, 2021)
• Ben Kuhns – Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Julio Macias – Retail Management
• Hudson Miller – Marketing
• Jaxon Mull – Undeclared
• Andre Oben – Selling & Sales Management
• Hayden Parise – Psychology
• Roman Pitre – Selling & Sales Management
• Aaron Roberts – Kinesiology (2022)
• Joe Strickland – Industrial Engineering Technology
• Andrew Sowinski – Marketing (2022, 2021)
• Khordae Sydnor – Financial Counseling & Planning (2022)
• Nick Taylor – Biomedical Health Sciences (2022, 2021)
• Tyrone Tracy Jr. – Communications
• Ben Van Noord – Political Science (2022)
• Drew Woodruff – Mechanical Engineering
• Abdur-Rahmaan Yaseen – General Management (2022, 2021)

SOCCER (17)
• Sabrina Blount – Animal Sciences
• Sydney Boudreau – Civil Engineering (2022)
• Kayla Budish – Brain & Behavioral Sciences
• Kelsi Carrico – Public Health (2022)
• Brooke Haarala – Medical Laboratory Sciences
• Olivia Hall – Public Health
• Lauren Holleran – Strategic Communication (2022)
• Sydney Hunt – Finance (2022)
• Megan Hutchinson – Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (2022)
• Callie Ingram – Nutrition & Dietetics (2022, 2021)
• Nicole Kevdzija – Electrical Engineering (2022, 2021)
• Victoria Kevdzija – Mechanical Engineering (2022, 2021)
• Riley Knudsen – Industrial Engineering
• Hannah Martin – Master's in Management (2022, 2021)
• Emily Mathews – Mechanical Engineering (2022, 2021)
• Abigail Roy – Integrated Business & Engineering (2022)
• Naomi Splittorff – Biomedical Health Sciences

VOLLEYBALL (7)
• Emily Brown – Kinesiology
• Lizzie Carr – Marketing
• Ali Hornung – Hospitality & Tourism Management (2022)
• Eva Hudson – Biomedical Health Sciences: Pre-Med
• Emily Rastovski – Biomedical Health Sciences: Pre-Med (2022)
• Maddie Schermerhorn – Graduate Certificate in Communication & Leadership (2022, 2021, 2020)
• Sydney Yim – Elementary Education (2022)