University of Minnesota Athletics
Gophers Earn Academic Big Ten Honors
6/1/2016 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
MINNEAPOLIS (GopherSports.com) - A total of 146 University of Minnesota student-athletes were honored by the Big Ten Conference on the Academic All-Big Ten Team for spring and at-large sports, the conference announced on Tuesday. The Gophers totaled 283 Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the 2015-16 academic year.
Five members of the Maroon & Gold track & field team (Alex Beckman, Amanda Beckman, Jess Lehman and Lyndsay Thorpe, Kaila Urick) carried unblemished cumulative grade point averages while the program was one of two Minnesota teams, along with rowing, to lead the spring and at-large sports with 29 Academic All-Big Ten honorees each. Men's track & field added 22 accolades followed by baseball with 17, women's hockey with 14 and softball with 12. Men's golf featured seven award winners while women's tennis carried six and men's tennis and women's golf recorded five each. A total of 10 Minnesota programs boasted Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the spring and at-large sports.
To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, students must be letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
Baseball (17)
Cody Campbell
Micah Coffey
Matt Fiedler
Toby Hanson
Tyler Hanson
Jacob Herbers
Jordan Jess
Fred Manke
Ty McDevitt
Dan Motl
Luke Pettersen
Dalton Sawyer
Connor Schaefbauer
Tim Shannon
Jordan Smith
Matt Stemper
Troy Traxler
Men's Golf (7)
Runar Arnorsson
Charlie Duensing
Jon DuToit
Riley Johnson
Jose Mendez
Grady Meyer
Matt Rachey
Men's Tennis (5)
Felix Corwin
Jeremy Lynn
Tucker Saxon
Matic Spec
Ruben Weber
Men's Track & Field (22)
Nick Bachinski
Aaron Bartnik
Bryan Bjerk
Jordan Charles
Gian Ferretti
Gemechu Godi
Wayde Hall
Glen Harold
Ben Holcomb
Charlie Lawrence
Ryan Lockard
Brad Neumann
Mac Riedy
Nate Roese
Matt Rosen
Christian Skaret
Viktor Stelter
James Travis
Matt Welch
Derek Wiebke
Luca Wieland
Adam Zutz
Softball (12)
Elizabeth Cowger
Sydney Dwyer
Hannah Evavold
Sydney Fabian
Sara Groenewegen
Taylor LeMay
Samantha Macken
Brandi McGregor
Danielle Parlich
Erika Rozell
Kylie Stober
Kayla Wenner
Women's Golf (5)
Alexandra Buska
Heather Ciskowski
Sabrine Grrison
Cecilia Kuenster
Emie Peronnin
Women's Hockey (14)
Sydney Baldwin
Hannah Brandt
Dani Cameranesi
Kelsey Cline
Paige Haley
Amanda Kessel
Amanda Leveille
Kelly Pannek
Sidney Peters
Cara Piazza
Nine Rodgers
Kate Schipper
Lee Stecklein
Megan Wolfe
Rowing (29)
Emily Appold
Haley Bagley
Margaret Bieber
Alyssa Chuâ€Tom
Anna Cruse
Maura Dahl
Sonia Dunkelbarger
Jessica Flakne
Jaime Friscia
Taylor Gainey
Lauren Gonsalves
Anna Greene
Abigail Hauser
Caleigh Hensley
Joyce Jollands
Madison Koch
Rebecca Lovick
Kortney Luedloff
McKenzie Lukacs
Abigail Lundstrom
Allison Martinez
Lauren Miller
Sara Scarbro
Kersten Schwanz
Maighdlin Shaughnessy
Allison Sterneman
Emily Stock
Kristina Swanson
Lisa Weeks
Women's Tennis (6)
Alexandra Bergman
Julia Courter
Paula Rinconâ€Otero
Caroline Ryba
Mehvish Safdar
Maja Vujic
Women's Track & Field (29)
Alex Beckman
Amanda Beckman
Liz Berkholtz
Keâ€ke Burks
Melissa Cabak
Caitlin Dillon
Emerald Egwim
Agnes Esser
Kelly Flynn
Kimberly Golding
Angie Guenther
Erin Hawkins
Allie Heifort
Haley Johnson
Kat Keller
Jess Lehman
Ally McSherry
Taylor Mikkalson
Paige Peschel
Jamie Piepenburg
Kiley Sabin
Kate Shelerud
Emma Spagnola
Madeline Strandemo
Stacey Swatek
Lyndsey Thorpe
Heta Tuuri
Kaila Urick
Audra Winter
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