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 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
Jack Frank, Finance
Dillon Kark, Communications
Brian Martin, Community Leadership & Strategy
Casey Mayes, Communications
Dominic Pianto, Accounting
Nick Powers, Advertising Management
Brock Vradenburg, Advertising Management
Christian Williams, Kinesiology
Men's Basketball
Joey Hauser, Sport Coaching & Leadership
Jason Whitens, Sport Coaching & Leadership
Women's Basketball
Matilda Ekh, Business
Jayla James, Lifelong Education
Taiyier Parks, Public Relations
Brooklyn Rewers, Creative Advertising
Field Hockey
Jillian Bonczewski, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities
Ashley Harlock, Neuroscience
Monique Jardell, Kinesiology
Hannah Jarvie, Communications
Eliza Kreske, Social Relations and Policy
Emma O'Neill, Special Ed & Learning Disabilities
Valerie Radvany, Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science
Celina Riccardo, Communications
Kim Smit, Criminal Justice
Ellie Wheatley, Supply Chain Management
Football
Sam Edwards, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy
Maverick Hansen, Hospitality Business
Jackson Morse, Accounting
Darius Snow, Graphic Design
Men's Golf
Parker Jamieson, Finance
Women's Golf
Shannon Kennedy, Communication
Katie Lu, Business
Leila Raines, Public Relations
Nina Rissi, Supply Chain Management
Valentina Rossi, Business
Gymnastics
Baleigh Garcia, Kinesiology
Sydney Hayashi, Kinesiology
Lauren Hsu, Kinesiology
Jori Jackard, Psychology
Giana Kalefe, Advertising Management
Genevieve Lebster, Engineering
Nyah Smith, Human Capital and Society
Gabrielle Stephen, Criminal Justice
Hockey
Cal Dybicz, Supply Chain Management
AJ Hodges, Finance
Rowing
Julie Armstrong, Communication
Breanna Berry, Digital Storytelling
Kat Borders, Human Biology
Maggie Carless, Human Development
Kendall Carlin, Finance
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 Science
Claudia Kingma, Kinesiology
Victoria Mills, Neuroscience
Colby Orcutt, Kinesiology
Olivia Portner, Environmental Engineering
Avery Rugg, Agribusiness Management
Mackenzie Rugg, Kinesiology
Sophia Stauffer, Neuroscience
Grace Thomas, Kinesiology
Olivia Tolkinen, Communication
Caroline Williams, Criminal Justice
Men's Soccer
Jack Beck, Supply Chain Management
Conner George, Human Capital and Society
Zac Kelly, Crop and Soil Science
Kellan Landefeld, Finance
Women's Soccer
Ally Childers, Kinesiology
Raegan Cox, Marketing
Sierra Curtis, Public Relations
Ruby Diodati, Global Health
Celia Gaynor, Communications Science & Disorders
Justina Gaynor, Kinesiology
Belle Okoroafo, Kinesiology
Bria Schrotenboer, Kinesiology
Kelly Severini, Advertising Management
Samantha White, Supply Chain Management
Softball
Faith Guidry, Human Biology
Macy Lee, Criminal Justice
Ashley Miller, Finance
Jenae Wash, Criminal Justice
Men's Tennis
Luke Baylis, Psychology
Anthony Pero, Mechanical Engineering
Josh Portnoy, Physiology
Women's Tennis
Monique Karoub, Human Biology
Tia Mukherjee, Supply Chain Management
Men's Track & Field/Cross Country
Nathan Larson, Kinesiology
Andrew Nolan, Applied Engineering Science
Jack Pennewell, Environmental Engineering
Alexander Penski, Social Relations and Policy
Luke Perelli, Computer Engineering
Tyler Pritchett, Applied Engineering Science
Aden Smith, Human Biology
Joshua Smith, Kinesiology
Heath Baldwin, Information Science
Michael Davenport, Sport Coaching and Leadership
Jalen Jackson, Biomedical Laboratory Science
Noah Sage, Information Science
Trey Searles, Construction Management
Ryan Talbot, Kinesiology
Dylan Terryberry, Economics
Brendan Vander Meer, Business
Women's Track & Field/Cross Country
Lizzie Babcock, Horticulture
Julia Bajt, Biology
Emily Bardwell, Zoology
Abbey Carvey, Neuroscience
Lauren Freeland, Apparel and Textile Design
Eleanor Kendell, Marketing
Abigail Lee, Human Biology
Annika Linzmeier, Clinical Social Work
Sophia Lucki, Human Biology
Avery McLean, Information Science
Katie Osika, Communications
Tess Piper, Dietetics
Madison Price, Environmental Engineering
Judith Rector, History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
Makenna Veen, Kinesiology
Taylor Visscher, Supply Chain Management
Alison Ziehl, Human Biology
Lexy Alston, Journalism
Nala Barlow, Organizations & Community Leadership
Shakira Dancy, Strategic Communication
Janan Khalil, Packaging
Valadian Pallett, Genomics & Molecular Genetics
Volleyball
Julia Bishop, Computational Data Science
Wrestling
Cameron Caffey, Cybercrime and Digital Investigation
Luke Daly, Business
Rayvon Foley, Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science
Andy Hampton, Business
Marty Larkin, Kinesiology
This story originally appeared on msuspartans.com.
