22 student athletes from a variety of majors have earned the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. These students have a grade-point average of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.
Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at UNL.
The recipients are:
- Sanjaya Roy, psychology
- Chris Stephenson, biological sciences
- Jennie Laeng, psychology
- Alexandrea Lorentz, political science and sociology
- Sydney Townsend, chemistry
- Caroline Flynn, communication studies *
- Jaylyn Odermann, communication studies
- Lotte Sjulin, biological sciences
- Madi Unzicker, psychology
- Austen Urness, psychology
- Taryn Collura, psychology and film studies
- Michaela Cunningham, biological sciences and mathematics *
- Krista Van Wie, psychology
- Mackenna Maddox-Herr, geography
- Katerina Matysova, psychology
- Cam Holmes, biological sciences
- Karlye Cygan, biological sciences
- Angela Mercurio, biochemistry *
- Karolina Pahlitzsch, psychology
- Morgan Smith, psychology
- Austin Wilson, biological sciences
More details are available on the Big Ten Conference's website.
* indicates a 4.0 GPA
