Forty-nine Terps Earn Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Honors
7/23/2025 1:00:00 PM | Baseball, Field Hockey, Football, Men's Golf, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer, Softball, Track & Field, Women's Cross Country, Women's Golf, Women's Lacrosse, Women's Soccer, Wrestling, Gymnastics, Volleyball, The Barry & Mary Gossett Center for Acad
ROSEMONT, IL – The Big Ten Conference announced that 49 Maryland student-athletes competing in intercollegiate athletics were named Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award recipients for 2024-25.
The list includes student-athletes from 16 different teams who have recorded a minimum grade-point average (GPA) 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. Similar to the Academic All-Big Ten honor, Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution. However, the Distinguished Scholar Award encompasses only students with a minimum GPA of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year, excluding summer school. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student's academic career.
The list includes student-athletes from 16 different teams who have recorded a minimum grade-point average (GPA) 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. Similar to the Academic All-Big Ten honor, Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution. However, the Distinguished Scholar Award encompasses only students with a minimum GPA of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year, excluding summer school. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student's academic career.
2024-25 BIG TEN DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS
| Jacob Orr | Baseball | Senior | Finance | Frederick, MD |
| Ryne Acheson | Football | Junior | Computer Science | Potomac, MD |
| Isaac Bunyun | Football | Grad Student | Management Studies | Accra, Ghana |
| Rex Fleming | Football | Grad Student | Technology & Entrepreneurship | Owings, MD |
| Ethan Gough | Football | Senior | Criminal Justice | Owings, MD |
| Eli Mason | Football | Grad Student | Management Studies | Ashburn, VA |
| Florian Huerlimann | Men's Golf | Senior | Finance | Heidelberg, Germany |
| Colin Burlace | Men's Lacrosse | Senior | Marketing | Edgewater, MD |
| Eliot Dubick | Men's Lacrosse | Junior | Marketing | Potomac, MD |
| Shea Keethler | Men's Lacrosse | Senior | Finance | Upper Arlington, OH |
| Charlie Koras | Men's Lacrosse | Senior | Finance | Lutherville, MD |
| Mitchell Lloyd | Men's Lacrosse | Junior | Kinesiology | Moorestown, NJ |
| Will Schaller | Men's Lacrosse | Junior | Philosophy, Politics, Economics | Bel Air, MD |
| Eric Albright | Men's Outdoor Track | Senior | Mechanical Engineering | Glen Mills, PA |
| Rhys Allen | Men's Outdoor Track | Junior | Economics | Southampton, England |
| Anthony Petrillo | Men's Outdoor Track | Senior | Kinesiology | East Setauket, NY |
| Max Worley | Men's Outdoor Track | Grad Student | Fire Engineering | Takoma Park, MD |
| Alex Nitzl | Men's Soccer | Grad Student | Information Systems | Munich, Germany |
| Sam O'Brian | Men's Wrestling | Senior | English and German | Damascus, MD |
| Rubie Goffena | Cross Country | Junior | Kinesiology | Hampstead, MD |
| Kirstin Nichols | Cross Country | Grad Student | Public Health | Crofton, MD |
| Emma Pegg | Cross Country | Senior | Kinesiology | Chatham, Ontario |
| Katerina Talanova | Cross Country | Senior | Computer Science | Ellicott City, MD |
| Reese Delp | Field Hockey | Junior | Economics | Kent Island, MD |
| Paige Kieft | Field Hockey | Senior | Environmental Science | Newtown Square, PA |
| Panassaya Somchit | Women's Golf | Senior | Economics | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Lindsay Bacheler | Gymnastics | Senior | Kinesiology | Raleigh, NC |
| Tasha Brozowski | Gymnastics | Senior | Public Health | Angier, NC |
| Victoria Gatzendorfer | Gymnastics | Senior | Management | Marvin, NC |
| Josephine Kogler | Gymnastics | Senior | Public Health | Centereach, NY |
| Sierra Kondo | Gymnastics | Senior | Physiology and Neurobiology | Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Rhea LeBlanc | Gymnastics | Senior | Communications | Waltham, MA |
| Taylor Rech | Gymnastics | Junior | Human Development | Milton, GA |
| Alexa Rothenbuescher | Gymnastics | Grad Student | Public Health | Fairfax, VA |
| Kori Edmondson | Women's Lacrosse | Junior | Criminal Justice | Severn, MD |
| Sophie Halus | Women's Lacrosse | Senior | Sociology | Chapel Hill, NC |
| Jordyn Lipkin | Women's Lacrosse | Senior | Kinesiology | Short Hills, NJ |
| Celia Pell | Women's Lacrosse | R-Junior | Catonsville, MD | |
| Nyla Cherry | Women's Outdoor Track | Junior | Journalism | Randallstown, MD |
| Madison Depry | Women's Outdoor Track | Senior | French | Silver Spring, MD |
| Rubie Goffena | Women's Outdoor Track | Junior | Kinesiology | Hampstead, MD |
| Emma Pegg | Women's Outdoor Track | Senior | Kinesiology | Chatham, Ontario |
| Katerina Talanova | Women's Outdoor Track | Senior | Computer Science | Ellicott City, MD |
| Symone Jenson | Women's Soccer | Junior | Fire Engineering | Glenelg, MD |
| Ava Morales | Women's Soccer | Junior | Physiology and Neurobiology | Old Bridge, NJ |
| Eva Mowery | Women's Soccer | Junior | Biology | Arnold, MD |
| Mazie MacFarlane | Softball | Grad Student | Public Health | Rocklin, CA |
| Sammi Woods | Softball | Junior | Marketing | Trabuco Canyon, CA |
| Sam Csire | Volleyball | Senior | Public Health | Strongsville, OH |
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