Twenty-Three Terps Named B1G Distinguished Scholars

ROSEMONT, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference announced on Wednesday that 23 Maryland students competing in intercollegiate athletics have earned the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. The list includes students from men's basketball, field hockey, football, women's gymnastics, men's and women's lacrosse, women's soccer, softball, women's tennis, track & field, volleyball and wrestling programs who have recorded a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.

The 2014-15 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes three students who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term, including Zoe Stukenberg (women's lacrosse), Nikki Chung (gymnastics) and Olga Bredikhina (women's tennis). This group of honorees is pursuing diverse fields of study with a list of majors that include neurobiology and physiology, biological sciences, chemical engineering, finance, journalism, kinesiology, studio art and several others.

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. A total of 770 Big Ten students were tabbed to the list.

Name Sport Major Hometown
Varun Ram Men's Basketball Neurobiology and Physiology Clarksville, MD
Sarah Sprink Field Hockey Communication Neuss, Germany
P.J. Gallo Football Finance Holland, PA
Adam Greene Football Finance Arnold, MD
Nikki Chung Women's Gymnastics Letter & Sciences Perth, Australia
Sarah Faller Women's Gymnastics Studio Art Raleigh, NC
Shannon Skochko Women's Gymnastics Biological Sciences Perkiomenville, PA
Michael McCarney Men's Lacrosse Finance Dallas, TX
Megan Douty Women's Lacrosse Kinesiology Fair Haven, NJ
Alexandra McKay Women's Lacrosse Computer Science Ellicott City, MD
Zoe Stukenberg Women's Lacrosse Biological Sciences Ellicott City, MD
Caroline Wannen Women's Lacrosse Accounting Silver Spring, MD
Alex Anthony Women's Soccer Sociology Littleton, CO
Rachelle Beanlands Women's Soccer Biological Sciences/Environmental Science Ottawa, Ontario
Sarah Fichtner Women's Soccer Psychology Toms River, NJ
Shade Pratt Women's Soccer Individual Studies Rosemount, MN
Kaitlyn Schmeiser Softball Studio Art Dunkirk, MD
Nataliya Bredikhina Women's Tennis French Language and Literature Moscow, Russia
Olga Bredikhina Women's Tennis French Language and Literature Moscow Russia
Myah Hicks Women's Track and Field Kinesiology Alexandria, VA
Catherine Sheffo Women's Track and Field Journalism Dubois, PA
Emily Fraik Women's Volleyball Chemical Engineering Wyoming, OH
Joshua Polacek Wrestling Biological Sciences Johnstown, PA
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