WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Athletics produced 90 Academic All-Big Ten spring honorees for the second year in a row, helping the department set another record with 265 total honors for the 2021-22 school year.

The Boilermakers had a record 107 Academic All-Big Ten honorees in the fall and 68 in the winter. The spring season has been very consistent the last few years, producing 92 honorees in the spring of 2021 and 89 the year prior. Both totals were a spring record at the time.

To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten, student-athletes must be enrolled full-time at their university for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition is based on a 3.7-plus yearly or cumulative GPA for sophomores and above. Those honorees will be announced later this summer.

Track & field led the way with a combined 43 Academic All-Big Ten honorees this spring – 22 from the women's roster and 21 from the men's side. Baseball contributed 19, softball added 11, men's golf had seven honorees, women's golf six, and two apiece from each of the tennis programs.

Runners Ian Hunter, Mya Haggerty and Tessa Sheets as well as baseball player Troy Viola earned special recognition for maintaining flawless 4.0 cumulative GPAs.

Thirty of the 90 Academic All-Big Ten honorees from the spring earned the distinction for at least third time. Among that group, golfers Cole Bradley, Joe Weiler and Inez Wanamarta as well as runners Curt Eckstein and Megan Slamkowski plus pole vaulter Tessa Sheets were four-year honorees.
 

3-TIME ACADEMIC ALL-BIG TEN HONOREES Seniors/fifth-year student-athletes to be recognized at least 3 times For track & field, 3-year honorees exclude additional honors from cross country
BASEBALL • Ricky Castro • Tanner Haston • Eric Hildebrand • Ryan Howe • Tyler Powers • Jackson Smeltz MEN'S TRACK & FIELD • Justin Becker • Curt Eckstein (4x) • Alec Fleming • Ian Hunter • Ife Oketona • John Pieper • Blake Selm MEN'S GOLF • Cole Bradley (4x) • Joe Weiler (4x)	SOFTBALL • Rachel Becker • Kendall Chase • Kiara Dillon • Alex Echazarreta • Kaeley Hallada • Becca Jones • Rylee Platusic • Sydney Preston • Brenna Smith • Kasey Wilhoit WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD • Mackenzie Barrett • Kaia Harris • Anna Morozov • Tessa Sheets (4x) • Megan Slamkowski (4x) WOMEN'S GOLF • Inez Wanamarta (4x)

Altogether, 56 of the 90 Boilermakers (62%) recognized this month are now multi-year Academic All-Big Ten honorees. Softball had nine of its 11 (82%) honorees on the list for at least the second time and both of the men's tennis players recognized were repeat Academic All-Big Ten student-athletes.

The Big Ten Conference recognized a record total of 2,293 student-athletes as Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the spring and at-large sports season. That total includes 674 from track & field, 189 from baseball, 186 from softball, 166 from golf, 143 from tennis, and 935 from the sports that Purdue does not sponsor.

Full listing of Purdue's fall Academic All-Big Ten Honorees and majors by sport
(Years in parentheses are those in which he or she was Academic All-Big Ten)
Names in bold have compiled 4.0 cumulative GPAs

BASEBALL (19 – UP FROM 16 IN 2021)
• Ricky Castro – Kinesiology (2021, 2020)
• Pat Clohisy – Organizational Leadership
• Avery Cook – Organizational Leadership (2021)
• Logan Danzeisen – Finance
• Jack Firestone – Financial Counseling & Planning (2021)
• Weston Gingerich – Selling & Sales Management
• Tanner Haston – Biomedical Health Sciences, Pre-Dentistry (2021, 2020)
• Eric Hildebrand – Supply Chain & Sales Engineering Technology (2021, 2020)
• Ryan Howe – Mechanical Engineering (2021, 2020)
• Pablo Lanzarote – Sociology
• Griffin Lohman – Supply Chain & Sales Leadership Technology
• Tyler Powers – Master's in Technology Leadership & Innovation (2021, 2020)
• Jackson Smeltz – Agribusiness (2021, 2020)
• Jake Stadler – Communications
• Cam Thompson – Organizational Leadership (2021)
• Paul Toetz – Communications
• CJ Valdez – Selling & Sales Management
• Troy Viola – Master's in Technology Leadership & Innovation
• Wyatt Wendell – Selling & Sales Management

MEN'S GOLF (7 – UP FROM 4 IN 2021)
• Cole Bradley – Finance (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018)
• Nick Dentino – Accounting (2021)
• Andrew Farraye – Finance (2021)
• Nic Hofman – Selling & Sales Management
• Luke Prall – Management / Accounting
• Herman Sekne – Marketing
• Joe Weiler – Industrial Engineering (2021, 2020, 2019)

WOMEN'S GOLF (6)
• Daniela Ballesteros – Finance (2021)
• Jocelyn Bruch – General Management
• Kan Bunnabodee – Finance (2021)
• Ashley Kozlowski – Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering
• Sifat Sagoo – Organizational Leadership (2021)
• Inez Wanamarta – Master's in Human Resource Management (2021, 2020, 2019)

SOFTBALL (11)
• Rachel Becker – Chemical Engineering (2021, 2020)
• Kendall Chase – Health Science Pre-Professional (2021, 2020)
• Kiara Dillon – General Management
• Alex Echazarreta – Psychological Sciences (2021, 2020)
• Kiersen George – Biomedical Health Sciences
• Kaeley Hallada – Elementary Education (2021, 2020)
• Becca Jones – Kinesiology (2021, 2020)
• Rylee Platusic – Selling & Sales Management (2021, 2020)
• Sydney Preston – Communications (2021, 2020)
• Brenna Smith – Psychological Sciences (2021, 2020)
• Kasey Wilhoit – Agronomy (2021, 2020)

MEN'S TENNIS (2)
• Tomasz Dudek – Industrial Management (2021)
• Andre Suzanne – Physics (2021)

WOMEN'S TENNIS (2)
• Csilla Fodor – Hospitality & Tourism Management
• Nathalia Wolf Gasparin – Selling & Sales Management (2021)

MEN'S TRACK & FIELD (21)
• Justin Becker – General Management (2021, 2020)
• Andrew Brandt – Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering (2021)
• Curt Eckstein – Marketing (2021, 2020, 2019)
• Alec Fleming – Civil Engineering (2021, 2020)
• Alex Frey – Computer Science
• Tamar Greene – Aviation Management
• Brady Hawks – Industrial Design
• Ian Hunter – Computer Science (2021, 2020)
• Bryce Hutchinson – Chemical Engineering (2021)
• Henry H.L. Lewis – Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering
• Isaiah Martin – Psychological Sciences (2021)
• Ife Oketona – Finance (2021, 2020)
• John Pieper – Environmental & Ecological Engineering (2021, 2020)
• Ryan Ruppert – Biology
• Logan Sandlin – Mechanical Engineering
• Blake Selm – Chemical Engineering (2021, 2020)
• Ian Shaw – Environmental Geoscience (2021)
• Luke Upton – Selling & Sales Management (2021)
• Johnny Vanos – Kinesiology (2021, 2020)
• William White – Computer Science (2021)
• Caleb Williams – Animation

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD (22)
• Lindsay Absher – Interior Design (2021)
• Mackenzie Barrett – Kinesiology (2021, 2020)
• Jessica Bray – Health Science Pre-Professional (2021)
• Naomi Campbell – Accounting
• Jayla Ellis – Chemical Engineering (2021)
• Gabriele Green – Brain & Behavioral Sciences
• Mya Hagerty – Brain & Behavioral Sciences
• Kaia Harris – Marketing (2021, 2020)
• Meagan Hathaway – Health Science Pre-Professional (2021)
• Caroline Jordan – Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology
• Emma Keesling – Biological Engineering (2021)
• Leah Keesling – Food Science
• Anna Morozov – Kinesiology (2021, 2020)
• Deborah Obadofin – Biology
• Kerris Roberts – Mathematics Education (2021)
• Tessa Sheets – Animal Science (2021, 2020, 2019)
• Megan Slamkowski – Kinesiology (2021, 2020, 2019)
• Ellie Tate – Aviation Management (2021)
• Emma Tate – Plant Science (2021)
• Payne Turney – Biochemistry
• Katelyn Wasson – Brain & Behavioral Sciences / Applied Statistics
• Alexis Zatta – Communication & Leadership