Construction engineering student Brett Otterbacher (middle), made nationals for the 4x400m indoor and was on the indoor B1G Champion 4x400m team.

Twenty-one College of Engineering students are among 106 Purdue University student-athletes who earned Academic All-Big Ten accolades in the spring 2025 sports season.

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.

Purdue Engineering spring 2025 Academic All-Big Ten honorees (years in parentheses indicate repeat honorees):

Men’s Track & Field 

• Cale Ayers – Chemical Engineering (2023, 2024)
• Grant Gogel – Mechanical Engineering (2023, 2024)
• Joel Gomez – Civil Engineering (2024)
• Collin Kao – Biological Engineering
• Quntin Lowe – Environmental & Natural Resource Engineering 
• Brett Otterbacher – Construction Engineering (2023, 2024)
• Jason Polydoris – Mechanical Engineering (2023)
• Logan Sandlin – Master's in Interdisciplinary Engineering (2023, 2024)

Women’s Track & Field 

• Meredith Bloss – Master's in Mechanical Engineering
• Kylie Graf – Biomedical Engineering
• Sofia Muñez – Mechanical Engineering
• Melissa Riegle  – Electrical Engineering 
• Katherine Rumsey – Mechanical Engineering (2024)
• Emma Squires – Industrial Engineering (2023, 2024)
• Ally Wigland – Biological Engineering
• Nia Wilson – Civil Engineering 

Men's Tennis 

• Daniel Labrador – Civil Engineering (2023, 2024)

Womens's Tennis 

• Carmen Gallardo Guevara – Industrial Engineering (2024)

Womens's Golf

• Caroline Dasch – Industrial Engineering
• Alison Hildebrand – Mechanical Engineering (2024)
• Lana Malek – Biological Engineering