WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue Athletics Department had 71 student-athletes earn Academic All-Big Ten honors Wednesday as announced by the conference office, the Boilermakers' largest total since putting 71 on the team in the fall of 2014. To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must be members of a 2018-19 winter sport, be enrolled full-time for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
With 69 Academic All-Big Ten honorees in the fall the Boilermakers' 2018-19 total grows to 140, their largest number on record. Purdue women's swimming and diving nearly had its entire roster named to the list, putting a program-record 31 of its 38 student-athletes on the all-academic team, while men's swimming and diving added 17 student-athletes and wrestling put 13 on the squad, its highest total on record.
Ten of the 15 NCAA qualifiers for the swimming and diving programs are on the Academic All-Big Ten list, including conference champion Brandon Loschiavo and Purdue record-setters Joe Young and Trent Pellini on the men's side, and Big Ten medalist Emily Meaney and school-record holder Taite Kitchel for the women.
Five of the eight wresters heading to Pittsburgh for the NCAA Championships this week earned Academic All-Big Ten honors as well, headlined by junior Dylan Lydy who earned the No. 11 overall seed at 174 pounds. Redshirt seniors Jacob Aven and Ben Thornton earn their fourth career conference academic honors.
The Big Ten regular season champion men's basketball squad had four players on the list, including the conference's leading shot blocker in sophomore Matt Haarms, while junior Dominique Oden and sophomore Tamara Farquhar headlined a list of six women's basketball players on the team.
Men's Basketball (4)
Grady Eifert
Matt Haarms
Tommy Luce
Sasha Stefanovic
Men's Swimming & Diving (17)
Joe Cifelli
Joe Gardner
Gabi Gomez Treig
Jake Heidecker
Steele Johnson
Erik Juliusson
Kiki Komlenic
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Brandon Loschiavo
Gavin McCulloch
Nick McDowell
Trent Pellini
Will Schrensky
Michael Smith
Dale Williams*
Joe Young
Women's Basketball (6)
Abby Abel
Léony Boudreau*
Fatou Diagne
Tamara Farquhar
Nora Kiesler
Dominique Oden
Women's Swimming & Diving (31)
Danielle Auckley
Emily Bretscher
Caylee Casbon
Alex Clarke
Emily Converse
Gretta DeCoursey
Cady Farlow
Anna Giesler
Roxy Griffore
Katie Hughes
Megan Johnson*
Evan King
Riley Kishman
Taite Kitchel
Courtney Kresl
Kelsey Macaddino
Kate May
Emily Meaney
Morgan Meixner
Paige Miller
Natalie Mudd
Natalie Myers
Angela Pan
Jinq En Phee
Breanna Robinson
Cally Sampson
Cassidy Sampson
Maizie Seidl
Jackie Smailis
Reagan Thom
Lexi Vincent
Wrestling (13)
Jacob Aven
Jack Cheney
Elijah Davis
Jared Florell
Nate Limmex
Dylan Lydy
Max Lyon
Jon Morales
Bjorn Schroeder
Austin Singer
Ben Thornton
Alec White
Cole Wysocki
* - 4.0 grade point average
With 69 Academic All-Big Ten honorees in the fall the Boilermakers' 2018-19 total grows to 140, their largest number on record. Purdue women's swimming and diving nearly had its entire roster named to the list, putting a program-record 31 of its 38 student-athletes on the all-academic team, while men's swimming and diving added 17 student-athletes and wrestling put 13 on the squad, its highest total on record.
Ten of the 15 NCAA qualifiers for the swimming and diving programs are on the Academic All-Big Ten list, including conference champion Brandon Loschiavo and Purdue record-setters Joe Young and Trent Pellini on the men's side, and Big Ten medalist Emily Meaney and school-record holder Taite Kitchel for the women.
Five of the eight wresters heading to Pittsburgh for the NCAA Championships this week earned Academic All-Big Ten honors as well, headlined by junior Dylan Lydy who earned the No. 11 overall seed at 174 pounds. Redshirt seniors Jacob Aven and Ben Thornton earn their fourth career conference academic honors.
The Big Ten regular season champion men's basketball squad had four players on the list, including the conference's leading shot blocker in sophomore Matt Haarms, while junior Dominique Oden and sophomore Tamara Farquhar headlined a list of six women's basketball players on the team.
Men's Basketball (4)
Grady Eifert
Matt Haarms
Tommy Luce
Sasha Stefanovic
Men's Swimming & Diving (17)
Joe Cifelli
Joe Gardner
Gabi Gomez Treig
Jake Heidecker
Steele Johnson
Erik Juliusson
Kiki Komlenic
Ryan Lawrence
Grant Lewis
Brandon Loschiavo
Gavin McCulloch
Nick McDowell
Trent Pellini
Will Schrensky
Michael Smith
Dale Williams*
Joe Young
Women's Basketball (6)
Abby Abel
Léony Boudreau*
Fatou Diagne
Tamara Farquhar
Nora Kiesler
Dominique Oden
Women's Swimming & Diving (31)
Danielle Auckley
Emily Bretscher
Caylee Casbon
Alex Clarke
Emily Converse
Gretta DeCoursey
Cady Farlow
Anna Giesler
Roxy Griffore
Katie Hughes
Megan Johnson*
Evan King
Riley Kishman
Taite Kitchel
Courtney Kresl
Kelsey Macaddino
Kate May
Emily Meaney
Morgan Meixner
Paige Miller
Natalie Mudd
Natalie Myers
Angela Pan
Jinq En Phee
Breanna Robinson
Cally Sampson
Cassidy Sampson
Maizie Seidl
Jackie Smailis
Reagan Thom
Lexi Vincent
Wrestling (13)
Jacob Aven
Jack Cheney
Elijah Davis
Jared Florell
Nate Limmex
Dylan Lydy
Max Lyon
Jon Morales
Bjorn Schroeder
Austin Singer
Ben Thornton
Alec White
Cole Wysocki
* - 4.0 grade point average