WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A record 77 winter sport Purdue student-athletes were named to the Academic All-Big Ten Team for posting grade point average of 3.0 or better.
The total topped the previous record of 72 set last year. It marked the third straight winter campaign with 70 or more honorees from Purdue. The Boilermakers are now up to 124 total student-athletes on the fall and winter all-academic teams combined.
Trey Kaufman-Renn from men’s basketball and Hayden Filipovich from wrestling earned the honor for the fourth time in their career. Fifteen student-athletes garnered the recognition for the third time in their careers, 22 were two-time recipiences and 38 made their debut on the academic list.
Women’s swimming and diving topped the charts with 27 honorees, bettering its total by one from last year. Men’s swimming and diving tallied 22 recipients.
Sophomore swimmer Caroline Frazier was one of 30 student-athletes across the Big Ten to have a perfect 4.0 GPA.
To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, students must be on a varsity team (as verified by being on the official squad list as of March 1 for fall sports), have been enrolled full time at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
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The Big Ten Conference had 1,127 total student-athletes recognized on the Academic All-Big Ten list. The list of honorees includes 83 men’s and 119 women’s basketball students, 98 men’s ice hockey students, 59 men’s and 146 women’s gymnastics students, 154 men’s and 251 women’s swim and dive students, and 217 wrestling students.
Full listing of Purdue's Winter Academic All-Big Ten Honorees and Majors by Sport
(Years in parentheses are those in which he or she was Academic All-Big Ten)
MEN’S BASKETBALL (8)
- Jack Benter – Organizational Leadership (2026)
- Raleigh Burgess – Integrated Business Engineering (2026)
- Daniel Jacobsen – Selling and Sales Management (2026)
- Trey Kaufman-Renn – Philosophy (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023)
- Fletcher Loyer – Organizational Leadership (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Sam King – Management / Finance (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Jack Lusk – Organizational Leadership (2026)
- Jace Rayl – Kinesiology (2026)
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (3)
- McKenna Layden – Financial Counseling/Planning (2026, 2025)
- Lana McCarthy – Organizational Leadership (2026)
- Madison Layden-Zay – M.S. in Business Administration (2026)
MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (22)
- Chris Bartmess – Construction Management (2026)
- Maxwell Blume – General Management / Biomedical Health Sciences (2026, 2025)
- Pat Broderick – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- Dylan Burau – Chemical Engineering (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Cooper Callahan – Mechanical Engineering (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Gabe Eschbach – Mechanical Engineering Technology (2026, 2025)
- Brody Friend – Electrical Engineering (2026, 2025)
- Holden Higbie – Finance (2026, 2025)
- Will Jost – Finance (2026)
- Mason Kajfosz – Mechanical Engineering Technology (2026, 2025)
- Andy Kelly – Industrial Engineering (2026)
- Charles Lee – General Management (2026)
- Gio Mango – Mechanical Engineering (2026)
- Walker Mattice – Mechanical Engineering (2026)
- Dom Mazurek – Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (2026)
- Max Miller – General Management (2026, 2025)
- Blake Rowe – Finance (2026)
- Kaden Springfield – Marketing (2026)
- Zach Welsh – Finance (2026)
- Sam White – Civil Engineering (2026)
- Raymond Whittaker – Electrical Engineering (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Tyler Wills – Retail Management (2026)
WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING (27)
- Grace Ackerman – Supply Chain and Operations Management (2026)
- Mya Bailey – Selling and Sales Management (2026)
- Brooklyn Beauch – Biomedical Health Sciences – Pre-Med (2026)
- Kelsey Cooper – Brian and Behavioral Science (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Ava Fasano – Integrated Business & Engineering (2026, 2025)
- Caroline Frazier – Environmental and Ecological Engineering (2026)
- Brinly Hardy – General Management (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Caitlin Hurley – Industrial Engineering (2026, 2025)
- Keira Kask – Biomedical Health Sciences – Pre-Dental (2026, 2025)
- Abbie Kehmeier – Public Relations and Strategic Communications (2026, 2025)
- Susie Lee – Statistics (2026)
- Ashley Lund – Nursing (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Grace Lux – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- Abby Marcukaitis – Supply Chain and Operations Management / Marketing (2026, 2025)
- Reagan Mattice – Chemical Engineering (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Ruth Anne McCranie – Retain Management (2026)
- Ripley Merritt – Biomedical Health Sciences – Pre-Physician Assistant (2026)
- Kate Mouser – Professional Flight Technology / Aviation (2026, 2025)
- Maddie Phillips – Kinesiology – Sports Medicine (2026)
- Lara Phipps – Biomedical Health Sciences (2026)
- Kaia Podlin – Kinesiology (2026)
- Ana Rojas – M.S. in Public Health (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Adele Sands – Kinesiology (2026)
- Campbell Scofield – Biological Engineering (2026)
- Kaitlin Simons – Biomedical Engineering (2026, 2025)
- Avery Worobel – Public Relations and Strategic Communications (2026)
- Daryn Wright – Retail Management (2026, 2025, 2024)
WRESTLING (17) - Brody Baumann – General Management (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Joey Blaze – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- Gavin Brown – Economics (2026)
- Dominic Burgett – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- Greyson Clark – Finance (2026, 2025)
- Hayden Filipovich – M.S. in Finance (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023)
- Quinn Herbert – Industrial Engineering (2026)
- Ashton Jackson – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- Wyatt Krejsa – Selling and Sales Management (2026)
- Kade Law - Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Jacob Macatangay – Kinesiology (2026, 2025)
- Keagan Martin – Hospitality and Tourism Management (2026)
- Ethan Popp – Mechanical Engineering Technology (2026)
- Isaiah Quintero – Selling and Sales Management (2026)
- Jaden Reynolds – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025)
- James Rowley – Law and Society (2026, 2025, 2024)
- Isaac Ruble – Selling and Sales Management (2026, 2025, 2024)