MADISON, Wis. — The Big Ten named 115 Wisconsin student-athletes to the Distinguished Scholar Award list, having earned 127 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award honors (including multi-sport honorees), the conference office announced on Monday. The list includes students from 23 UW sports who earned a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.

The Women's Track and Field team led the way, earning 24 awards (15 students, including nine multi-spot athletes). They joined four additional sports to hit the double-digit mark, including Men's Track and Field, Women's Swim and Dive, Women's Rowing and Women's Lightweight Rowing.

The Badgers' 2024-25 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 29 students who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic year.

The full list can be found here. 

Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year, excluding any summer grades. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student's academic career.

Learn more about the 358 Fall, Winter, Spring and At-Large Academic All-Big Ten honorees.