Several Big Ten Conference and University awards were presented at the 2022 UI Athletics Senior Student-Athlete Reception Friday afternoon at Kinnick Stadium.
Tyler Linderbaum (football) and Manuela Lizarazu (women’s golf) were named Iowa’s Big Ten Medal of Honor recipients, Matt Fagan (football) and Tomi Taiwo (women’s basketball) were awarded Big Ten Post-Graduate Scholarships, Nia Britt (women’s track and field) and Wayne Lawrence, Jr. (men’s track and field) earned the Center for Inclusive Academic Excellence Student Leadership Award, and Michael Kemerer (wrestling) and Riley Whitaker (soccer) earned the University’s Robert F. Ray Faculty Award.
The Big Ten Medal of Honor is the conference’s most exclusive award, and the first of its kind in intercollegiate athletics to recognize academic and athletic excellence. The Big Ten Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1915 to one male and one female student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had “attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work.”
Linderbaum is an enterprise leadership major from Solon, Iowa. He earned unanimous consensus All-America honors at center for the Hawkeyes in 2022, becoming the 12th Hawkeye to earn that distinction. Linderbaum became Iowa’s first recipient of the Rimington Trophy. He was also named the Rimington-Pace Big Ten Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year while earning first-team All-Big Ten honors for the second straight season. Linderbaum started 35 consecutive games at center for the Hawkeyes after playing as a defensive lineman as a true freshman. He was one of four finalists for the Rotary Lombardi Award, one of three finalists for the Outland Trophy, and a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. Linderbaum was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft – 25th pick overall – last month.
Lizarazu is a double major in Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering from Bogota,…
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