WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Athletics continued to make the grade as student-athletes from the fall sports season produced 89 Academic All-Big Ten honors for their academic excellence in the classroom.
Purdue set a department record during the 2021-22 school year with 265 Academic All-Big Ten honorees, including 107 from the fall season, plus 72 Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.
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. Big Ten Distinguished Scholar recognition is based on a 3.7-plus yearly or cumulative GPA for sophomores and above.
Football led the way with 38 Academic All-Big Ten honorees this fall. Cross country produced 22 (13 women, 9 men). Soccer (19) and volleyball (10) both had a large majority of their award-eligible student-athletes also recognized.
Runner Ian Hunter and placekicker Mitchell Fineran earned special recognition for maintaining flawless 4.0 cumulative GPAs. Hunter has maintained his 4.0 as a four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree and is now pursuing a master’s in computer science after graduating earlier this year with a triple major. Fineran has a 4.0 in his technology leadership and innovation graduate program at Purdue.
Among the Boilermakers recognized as an elite group of 29 student-athletes to be honored by the conference for at least the third time. Of those 29, seven are enrolled in master’s programs and were recognized for the fourth time. All-Big Ten quarterback Aidan O’Connell is closing out his career as a five-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree.
Altogether, 55 of the 89 Boilermakers recognized this month are now multi-year Academic All-Big Ten honorees. Football had the highest percentage with 25 of its 38 honorees (66%) making the list again.
The Big Ten Conference recognized a total of 1,619 student-athletes as Academic All-Big Ten honorees for the fall sports season. That total includes 614 from football, 370 from soccer, 359 from cross country, 135 from volleyball and 141 from field hockey.
Purdue’s fall Academic All-Big Ten Honorees & majors by sport
(Years in parentheses are those in which he or she was Academic All-Big Ten)
Names in bold have compiled 4.0 cumulative GPAs
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