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July 11, 2012
Park Ridge, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference announced on Wednesday 30 student-athletes from Illinois were among those who have been selected recipients of the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. The list includes student-athletes from every institution and 36 different sports who have earned a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.
In February of 2008, Big Ten Faculty Representatives established a conference academic recognition to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. Similar to the Academic All-Big Ten honor, Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution. However, the Distinguished Scholar Award encompasses only student-athletes with a minimum GPA of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year, excluding summer school. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher for a student-athlete's academic career.
The 2011-12 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 85 student-athletes who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term.
| Big Ten Distinguished Scholars from Illinois | ||||
| Kevin Johnson | Baseball | Junior | Health Planning and Administration | Midlothian, Ill. |
| Katelin Dilger | Women's Golf | Senior | Marketing and Entrepreneurship | Palmdale, Calif. |
| Alex Varga | Men's Gymnastics | Sophomore | Business | Glen Ellyn, Ill. |
| Jenna Carosio | Women's Soccer | Senior | Civil Engineering | Novi, Mich. |
| Nicole Denenberg | Women's Soccer | Junior | Advertising | Chicago, Ill. |
| Vanessa DiBernardo | Women's Soccer | Sophomore | Sport Management | Naperville, Ill. |
| Julie Ewing | Women's Soccer | Senior | Communication | Batavia, Ill. |
| Christina Farrell | Women's Soccer | Junior | News-Editorial Journalism | Tucson, Ariz. |
| Shayla Mutz | Women's Soccer | Junior | Health Behavior Change | Homer Glen, Ill. |
| Keri Eberhardt | Women's Swimming | Junior | Biology | Tinley Park, Ill. |
| Rachel Japp-Joyce | Women's Swimming | Senior | Kinesiology | Mokena, Ill. |
| Kelly Kunkel | Women's Swimming | Senior | Elementary Education/Math | Omaha, Neb. |
| Erin Lamb | Women's Swimming | Junior | Kinesiology | Naperville, Ill. |
| Torrey Loper | Women's Swimming | Senior | Marketing | Scottsdale, Ariz. |
| Erica Lynn | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | English | Swansea, Ill. |
| Kristen Manias | Women's Swimming | Senior | Advertising | Lakeville, Minn. |
| Brittany McGowan | Women's Swimming | Senior | Kinesiology | Beverly Hills, Mich. |
| April McKee | Women's Swimming | Senior | Elementary Education/Math | Buffalo Grove, Ill. |
| Marin Thompson | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Economics | Jackson, Wis. |
| Alyssa Toland | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | I-Health | Mokena, Ill. |
| Emily Wilkinson | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Elementary Education | Westmont, Ill. |
| Bruno Abdelnour | Men's Tennis | Senior | Mechanical Engineering | Aleppo, Syria |
| Chris DeSilva | Men's Track & Field | Junior | Civil Engineering | St. Charles, Ill. |
| Graham Farnsworth | Men's Track & Field | Senior | English | Wheaton, Ill. |
| Joshua Hodur | Men's Track and Field | Junior | Accountancy | Burbank, Ill. |
| Phil Pompei | Men's Track & Field | Junior | Broadcast Journalism | Los Altos, Calif. |
| Zebo Zebe | Men's Track & Field | Sophomore | Kinesiology | Tolono, Ill. |
| Amanda Duvendack | Women's Track & Field | Sophomore | Kinesiology | Metamora, Ill. |
| Courtney Yaeger | Women's Track & Field | Junior | Individual Plan of Study | Wheeling, W.V. |
| Anna Dorn | Women's Volleyball | Sophomore | Kinesiology | Munster, Ind. |
