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125 Hawkeyes Earn Spring Academic All-Big Ten Honors

Sports

June 12th, 2024 by Asa Lucas

IOWA CITY, Iowa – One hundred twenty-five University of Iowa student-athletes have been named to the 2024 Spring Academic All-Big Ten team, the conference office announced Wednesday. The list includes student-athletes from baseball (10), men’s golf (4), women’s golf (3), rowing (26), softball (13), women’s tennis (5), men’s track and field (19), women’s track and field (38) and women’s wrestling (7).

The 13 softball honorees are a school record.  It is the first-year women’s wrestling student-athletes could be recognized.

A total of 2,271 students competing in spring and at-large sports were honored, including 174 in baseball, 189 in softball, 310 in women’s rowing, 80 in men’s and 72 in women’s golf, 181 in men’s and 183 in women’s lacrosse, 56 in men’s and 76 in women’s tennis, 291 in men’s and 382 in women’s track and field and 277 in at-large sports (representing bowling, fencing, ice hockey, lightweight rowing, rifle, men’s volleyball, sand volleyball, synchronized swimming, water polo and women’s wrestling.)

One hundred fifteen student-athletes carried a perfect grade point average, including seven Hawkeye women’s track and field student-athletes – Alli Bookin-Nosbisch, Grace Bookin-Nosbisch, Jamie Kofron, Lauren McMahon, Katie Moore, Lillian Schmidt and Kelli Tosic.

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 May 1 for spring sports, who have been enrolled fulltime at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.