We are all about the academic news over the last couple of days — and frankly — I’m not sure Ohio State gets enough credit for the focus and emphasis it puts on student-athletes performing in the classroom.
Tuesday, the university announced that eight women and four men from the Buckeye hockey program were honored as Krampade American Hockey Coaches Association All-American Scholars.
To qualify this year, student-athletes must have attained at least a 3.75 grade-point average for fall semester and participated in 40 percent of their school’s games, with a waiver granted to the 40 percent participation requirement because of injury or for back-up goaltenders according to the release.
Form the women, Senior Jincy Dunne (sports coaching master’s) and sophomore Sara Saekkinen (sport industry) are now two-time selections, while senior Maddie Babnik (finance), juniors Lisa Bruno (sport industry) and Tatum Skaggs (special education) and sophomores Madison Bizal(sport industry), Andrea Braendli (criminology and criminal justice/psychology) and Gabby Rosenthal (speech and hearing science) all earned a spot on the list for the first time. All but Babnik earned B1G Distinguished Scholar and Academic All-Big Ten accolades and all eight were Ohio State Scholar-Athletes.
And for the men, Junior Austin Pooley (finance) earned the honor for the second time, joined by sophomore Quinn Preston (health sciences) and freshmen CJ Regula (management and industry exploration) and Ryan Snowden(management and industry exploration). Pooley and Preston were also Big Ten Distinguished Scholars and on the Academic All-Big Ten team this year, while all four earned Ohio State Scholar-Athlete honors. The four selections led all Big Ten programs.
Congrats to all twelve of these student-athletes for their outstanding work in the classroom.
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