July 8, 2015
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IOWA CITY, Iowa — Forty-one University of Iowa student-athletes have been honored by the Big Ten Conference with the Distinguished Scholar Award, it was announced Wednesday by the league office.
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Among the Iowa honorees, nine maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average during the 2014-15 academic term, women’s basketball’s Ally Disterhoft, women’s cross country’s Jocelyn Todd and Samantha Zishka, field hockey’s Brynn Gitt and Jessy Silfer, women’s swimming and diving’s Maddie Bro and Joelle Christy, women’s track and field’s Lindsay Herra, and volleyball’s Alli O’Deen.
Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program. The recipients must be letterwinners in at least their second academic year at their institution and have a minimum GPA of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year, excluding summer school.
The Big Ten recognized 781 student-athletes in 38 different sports as Distinguished Scholars, including 119 that maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term.
Men’s Basketball (1)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Mike Gesell – Jr. – Finance – South Sioux City, Neb.
Women’s Basketball (3)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Ally Disterhoft – So. – Accounting – Iowa City, Iowa
Samantha Logic – Sr. – Health & Human Physiology/Sports Studies – Racine, Wis.
Hailey Schneden – So. – Elementary Education – Davenport, Iowa
Women’s Cross Country (3)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Katie Adams – So. – Health & Human Physiology – Marengo, Ill.
Jocelyn Todd – Sr. – Biomedical Engineering – St. Louis, Mo.
Samantha Zishka – So. – Health & Human Physiology – Lancaster, Ohio
Field Hockey (2)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Brynn Gitt – Jr. – Electrical Engineering – Lumberton, N.J.
Jessy Silfer – Jr. – Human Physiology – Cazenovia, N.Y.
Football (2)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Jake Rudock – Jr. – Interdepartmental Studies – Weston, Fla.
Ryan Ward – Jr. – Health & Human Physiology – Homer Glen, Ill.
Men’s Gymnastics (2)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Cyrus Dobre-Mofid – Jr. – Sociology – Hagerstown, Md.
Caleb Fischle-Faulk – So. – Interdepartmental Studies – Escondido, Calif.
Women’s Gymnastics (2)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Sydney Hoerr – Sr. – Health & Human Physiology – Bloomington, Ill.
Caitlin Tanzer – Sr. – Management – Naperville, Ill.
Rowing (3)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Madeline Anglin – Jr. – Nursing – Metamora, Ill.
Destinee Gwee – Sr. – Biochemistry/Asian Languages & Literatures – Iowa City, Iowa
Mackenzie Norton – Sr. – International Studies & Economics – Whitefish Bay, Wis.
Women’s Soccer (4)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Brooke Backes – Jr. – Health & Human Physiology – Carmel, Ind.
Caitlin Brown – Sr. – Health & Human Physiology – Ann Arbor, Mich.
Sarah Mazur – Jr. – Engineering – La Grange, Ill.
Katie Nasenbenny – Sr. – Psychology & Communications Studies – La Grange, Ill.
Softball (1)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Haley Hansel – Jr. – Journalism & Mass Communications/Spanish – Overland Park, Kan.
Men’s Swimming & Diving (4)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Charles Holliday – Jr. – Human Physiology – Rock Island, Ill.
Maverick Hovey – Jr. – Mechanical Engineering – Eden Prairie, Minn.
Roman Trussov – Jr. – Management – Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
Mike Vinyard – Sr. – Chemistry – Carmel, Ind.
Women’s Swimming & Diving (6)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Elaine Boosalis – Sr. – Human Physiology – Maple Grove, Minn.
Pamela Breitrick – Sr. – Marketing – Menomonee Falls, Wis.
Maddie Bro – Jr. – Journalism & Mass Communications/Gender Studies – Ames, Iowa
Joelle Christy – Sr. – Health & Human Physiology – Springfield, Ill.
Hannah Maher – Sr. – Biology – Decorah, Iowa
Allie Orvis – Jr. – Art – Decorah, Iowa
Men’s Tennis (1)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Andres Estenssoro – Sr. – Industrial Engineering – Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Women’s Track & Field (3)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Kassidy Ellis – Jr. – Speech & Hearing Science – Bakersfield, Calif.
Allison Gattone – Jr. – Elementary Education – Libertyville, Ill.
Lindsay Herra – So. – Health & Human Physiology – Rockford, Ill.
Volleyball (3)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Erin Leppeck – Sr. – Biomedical Engineering – Rochester Hills, Mich.
Alli O’Deen – Sr. – Health & Human Physiology – Iowa City, Iowa
Emily Yanny – Sr. – Human Physiology – New Berlin, Wis.
Wrestling (1)
Name – Year – Major – Hometown
Nathan Burak – Jr. – Health & Human Physiology – Colorado Springs, Colo.
BOLD ITALICIZED names indicate student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA.
