81 Hawkeyes Named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Eighty-one University of Iowa student-athletes have been named Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholars, it was announced Monday by the league office.

Among the Iowa honorees, 26 maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average during the 2025-26 academic term, including:

Claire Ammeraal, volleyball
Charlotte Bien, women’s soccer
Berkley Binggeli, women’s soccer
Avery Chambers, women’s gymnastics
Gabby Deery, volleyball
Isabelle DeLong, rowing
Kendall Doerr, rowing
Duke Faley, men’s track & field/cross country
Kellen Fife, women’s soccer
Lily Huether, women’s golf
Jacob Koch, men’s basketball
Adie Maki, women’s golf
Jaimie Marquardt, volleyball
Jenna Meitzler, volleyball
Ty Mikkelsen, baseball
Addison Ostrenga, football
Evan Schwickerath, rowing
Olivia Smothers, rowing
Brynn Storhoff, rowing
Aurelie Tran, women’s gymnastics
Nyla Valencia, women’s wrestling
Rosa Vesty, volleyball
Eva Volpe, women’s gymnastics
Miles Wilson, men’s track & field/cross country
Peyton Wilson, women’s track & field/cross country
Braedin Zondervan, men’s track & field/cross country

Big Ten Faculty Representatives established the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2008 to supplement the Academic All-Big Ten program.  Distinguished Scholar Award recipients must have earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition in the previous academic year, must have been enrolled full time at the institution for the entire previous academic year (two semesters or three quarters) and earned a minimum GPA of 3.70 or better during the previous academic year, excluding any summer grades. The Academic All-Big Ten threshold is a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher for a student-athlete's academic career.

The Big Ten recognized 1,911 student-athletes in 41 different sports as Distinguished Scholars, including 344 who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term.