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107 Hawkeyes earn Spring Academic All-Big Ten Honors, Atlantic’s Reed included

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June 10th, 2020 by admin

IOWA CITY, Iowa – One hundred seven University of Iowa student-athletes have been named to the 2020 Spring Academic All-Big Ten team, the conference office announced Wednesday. The list includes student-athletes from baseball (11), men’s golf (1), women’s golf (4), rowing (16), softball (11), men’s tennis (5), women’s tennis (6), men’s track and field (23), and women’s track and field (30).

The totals for men’s (23) and women’s (30) track and field and softball (11) are school records, while baseball’s 11 selections are one shy of a program record set in 2011.

A total of 2,054 students competing in spring and at-large sports were honored, including 178 in baseball, 140 in softball, 261 in women’s rowing, 75 in men’s and 84 in women’s golf, 127 in men’s and 152 in women’s lacrosse, 73 in men’s and 73 in women’s tennis, 266 in men’s and 369 in women’s track and field and 78 in men’s (representing fencing, rifle and pistol, rowing and volleyball) and 178 in women’s (representing bowling, fencing, ice hockey, lightweight rowing, rifle and pistol, sand volleyball, synchronized swimming and water polo) at-large sports.

Forty-six student-athletes carried a perfect grade point average, including Iowa’s Stephanie Herzog (women’s golf), Marissa Mueller (women’s track and field), Maria Gorham (women’s track and field), and Konnor Sommer (men’s track and field).

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.

Atlantic native Gratt Reed was honored from the Track and Field team. Reed is a sophomore political science major.