COLUMBUS, Ohio – This winter, 103 Ohio State student-athletes received Academic All-Big Ten honors, the Big Ten Conference announced Wednesday. In all, 1,000 student-athletes from the conference who competed in winter sports were recognized.
The 103 Ohio State winter sport athletes join 124 Buckeyes from fall sports who were honored in December. Winter sports include men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s gymnastics, men’s hockey, men’s and women’s swimming and diving and wrestling. Spring and at-large sports selections will be announced in May. Ohio State was one of just three schools with more than 100 winter sport honorees.
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 March 1 for winter sports), have been enrolled full time at the institution for a minimum of 12 months and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
The women’s swimming and diving program led the Ohio State winter sports with 27 honorees, followed by the men’s swimming and diving program with 24. Men’s gymnastics had 12 selections, while wrestling had 11 and men’s and women’s gymnastics had nine and eight honorees, respectively. Women’s basketball had seven selections and men’s basketball had five.
