June 2, 2005

Fifty-eight Purdue student-athletes received Academic All-Big Ten honors, announced today by the conference office.

The baseball team led all spring sports with 11 honorees. Track athlete Anne King and softball player Erika Peterson topped the list with a perfect GPA.

A total of 942 student ahtletes met the criteria of being at least a second year student at the institution and carrying a minimum grade-point average of 3.0. This total was the highest spring total in the last 11 years. Overall, the Big Ten Conference has recognized 1,951 Academic All-Big Ten honorees during the 2004-05 academic year.

Baseball Jay Buente; Matt Bush; Scott Byrnes; Brent Coudron; Andy Dahl; Neal Gorka; Andy Groves; John Hunter; Eric Osborn; Dan Sattler; Eric Wolfe

Men's Golf Bobby Bennett; Johan Edin; Ryan Masuda; Peter Richardson; Adam Vandoski

Women's Golf Kara Eschbach; Caroline Haase; Onnarin Sattayabanphot

Softball Katie Absher; Lauren Devich; Jamie Dum; Andrea Hillsey; Diana LaRiva; Tricia Lilley; Shelli Messer; Erika Peterson; Becky Stone; Catherine Zaworski

Men's Tennis Colin Foster; Eric Hodgman; Filip Koziell; Jarred Leibner; David Robinson

Women's Tennis Lara Burgarello; Paula Schmidt; Amy Walgenbach; Shawna Zuccarini

School-by-school breakdown for Spring

Ohio State 155

Penn State 128

Minnesota 101

Wisconsin 97

Indiana 93

Michigan 90

Michigan St. 59

Northwestern 59

Purdue 58

Iowa 54

Illinois 48