Four Hoosier Football Players Named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars

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Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)

Four Indiana football players earned Big Ten Distinguished Scholar honors on Thursday. Thomas Allen, Harry Crider, Ricky Tamis and Trey Walker all were listed among the 2,132 recipients.

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 2020-21 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 465 student-athletes who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term. This group of honorees is pursuing diverse fields of study with a list of majors that include kinesiology, plant science, mechanical engineering, aerospace, English, Spanish, marketing and many others.