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37 Jayhawks Earn Big 12’s Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Award
In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 100 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.
Leading the way for Kansas were the rowing and swimming & diving teams, who each had eight student-athletes receive the award. Men’s track and field followed with four, while women’s track and field, soccer and softball had three apiece. Women’s basketball, women’s golf and volleyball each had two athletes on the list, which was rounded out by men’s golf and baseball, who both had one.
The full list of Kansas student-athletes to receive the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Award winners includes:
| Will King, Kansas | Men’s Golf |
| Ava Black, Kansas | Rowing |
| Kathryn Borthwick, Kansas | Rowing |
| Rory Brennan, Kansas | Rowing |
| Tammy Keller, Kansas | Rowing |
| Kara Lyons, Kansas | Rowing |
| Melia Martin, Kansas | Rowing |
| Gracie Shepherd, Kansas | Rowing |
| Alessandra Vedder, Kansas | Rowing |
| Caroline Blake, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Hailey Farrell, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Aidan Howze, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Claire Hyatt, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Lydia Lafferty, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Maggie Moore, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Molly Robinson, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Lize van Leeuwen, Kansas | Women’s Swimming & Diving |
| Mackenzie Hammontree, Kansas | Soccer |
| Emily Minard, Kansas | Soccer |
| Hallie Klanke, Kansas | Soccer |
| Grant Lockwood, Kansas | Men’s Track & Field |
| Sawyer Schmidt, Kansas | Men’s Track & Field |
| Tanner Talley, Kansas | Men’s Track & Field |
| Garrett Wilmes, Kansas | Men’s Track & Field |
| Delaney Fitzgerald, Kansas | Women’s Track & Field |
| Kade Joslin, Kansas | Women’s Track & Field |
| Tori Wingrove, Kansas | Women’s Track & Field |
| Sania Copeland, Kansas | Women’s Basketball |
| Brittany Harshaw, Kansas | Women’s Basketball |
| Johanna Ebner, Kansas | Women’s Golf |
| Anna Wallin, Kansas | Women’s Golf |
| Molly McCarthy, Kansas | Volleyball |
| Bryn McGehe, Kansas | Volleyball |
| Brigden Parker, Kansas | Baseball |
| Lizzy Ludwig, Kansas | Softball |
| Campbell Bagshaw, Kansas | Softball |
| Emma Tatum, Kansas | Softball |
The award is in its 14th year and presented in memory of Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 2007. He was the chairman on three occasions (1985-86, 93-94 and 2003-04).
Lage had been a member of the Oklahoma State family since 1966, when he joined the College of Business Administration as an assistant professor. During his tenure at OSU, he served as the director of graduate studies in the department of economics (1974-77), head of the department of economics and finance (1978-84), director of the OSU Center for International Trade and Development (1985-87), and associate dean for research and graduate programs in the college of business administration (1997-2004).