The Badgers excelled in the classroom this season across all sports

Wisconsin athletes had a great year off the field

Wisconsin put the student in student-athlete this past year, with a number of Badger student-athletes being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

To earn that designation, you must have a GPA of 3.7 or higher and be a current Wisconsin athlete. There were 127 Wisconsin student-athletes who earned the distinction across all sports, and 38 of those Badgers had perfect 4.0 GPA’s this past year.

Wisconsin has always been a school that stresses the academic portion of the student-athlete experience, and you can see the results this year with so many players across 20 different teams being named Big Ten Distinguished Scholars.

All in all, 141 Badgers earned some type of academic honor this past season: