37 Jayhawks Earn Big 12’s Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Award

37 Jayhawks Earn Big 12’s Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Award

8/27/2025 11:00:00 AM | Baseball, General, Men's Golf, Track & Field, Softball, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Rowing, Women's Soccer, Women's Swimming and Diving, Women's Volleyball

IRVING, Texas – The Kansas Jayhawks had 37 student-athletes across 11 different sport programs who were given the Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Award for the 2024-25 school year. The award, which is the highest academic achievement in the Big 12 Conference, was announced Wednesday.

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).