Red Wings prospect Sam Stange has been spending his past week in Detroit, taking part in the Red Wings’ summer development camp, but the University of Wisconsin junior has spent the past two seasons in Madison, skating under the tutelage of coach Tony Granato.
Stange is both an NCAA Division 1 hockey player and a student, and, this evening, the University of Wisconsin’s athletic department released a list of their 115 “Big Ten Distinguished Scholars“:
Honored for their work in the classroom, 115 student-athletes from the University of Wisconsin have earned 129 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award honors (including multi-sport honorees), the conference office announced. The list includes students from all 23 UW sports who earned a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.
The Badgers’ 2021-22 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 33 students who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term (bolded below).
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) 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 3.0 or higher for a student-athlete’s academic career.
Learn more about the Fall, Winter, Spring and At-Large Academic All-Big Ten honorees.
Stange, a 6’1,” 208-pound right wing who’s 21 years of age, is the only member of the men’s hockey team to have made the list.
What’s his major, you might ask?
Neurobiology.
Not bad, Sam, not bad.
