Four Huskers Earn Academic All-Big Ten Honors

[Mavric]

A quartet of Nebraska basketball players were honored Wednesday, as the Big Ten Conference announced its Winter Academic All-Big Ten Teams.
Juniors Trevor Menke and Kye Kurkowski and sophomores Shavon Shields and Sergej Vucetic were among the 32 basketball players from around the conference honored Wednesday. Nebraska’s four selections were second in the Big Ten.

Menke and Kurkowski were honored for the third straight year, as Nebraska finished with a 19-13 record and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Menke, who is a social science education major, played in five games and hit his only 3-pointer of the year in NU’s win over Purdue, while Kurkowski is an agricultural engineering major who played in five games and had his only basket at NCAA Sweet 16 qualifier Michigan.

Shields, who majors in microbiology, is honored for the second straight year, as he averages 12.8 points and a team-best 5.8 rebounds per game. An honorable-mention All-Big Ten pick and two-time Big Ten Player of the Week, Shields had four games of at least 20 points, including a career-high 33 points against Illinois and 28 points against Florida Gulf Coast.

Vucetic, who has not declared a major, played in seven games and had four points and four rebounds, including two points and two rebounds against South Carolina State. It is the first time that Vucetic has earned Academic All-Big Ten honors.

Huskers.com

 

[Mavric]

Complete list of Husker winter sports Academic All-Big Ten selections via LJS:

Men's basketball--Kye Kurkowski, Trevor Menke, Shavon Shields, Sergej Vucetic; Men's gymnastics--Donovan Arndt, Austin Epperson, Ryan Irick, Ethan Lottman, Grant Perdue, Mark Ringle, CJ Schaaf, Eric Schryver;

Women's basketball--Jordan Hooper, Sadie Murren, Rachel Theriot;

Women's gymnastics--Jordyn Beck, Hollie Blanske, Jessie DeZiel, Amanda Lauer, Jennifer Lauer, Madison McConkey, Jamie Schleppenbach, Desire' Stephens, Emily Wong;

Women's swimming--Alexandra Bilunas, Michaela Cunningham, Bria Deveaux, Kelly Dunn, Morgan Flannigan, Ashleigh Grammar, Shannon Guy, Samantha Hardewig, Ciara Jenkins, Jacqueline Juffer, Payton Michaud, Natalie Morris, Bailey Pons, Nicole Schwery, Kristin Strecker, Megan Ziemann;

Wrestling--Gage Anderson, Eric Coufal, Spencer Johnson, Adam Joseph, Robert Kokesh, Tim Lambert, Shawn Nagel, Ian Ousley, Aaron Studebaker, Jake Sueflohn, John Svoboda, Austin Wilson.

54 total

 

[BigRedBuster]

Microbiology? Wow....Shields continues to impress me.

Congrats to all 54 student athletes. You are an impressive bunch.