Stephenson, Truscott Named U-M’s Recipients of Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award

• Michigan Big Ten Sportsmanship Recipients

ROSEMONT, Ill. — University of Michigan softball sophomore Ella Stephenson and ice hockey graduate pupil Jacob Truscott had been named U-M’s Outstanding Sportsmanship Award winners for the 2024-25 educational yr by the Big Ten Conference on Thursday (July 31).

Stephenson began all 60 video games in proper subject this season and ranked among the many Wolverines’ offensive leaders, posting a career-best .338 batting common with 35 runs, 66 hits — together with 10 doubles and 9 homers — and 42 RBI. She demonstrated a continued propensity for delivering clutch hits, most notably driving in a sixth-inning run towards No. 9 UCLA within the Big Ten Tournament championship recreation (May 10), recording a walk-off RBI single within the eighth inning towards Michigan State (March 29) and the go-ahead dwelling run within the prime of the seventh at USF (Feb. 21).

She was honored with the crew’s Maize and Blue Award, voted by her coaches as exemplifying a ardour for Michigan softball and her teammates, in addition to Michigan Athletics’ Sophomore Leader and Best Award, given yearly to the highest sophomore student-athlete who demonstrates Michigan’s Leaders and Best qualities each academically and athletically.

Over the second semester and all through the 2025 season, Stephenson performed an unbiased analysis mission centered round self-compassion and, as a method of accumulating information, performed interviews and workshops with teammates in an effort to assist them change into much less essential of themselves. An Academic All-Big Ten honoree, Stephenson is pursuing a significant in motion science by Michigan’s School of Kinesiology.

Stephenson is the fourth consultant from the softball program to garner the Big Ten Outstanding Sportsmanship Award because the honor was launched in 2002-03, becoming a member of Becky Marx (2006), Teddi Ewing (2009) and Dorian Shaw (2011).

The winner of the 2024-25 Derek Hines Unsung Hero Award and a nominee for the Hockey Humanitarian Award, Truscott earned his second straight Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.

A two-year captain and five-year letterwinner on the Michigan ice hockey crew, Truscott led this system to 3 consecutive Frozen Fours and back-to-back Big Ten Tournament appearances. He graduated with a bachelor’s in utilized train science and a graduate certificates in Real Estate. A local of Port Huron, Mich., Truscott skated in 166 video games for the Wolverines and had 70 factors with a +44 on-ice score and 201 blocked photographs — the fifth most in class historical past.

During his time at Michigan, Truscott earned honorable point out All-Big Ten honors, 4 Academic All-Big Ten accolades and was the 2024 recipient of the Rachael Townsend Leadership Award. A frontrunner on and off the ice, Truscott partnered with alum Zach Werenski of the Columbus Blue Jackets to establish native non-profit organizations to obtain the tickets to dwelling hockey video games. After each recreation, Truscott and some teammates go to with, take photos, and signal autographs for the company of the suite. Some of the organizations impacted included The Ronald McDonald House, Mott Children’s Hospital, Ele’s Place, The VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Metro Detroit Sled Hockey program and the Ann Arbor YMCA.

Truscott is the crew chief with Team Impact as properly. He has been instrumental in establishing this system because it exists inside hockey at Michigan. To date, Michigan Hockey has had the privilege of getting two Team Impact members: Kellen and Conner. Truscott has consciously labored to create alternatives for his teammates and Team Impact teammates to attach.

2024-25 Michigan Big Ten Sportsmanship Award Winners

Baseball: Cole Caruso

Men’s Basketball: Nimari Burnett

Women’s Basketball: Jordan Hobbs

Men’s Cross Country: Jack Spamer

Women’s Cross Country: Jadyn Zdanavage

Field Hockey: Lindsey Stagg

Football: Max Bredeson

Men’s Golf: Ben Hoagland

Women’s Golf: Lauren Sung

Men’s Gymnastics: Paul Juda

Women’s Gymnastics: Reyna Guggino

Ice Hockey: Jacob Truscott

Men’s Lacrosse: John Morgan

Women’s Lacrosse: Megan Minturn

Rowing: Ally Blomquist

Men’s Soccer: Ethan Wood

Women’s Soccer: Stephanie Sparkowski

Softball: Ella Stephenson

Men’s Swimming and Diving: Connor Hunt

Women’s Swimming and Diving: Kathryn Shanley

Men’s Tennis: Alex Cairo

Women’s Tennis: Lily Jones

Men’s Indoor Track and Field: John McNeil

Women’s Indoor Track and Field: Amare Harlan

Men’s Outdoor Track and Field: Nolan Clark

Women’s Outdoor Track and Field: Clare McNamara

Volleyball: Brooke Allison Jacobs

Water Polo: Kasey Umlauf

Wrestling: Joseph Walker