10 Bearcats Earn Big 12 Dr. Gerald Lage Award for Academic Achievements – College of Cincinnati Athletics

IRVING, Texas – A total of 394 student-athletes have been recognized with the 2025 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award – the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor. 

The award is in its 14th year and has recognized a total of 1,837 conference student-athletes. Cincinnati had 10 athletes recognized. 

The award is 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).
 
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.

Baseball: Chase Horst

Women’s Lacrosse: Lindsay Sparago

Men’s Cross Country: Jed Helker

Women’s Soccer: Iris Schuh and Maddie Swingle

Women’s Swimming and Diving: Katie Pain

Women’s Track & Field: Claire Curtsinger and Sarah Madix

Volleyball: Carly Glendinning and Paige Pickering