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Purdue Student-Athletes love giving back to the West Lafayette community

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Empower Student Athlete Intern Success Story

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Empower Student Athlete Intern Success Story

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Medal of Honor: A message from the recipients

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Student Services: A student-athlete's review

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Eight Big Ten Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Student-Athletes Named to Academic All-America Teams

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ROSEMONT, Ill. – Eight student-athletes from five Big Ten Conference schools earned a place on the 2022-23 Men’s Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-America Teams, according to Thursday’s announcement by the College Sports Communicators (CSC).

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We had fun sharing books (and enjoying recess) as part of @bigten United As One Reading Week.

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We had fun sharing books (and enjoying recess) as part of @bigten United As One Reading Week. https://t.co/DsFRP4re6F

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We had fun sharing books (and enjoying recess) as part of @bigten United As One Reading Week. pic.twitter.com/DsFRP4re6F
— Purdue Football (@BoilerFootball) April 12, 2023

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Senior standouts Parker Filius and Macey Vieta of the wrestling and swimming & diving programs have been selected as Purdue's recipients of the Big Ten Medal of Honor, honoring their numerous achievements in competition and in the classroom.

The pair of All-Americans have exemplified excellence in their careers as Boilermakers, rightly joining the 109th class of recipients of the conference's most prestigious award. Established in 1915, the Big Ten Medal of Honor is awarded to one male and one female student-athlete from the graduating class of each member institution who have excelled on and off the field throughout their college career. It was the first award in intercollegiate athletics to demonstrate support for the educational emphasis placed on athletics.

With seven Academic All-Big Ten honors between them, the duo has certainly proven its merit academically. Over the weekend, Filius graduated with his master's in global supply chain management after having already received his bachelor's degree in construction management. Vieta earned her bachelor's in media and mass communication.

Filius is the first Purdue wrestler to receive the award since Jake Patacsil in 2009 and just the fourth all-time. Vieta joins a long list of divers who have dominated the award for the Boilermakers in recent years. The program has claimed eight honors with seven coming in the last decade, three more than any other team in that time frame.

A sixth-year senior in the 2022-23 season, Filius used his experience to be a leader in the wrestling room for the Boilermakers. Years of hard work and perseverance culminated at the pinnacle of the sport when he became Purdue's 61st All-American and helped give the program its first national placewinner since 2013 with a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championships. In his final year, he racked up career highs in wins (25), B1G wins (11), bonus point wins (9) and point differential (+92).

The 15th wrestler in program history to qualify for four NCAA tournaments and place in four Big Ten tournaments, the Havre, Mont., native finished his career with an 84-63 record and the 16th most back points all-time with 156. He earned four straight Academic All-Big Ten awards and became just the third wrestler at Purdue to be a four-time NWCA Scholar All-American.

Vieta was the Big Ten champion in platform diving this season, winning her third career medal in the event at the Big Ten Championships. She teamed with Maggie Merriman to give Purdue a 1-2 showing on a night in which the Boilermakers also produced three of the top five and four of the top 10 finishers. She was a championship finalist on the tower again at the NCAA Championships, claiming her third career All-America honor. The freshly minted Purdue graduate was also Academic All-Big Ten and Academic All-District as a senior.

Vieta accounted for 164 team points at the Big Ten Championships, easily a team-high total among her class. She has finished top four on the tower all four years, claiming silver as a freshman and junior. She was also a bronze medalist on platform in her debut at the NCAA Championships in 2021. On the national level, she won silver on 10-meter at the 2021 USA Diving Winter Nationals and has represented Puerto Rico at the World Aquatics Championships in Hungary and Diving World Cup in Japan. Academically, she's a three-year Academic All-Big Ten honoree as well as a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and CSCAA Scholar All-American.

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WEST LAFAYETTE - Purdue student-athletes met with 50 local businesses as part of the second-ever Hammer & Steel NIL Networking Event on Monday (April 10). The summit, presented by The Gold Standard, Purdue's home for all things Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), gave Boilermakers the opportunity to make connections for internships, future jobs and potential NIL opportunities.

Every student-athlete was provided with custom business cards with their sport, major, hometown, and social media handles to exchange with businesses. On the back of the business cards was a custom QR code for each student-athlete's marketplace profile for businesses to propose opportunities to them that were discussed at Hammer & Steel.

Focusing on the core tenants of the athletic department's EMPOWER program, the Hammer & Steel event aligns with EMPOWER's three elements of education, entrusting and entrepreneurship. Boilermakers continue to be given the resources necessary to succeed in all avenues of the current college athletics landscape. That includes the Boilermaker Marketplace, an NIL exchange that serves as a portal for local businesses and employers to connect with Purdue student-athletes. Businesses in attendance signed up for Purdue's INFLCR-powered exchange in advance of Monday's event.

Purdue's partnership with INFLCR also gives Boilermakers a tool that assists in the creation of business connections, streamlines payment and reporting processes, consolidates tax information and creates appropriate separation between the University and each student-athlete's pursuit of NIL opportunities.

Local businesses and other organizations interested in forging connections with Purdue student-athletes can click here to begin that process with the Boilermaker Marketplace. Please note that no transaction fees apply for student-athletes or businesses (applicable banking fees may apply).

⚒️ 50 local, regional and national businesses met with Purdue student-athletes to discuss future internship, job placement and NIL opportunities. The second-ever Hammer & Steel NIL Networking Event! @PurdueNIL | @BoilerEmpower pic.twitter.com/z3hsrsB7hY
- Purdue Athletics (@PurdueSports) April 11, 2023

Boilermakers took advantage of connecting with local businesses at last week's Hammer & Steel NIL Networking Event. pic.twitter.com/onAvU7C3rj
- Purdue Football (@BoilerFootball) April 18, 2023

HEAR FROM THE BOILERMAKERS
"The event allowed me to gain a better understanding of what businesses want in this market, and how as a student-athlete you should know your strengths and weaknesses when approaching a company." -Ryan Brandt, Purdue Football

"I really enjoyed the Hammer & Steel event because it gave insight into the broad world of NIL. It emphasized the power of speaking up for yourself and building your brand as well as showing student-athletes that anyone can have an impact no matter how big or small." - Idris Muhammad, Purdue Men's Swimming

"I enjoyed the Hammer and Steel event. It was nice being able to connect and learn more about NIL while also learning more about other companies and how my major would fit in with their mission." - Cierra Williams, Purdue Women's Track & Field

"Opportunity - that sums up Hammer & Steel. It was the opportunity for student-athletes to engage with companies, test their entrepreneurial skills and build their network. The combination of education, the testimonies of success stories, and the individual growth in personal skills allowed for student-athletes and companies to think big picture yet compartmentalize ideas within the space of NIL." - Peyton Stovall, Purdue Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Development

"Purdue Athletics continues to innovate by cultivating unique and impactful ways to create NIL opportunities for their student-athletes. Their Hammer & Steel event unlocks NIL opportunities and provides a platform for development. Empowering student-athletes with business cards linked to their INFLCR Profiles is an invaluable tool to create immediate connections and develop a future professional skill set." Sean Kelly, Associate General Manager at INFLCR

"Hammer & Steel is the perfect opportunity to bring the businesses in the Boilermaker Marketplace onto campus to meet in-person with our student-athletes to connect over NIL opportunities. It was incredibly exciting to watch the businesses in attendance get to know our student-athletes and see their personalities off the field/court. The networking night serves as a great platform for businesses and student-athletes to dip their toes into NIL for the first time, or build upon their existing NIL engagements, and it is always wonderful to see new relationships come together." - Jack Gallagher, Purdue Director of NIL Engagement

"The Hammer & Steel Networking Event was a fantastic activation. Coming together as local businesses and college athletes to connect and learn from each other in a quickly evolving NIL space is so important. For us at The NIL Store, working directly with the athletes to provide industry-leading royalties is our favorite part of what we do. We're incredibly grateful to Purdue and Hammer & Rails for the chance to meet face to face with so many of our athletes, meet new ones, and continue expanding what is possible with NIL at Purdue." - Adam Cook, NIL Director from the Purdue NIL Store

"The Hammer & Steel Event was an effective way for Boilermaker student-athletes to learn about NIL and networking strategies from industry leaders. The event focused on NIL branding strategies, educational information, and networking to create a learning experience on the unique value student-athletes can provide to local businesses." Paul Leaf, Purdue Assistant Director for Student-athlete Development

Female NIL Athlete of the Year: Jeanae Terry
Male NIL Athlete of the Year: Zach Edey
Female Hustle NIL Award: Jocelyn Bruch
Male Hustle NIL Award: Mason Gillis
Female Gold Standard Award: Maddie Schermerhorn
Male Gold Standard Award: Ethan Morton

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Spotlight: Hammer & Steel Event Brings NIL to Forefront for Boilers - Purdue Boilermakers

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1,717 students competing in intercollegiate athletics earned the accolade

Story Links 2022-23 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (PDF)

ROSEMONT, Ill. - The Big Ten Conference announced Tuesday that 1,717 students on varsity rosters have earned the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award. The list includes students from all 14 institutions plus Johns Hopkins and Notre Dame and 38 different sports who have recorded a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher for the previous academic year.

The 2022-23 class of Distinguished Scholar Award recipients includes 364 students who maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA during the previous academic term. This group of honorees is pursuing diverse fields of study with a list of majors that include biology, mechanical engineering, marketing, rehabilitation psychology and finance.

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 or three quarters) 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's academic career.

A complete list of the 2022-23 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Award recipients is attached as a PDF.

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2022-23 Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (PDF)