Eleven Husker Gymnasts Earn Spots on Big 12 Honor Roll

<?xml:namespace prefix="st1" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"?>Lincoln, Neb.-Eleven members of the Nebraska men’s gymnastics team earned spots on the Big 12 Commissioner’s Spring Honor Roll this week, which recognizes a grade point average of 3.0 or higher during the spring semester. <?xml:namespace prefix="o" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"?>

 

The list of Husker honorees features all 11 gymnasts as repeat selections, including freshmen Cory Baumgarten, Bear Danley and Matthew Forrest, sophomores Garret Durst, Josh Rusler, Stefan Wallof and Kyle Shanahan, juniors Bo Benak and Jacob Ives and seniors Eric Daigle and Stephen Tetrault.

 

Tetrault, a mathematics major, headlines the Husker gymnasts with seven selections to the honor roll. The Lincoln, Neb., native is also a first-team Academic All-American and a third-team Academic All-American and a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District At-Large selection. He was recently named Nebraska’s Male Student-Athlete of the Year and the 2008 Jim Hartung Award recipient. Tetrault, a three-time NCAA All-American, is also a three-time College Gymnastics Association First-Team Academic All-American and a three-time Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Academic All-Conference member.

 

Daigle and Benak, both industrial technology education majors from Omaha, Neb., earned their fifth selections to the honor roll. Daigle is also a two-time Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Academic All-Conference member.

 

Sophomores Durst and Rusler, both broadcasting majors, and Wallof, a civil engineering major, each gained their fourth selection to the list. Ives, an actuarial science major, earned his third selection, while Baumgarten, Danley, Forrest and Shanahan each earned their second selections.

 

Nebraska athletes captured 270 Big 12 Commissioner’s honor roll selections across 20 sports.

 

A complete list of Husker men's gymnastics selections and their academic majors is provided below.

 

Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Honor Roll

Cory Baumgarten-Mathematics and Physics (two selections)

Bo Benak-Industrial Technology Education (five selections)

Eric Daigle-Industrial Technology Education (five selections)

Bear Danley-Undeclared (two selections)

Garret Durst-Broadcasting (four selections)

Matthew Forrest-History (two selections)

Jacob Ives-Actuarial Science (three selections)

Josh Rusler-Broadcasting (four selections)
Kyle Shanahan-International Business (two selections)

Stephen Tetrault-Mathematics (seven selections)

Stefan Wallof-Civil Engineering (four selections)