Wednesday, the Big Ten Conference announced the recipients of Fall Academic All-Conference honors, a list that included 44 Hawkeye student-athletes.

To qualify for the recognition, athletes are required to be letterwinners in at least their second year at UI, as well as holding a cumulative 3.0 GPA or higher.

According the Big Ten Conference, 1,023 student-athletes earned academic all-conference honors in the Fall 2015 season.

This fall, six Hawkeye sports were represented among the list of recipients. Out of the 44 award-winning Hawks, one of them has earned the impressive distinction of maintaining a perfect — senior soccer player Sarah Mazur.     

Head coach Kirk Ferentz’s Rose Bowl-bound football team had 16 honorees, the most for the program since the 2010-11 season.

The field hockey team had the second-most representatives, with a total of seven players achieving academic all-conference status. Women’s soccer and Men’s cross-country had six honorees.

This is the second year in a row that the Iowa men’s cross-country squad has had six selections for the award.

The women’s volleyball squad fielded five recipients, and women’s cross-country had four.

— Jake Mosbach