February 27, 2019
One hundred and eleven student-athletes have been awarded the 2019 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor.
The award is in its ninth year and has recognized a total of 691 conference student-athletes. Baylor led the way with 18 honorees, followed by Oklahoma with 15, Iowa State with 14, Kansas with 13, and Oklahoma State with 13. West Virginia has 11 recipients, Kansas State has 10, Texas Tech has seven, TCU has six and Texas has four.
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.
The Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award recipients’ names will be featured on the video board at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Men’s Basketball Championship, scheduled for March 13-16 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.