OSHAWA, Ont. – The Ridgebacks held their annual academic brunch, presented by the Office of the Provost, on Tuesday morning and recognized the academic efforts of 72 students.

To go along with the 72 athletes that were honoured with Ridgebacks All-Academic awards, there were 51 Ridgebacks student-athletes named OUA Academic Achievment winners, and 33 student-athletes named U SPORTS Academic All-Canadians. The brunch culminated in the awarding of the prestigous Bob and Sallie Baun Varsity Scholarships to athletes. This year, the Bob and Sallie Baun Varsity Scholarship was increased to eight athletes, four men and four women, who are returning student-athletes with a GPA of 3.7 or higher. These student athletes are outstanding members of our community, and have demonstrated excellence in a high performance athletics, while exhibiting strong leadership qualities.

This year, it was award to Nikita Mohan (Ottawa, Ont.) from women's soccer, Zoe McGee (Katana, Ont.) of women's hockey, Jasmine Groleau (Hearst, Ont.) from curling and Venuga Kariharan (Scarborough, Ont.) from badminton on the women's side. On the men's side, it was award toStefan Prica (Toronto, Ont.),James White(Peterborough, Ont.) and Andrew Suriyuth (Kingston, Ont.) from men's hockey and Adam Klimek (Oshawa, Ont.) from men's soccer.

Of note, Prica marks the first time a men's basketball player has been the recipient of the Bob & Sallie Baun Varsity Scholarship.

Also of note, Praveen Manickavel, Sara Esongola-Biango, Colin Byers and Jasmine Groleau repeated as their teams respective Top GPA leaders.

AWARDS LIST
BOB & SALLIE BAUN AWARD
Female: Nikita Mohan, Zoe McGee, Jasmine Groleau, Venuga Kariharan
Male: Stefan Prica, James White, Adam Klimek, Andrew Suriyuth

TOP GPA ACADEMIC AWARDS BY SPORT
Women's Badminton - Venuga Kariharan
Men's Badminton - Praveen Manickavel
Men's Basketball - Stefan Prica
Women's Basketball - Sara Esongola Biango
Women's Curling - Jasmine Groleau
Men's Curling - Alexander Cole
Dance -  Melinda Geissberger
Golf  - Colin Byers
Women's Hockey - Elissa Burton
Men's Hockey - Tyson McConnell
Lacrosse -  Tanner Gustavsen-Walker
Women's Rowing - Emmeline Meens Miller
Men's Rowing - Zachary Dixon
Women's Soccer- Christina Coroado
Men's Soccer- Adam Klimek

ONTARIO TECH ALL ACADEMIC AWARDS

Badminton
Praveen Manickavel
Roy Wales
Pruthak Jayesh Patel
Danish Ahmed
Kaushik Krishnakumar Raman
Bryan Zhang
Mashal Niazi
Venuga Kariharan


Men's Basketball
Stefan Prica

Women's Basketball
Hadeza Ismaila
Alyssa  Carin
Sara Esongola Biango

Curling
Treyton Cowell
Alexander Cole
Jasmine Groleau

Dance
Olivia Vigna
Kendra  Gowdy
Natalie Bates
Melinda Geissberger
Cassandra Lojko
Anastasia Shillinglaw
Maielle Mercier

Golf
Colin Byers
Justin Posteraro

Women's Hockey
Erin Ross
Brooklyn Duff
Madeline Schroder
Emily Davis-Tope
Kayla Welk
Paige Wagner
Katie Mikkelsen
Zoe McGee
Mackenzie Krasowski
Harrie Jones
Elissa Burton
Jordanna Connors
Victoria Solti

Men's Hockey
Tyson McConnell
Nolan Ford
Andrew Suriyuth
James White
Braiden Koran

Lacrosse
Abigail Giesbrecht
Caitlyn Cote
Rachel Kucera
Tanner Gustavsen-Walker
Kelsey  Cluett

Rowing
Taylor Ruzgys
Emmeline Meens Miller
Charlotte Burgess
Marcus Whalen
Zachary Dixon
Akilesh Shiamkumar
Aysha Mohmand
Talia Ciampo

Men's Soccer
Jacob Begley
Brolin Masuhara
Alessandro Prataviera
Matthew Mattila
Adam Klimek

Women's Soccer
Noah Mossavat
Michele Dell'Aquila
Katrina Pappas
Rhese Chambers
Christina Coroado
Leah Storms
Marlene Siwula
Stephanie Viviano
Tatum  Pearce
Priscilla Voulgaris
Sara Wylie
Nikita  Mohan