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Iowa wrestler Brent Metcalf and Northwestern lacrosse standout Hannah Nielsen were respectively named the Jesse Owens Male and Suzy Favor Female Athletes of the Year, the Big Ten Conference announced on Thursday. The Big Ten Athletes of the Year are selected by a panel of conference media members from nominations submitted by each institution.

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Schlottke

Congrats to Metcalf!

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Wiltz

Great for Metcalf.

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Schlottke

Look at this list on nominees:

School - Male Nominee (sport)
Illinois - J Leman (football)
Indiana - Ben Hesen (swimming)
Iowa - Brent Metcalf (wrestling)
Michigan - Kevin Porter (ice hockey)
Michigan State - Jeff Lerg (ice hockey)
Minnesota - Jayson Ness (wrestling)
Northwestern - Dustin Fox (wrestling)
Ohio State - Andras Horanyi (fencing)
Penn State - Casey Sandy (gymnastics)
Purdue - Dustin Keller (football)
Wisconsin - Travis Beckum (football)

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Schlottke

The winner's four of the past six years.
2003 - Matt Lackey, Illinois, wrestling (co)
2004 - Damion Hahn, Minnesota, wrestling
2005 - Luis Vargas, Penn State, gymnastics
2006 - Peter Vanderkaay, Michigan, swimming
2007 - Cole Konrad, Minnesota, wrestling
2008 - Brent Metcalf, Iowa, wrestling

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JensenS

I was going to come in and say, this award has seemed to go to wrestlers pretty consistently in the past several years.

ISU2008

How about Ness being a nominee but not Escobedo?

Now that I look, it looks like each school only gets one nominee.

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