University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Southern Miss Recognizes Student-Athletes For Excellence In Classroom
3/10/2006 12:00:00 AM | Football
March 10, 2006
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The University of Southern Mississippi has recognized a total of 118 student-athletes for outstanding academic effort during the recently completed fall semester. Golden Eagle athletes from each varsity sport earned either President's List, Dean's List or Athletic Director's Honor Roll during the fall semester.
Nine student-athletes were named to the President's List, which recognizes students who achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average on at least 12 hours of course work for a semester. There also were 35 student-athletes named to the Dean's List, which recognizes students for a 3.25 or better on a minimum of 12 hours of course work. 74 others were named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll, which recognizes student-athletes who achieve at least a 3.0 grade point average for the semester.
"Our student-athletes continue to do an outstanding job on the playing field and in the classroom," Director of Athletics Richard Giannini said. "We also must give credit to our Student Academic Enhancement Program personnel for the outstanding job they continue to do in helping our athletes realize their full potential in the classroom."
Broken down by sport, the Golden Eagle football team had a varsity sport high 23 student-athletes on the list. The baseball team finished second with 18 student-athletes on the list. Those sports were followed by women's track (14), soccer (12) and softball (10). Volleyball had eight, while women's basketball and men's track each had seven. Men's and women's tennis and men's golf each had five. Women's golf and men's basketball each had two student-athletes on the list.
Those receiving President's List honors (4.0 GPA) included baseball's Patrick Ezell, women's basketball's Hallie Prest and Kendra Reed, football's Luke Johnson, soccer's Katie Warmington, softball's Nicole Fontenot, men's tennis' Domagoj Anic, women's track's Hana Prudilova and volleyball's Ashley Petrinec.
The dean's list honorees (3.25 GPA) included baseball's Eddie Burger, Marc Maddox, Justin Russell, Trey Sutton and James Winstead, women's basketball's Kristin Chaney and Kelsey Gurganus, football's Stephen Daigle, Jonathan Palmer, Chris Rhoden and Cody Tawater, men's golf's Paul Apyan, women's golf's Helena Backlund, soccer's Carly Barkley, Chelsey Brown, Christina Duvall, Erin Hamrick and Megan Kolts, softball's Ashley Brenan and Melissa Prouty, men's tennis' Dylan Mezey, women's tennis' Mary Kammerer, Courtney Ulrich and Dana Wittmann, men's track's Ahmed Abdelzaher and Zaphetreaun Watson, women's track's Cheris Fletcher, Tanika Liburd, Kenika Weaver, Brittany Wood and Jocelyn Wood, volleyball's Cassandra Conley, Kaitlyn Deutsch, Leslie Robertson and Nicole Rock.
Athletic Director's Honor Roll (3.0 GPA) honorees included baseball's Bryan Adams, Cole Basinger, Ryan Belanger, Barry Bowden, Drew Carson, Trey Cuevas, Ben Davis, Jeremy Davis, Michael Ewing, Bailey Hartel, Patrick Maxwell and Cliff Russum, men's basketball's Tyler Quinn and Donatas Visockis, women's basketball's Liz Biland, Emer Foley and Shannon Stueber, football's Gerald Baptiste, Micah Brown, Bryant Carpenter, Kevis Coley, Trevis Coley, Travis Cooley, Stuart Davidson, Justin Harris, Caleb Hendrix, Don Loehr, Ryan McKee, John McMahan, Gerald McRath, Willie Mead, Tyler Patterson, Montrell Sims, Curtis Thomas, Sam Thomas and Jeremy Young, men's golf's Jose Cincunegui, Danny Dennis, Justin Elliott and Kyle Ramey, women's golf's Jennifer Bodemann, soccer's Sarah Brennan, Erin Bunyard, Katie Hall, Melissa Planells, Jackie Ryan and Micah Stephens, softball's Ashley Breland, Charity Butler, Samantha Davis, Jessica Huerta, Danielle Martin, Kristin Pilgrim and Danielle Wymer, men's tennis' Reid Bourgeois, John Koti and Thomas Maestri, women's tennis' Ali Blackett and Chelsea Bond, men's track's Noah Bryant, David Clyburn, William Garrett, Christopher Marshall and David McLeggonn, women's track's Alisha Edwards, Angela Johnson, Candi Johnson, Naomi Kiprotich, Shannon McGill, Krista Miller, Lauren Reeves and Ashley Reyer, volleyball's Amanda Blunck, Stevi Cherry and Morgan Johnson.
