South Carolina Leads Conference’s First-Year Academic Honor Roll

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The SEC’s First-Year Academic Honor Roll was announced on Tuesday by commissioner Greg Sankey. South Carolina’s 127 student-athletes lapped the field, leading the conference for the 12^th time in the last 15 years. It is also the fourth school year in a row with triple-digit honorees and is the second-highest single-year total in the department’s history.
 
In total, 1,130 student-athletes made the list. First year student-athletes in all sports may be named to the Honor Roll at the conclusion of their first full academic year in residence (spring, fall and summer terms).
 
The Athletics Department concluded the Spring 2021 semester with a departmental grade point average (GPA) of 3.369, the department’s third-highest GPA in history and the 29th-consecutive semester with a departmental GPA above 3.0. During the spring semester, 16 of 18 Gamecock teams earned a GPA of 3.0 or better.
 
Women’s soccer (3.814) earned the highest team GPA, while beach volleyball (3.798) earned the second-highest team mark within the department.
 
Four teams earned their second-highest GPA to date, including women’s basketball (3.412), equestrian (3.615), women’s soccer (3.814), and women’s swimming & diving (3.735). Additionally, men’s soccer (3.612) and beach volleyball (3.798) earned their third-highest team GPA on record while football (3.022) and women’s tennis (3.736) earned their fourth-highest team GPA on record.
 
The department named 95 student-athletes to the President’s List for earning a 4.0, 179 student-athletes to the Dean’s List (3.5) and 441 to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (3.0).
 
Any student-athlete who participates in a Southeastern Conference championship sport or a student-athlete who participates in a sport listed on his/her institution’s NCAA Sports Sponsorship Form is eligible for nomination to the Academic Honor Roll. The following criteria will be followed: (1) A student-athlete must have a grade point average of 3.00 or above for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution. (2) If a student-athlete attends summer school, his/her grade point average during the summer academic term must be included in the calculation used to determine eligibility for the Academic Honor Roll. (3) Student-athletes eligible for the Honor Roll include those receiving an athletics scholarship, recipients of an athletics award (i.e., letter winner), and non-scholarship student-athletes who have been on a varsity team for two seasons. (4) Prior to being nominated, a student-athlete must have successfully completed 24 semester or 36 quarter hours of non-remedial academic credit toward a baccalaureate degree at the nominating institution. (5) The student-athlete must have been a member of a varsity team for the sport’s entire NCAA Championship segment.
 
South Carolina’s honorees are as follows:
 
BASEBALL (12)
Jaret Bennett – Business Administration
Alek Boychuk – Retailing
Connor Cino – Pre‐Business
Magdiel Cotto – Public Relations
Brandon Fields – Sport & Entertainment Management
Travis Luensmann – Media Arts
Jack Mahoney – Sport & Entertainment Management
David Mendham – Criminology & Criminal Justice
Will Sanders – Retailing
Joe Satterfield – Business Administration
Samuel Swygert – Sport & Entertainment Management
Jalen Vasquez – Sport & Entertainment Management
 
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (1)
Eniya Russell – Media Arts
 
BEACH VOLLEYBALL (7)
Samantha Ansel – Mechanical Engineering
Sophie Bengoechea – Political Science
Nicole Deobler – Sport and Entertainment Management
Jillian Gleason – Biological Sciences
Alyssa Keller – Pre‐Business
Hannah Mackenhausen – Experimental Psychology
Lizzie Thompson – Sport and Entertainment Management
 
EQUESTRIAN (8)
Alexa Aureliano – Sport & Entertainment Management
Madison Burlett – Aerospace Engineering
Sydney DeGrazia – Sport & Entertainment Management
Emma Lane – Sport & Entertainment Management
Kamiah McGrath – Sport & Entertainment Management
Maro Reppas – Experimental Psychology
Emilia Reutimann – Exercise Science
Chloe Stephenson – Environmental Studies
 
FOOTBALL (20)
Jordan Burch – Sport and Entertainment Management
Jaheim Bell – Retailing
Luke Doty – Biology
Gilber Edmond – Sport and Entertainment Management
Landon Grier – Sport and Entertainment
Tonka Hemingway – Physical Education
Alex Huntley – Sport and Entertainment Management
Mitch Jeter – Biology
Trai Jones – Criminology & Criminal Justice
Mohamed Kaba – African American Studies
Kai Kroeger – Middle Level Education
Vershon Lee – Computer Information Systems
MarShawn Lloyd – Civil Engineering
Payton Mangrum – Mass Communications
Rico Powers – Sport and Entertainment Management
Adam Prentice – Civil Engineering
Jesse Sanders – Pre‐Business
Jazston Turnetine – Media Arts
Tyshawn Wannamaker – Retailing
Darryl Ware – Finance
 
MEN’S GOLF (4)
Jason Quinlan – Retailing
Rafe Reynolds – Pre‐Business
William Shinn – Finance
John Sloop – Management
 
WOMEN’S GOLF (3)
Paula Kirner – Sport and Entertainment Management
Kaiyuree Moodley – Experimental Psychology
Pimnipa Panthong – Management
 
MEN’S SOCCER (9)
Peter Clement – Marketing
Athanasios Cosse – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Christian Kraus – Management
Spencer Mallion – Management
Lorenzo Nagy – Public Health
Jake O’Connor – Management
Andrew Rosenbaum – Sport & Entertainment Management
Sekou Soumah – Sport & Entertainment Management
Innocent Twishime – Public Health
 
WOMEN’S SOCCER (7)
Catherine Barry – Chemistry
Brianna Behm – Retailing
Rylee Forster – Exercise Science
Caitlyn Leffler – Business Economics
Ranya Senhaji – Sport and Entertainment Management
Megan Spiehs – Sport and Entertainment Management
Corinna Zullo – Sport and Entertainment Management
 
SOFTBALL (7)
Riley Blampied – Retailing
Maddie Gallagher – Marketing
Kylee Gleason – Exercise Science
Carlie Henderson – Retailing
Leah Powell – Retailing
Carly Robbins – Sport and Entertainment Management
Skylar Trahan – Retailing
 
MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING (3)
Jackson Davis – Management
Elijah Tarabocchia – Risk Management and Insurance
Daniel West – Marine Science
 
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING (17)
Samantha Ai – Biological Sciences
Megan Armstrong – Biological Sciences
Jordan Artim – Real Estate
Meredith Berglund – Mass Communications
Robin Chandler – Sport and Entertainment Management
Alicia Davie – Exercise Science
Gabriella Diorio – Pharmaceutical Sciences
Abigail Gray – Management
Georgia Johnson – Retailing
Hayley Mason – Exercise Science
Olivia McPherson – Civil Engineering
Isabella Pantano – Management
Riley Parker – Accounting
Kaitlyn Porter – Biological Sciences
Gabrielle Reed – English
Emma Sullivan – Experimental Psychology
Bethany Tart – Exercise Science
 
MEN’S TENNIS (3)
Bruno Oliveria – Management
Carter Morgan – Finance
Toby Samuel – Sport Management
 
WOMEN’S TENNIS (1)
Lindsay Tulenko
 
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD (6)
Adam Dowe – Exercise Science
Alexander Galbraith – Pre‐Business
Colin Kilgore – Pre‐Business
Dillon McCarthy – Exercise Science
Kyle Reers – Statistics
Dylan Targgart – Pre‐Business
 
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD (12)
Kathleen Abrams – Biomedical Engineering
Christina Ceniccola – Experimental Psychology
Hope Dominique – Exercise Science
Katerina Hendrix – Exercise Science
Alysia Johnson – Exercise Science
Ashton Lindley – Political Science
Jenna Pellizzari – Mathematics
Emily Pierontoni – Biomedical Engineering
Grace Reynolds – Exercise Science
Alyssa Rice – Broadcast Journalism
Claudia Satzke – Exercise Science
Jacqueline Savage – Nursing
 
VOLLEYBALL (7)
Caitlin Crawford – Exercise Science
Mallory Dixon – Exercise Science
Kiune Fletcher – Civil Engineering
Kyla Manning – Biomedical Science
Ellie Ruprich – Sport and Entertainment Management
Janna Schlageter – Mathematics
Riley Whitesides – Pre‐Business