South Carolina Paces the SEC in Fall Academic Honor Roll Members

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The 2021 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll was announced on Tuesday by commissioner Greg Sankey. South Carolina had 115 student-athletes across five sports make the list, the third year in a row reaching triple digits. That total also leads the conference, marking the 13^th time in the last 15 years that the Gamecocks led the way in fall honor roll members.
 
In total, 1,263 SEC student-athletes earned a place on the honor roll, based on grades from the 2020 Spring, Summer and Fall terms. The South Carolina Athletics Department as a whole concluded the Fall 2020 semester with a departmental grade point average (GPA) of 3.299. It marks the department’s fifth-highest GPA in history and the 28th-consecutive semester with a departmental GPA above 3.0. Fourteen of 18 teams earned a GPA of 3.0 or better during the fall semester.
 
Women’s golf earned the highest team GPA at 3.891, while beach volleyball earned the second-highest team mark within the department, posting a 3.834.
 
Five teams earned their second-highest GPA to date including: men’s golf (3.585), women’s golf (3.891), women’s soccer (3.795), softball (3.598) and beach volleyball (3.834). Additionally, women’s basketball (3.333) and women’s track & field/cross country (3.489) earned their fourth-highest team GPA on record. 
 
“Our student-athletes continue to amaze me,” said Athletics Director Ray Tanner when the fall grades were announced. “In normal times, being a student-athlete is challenging enough, balancing classes, practices, games, study hall, meetings and other activities. In this ‘new normal’ during the COVID pandemic, our student-athletes continue to achieve in the classroom and that is a credit to them and our wonderful Dodie Academic Staff.”
 
The department also saw 91 student-athletes make the President’s List for earning a 4.0, 208 student-athletes make the Dean’s List (3.5) and 436 more 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:
 
Cross Country (24)
Sierra Biber – Retailing
Savannah Bowers – Biological Sciences
Hannah Cella – English
Elizabeth Davison – Finance
Lyndsey Fowler – Visual Communications
Kensi Gray – Public Health
Rachel Hensler – Civil Engineering
Kira Jenkins – International Business
Molly Joseph – Public Health
Macie Kavanaugh – Biomedical Engineering
Meg Lebo – Public Health
Sarah-Sims McGrath – Business Administration
Morgan Moseley – Marketing
Hillary Neely – Retailing
Isabella Pisani – Experimental Psychology
Brianna Reckling – Marketing
Laura Revaitis – Environmental Studies
Sarah Riser – Civil Engineering
Cailin Saylor – Experimental Psychology
Emily Smith – Exercise Science
Anna Stoddard – Journalism
Heather Stone – International Business
Hannah Twine – Experimental Psychology
Brooke Wilson – Exercise Science
 
Football (40)
Trey Adkins – Sport and Entertainment Management
Gavin Bennett – Management Science
Davonne Bowen – Sociology
Jahmar Brown – Computer Information Systems
Wyatt Campbell – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Slade Carroll – Public Health
Eric Douglas – Sport and Entertainment Management
Spencer Eason‐Riddle – Health Services Policy Management
Chandler Farrell – Exercise Science
Rodricus Fitten – Interdisciplinary Studies
Sherrod Greene – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Jovaughn Gwyn – Information Science
Cole Hanna – Civil Engineering
Alex Herrera – Sport and Entertainment Management
Ryan Hilinski – Broadcast Journalism
Jaycee Horn – Sport and Entertainment Management
Tyreek Johnson – Integrated Information Technology
Connor Jordan – Accounting
Traevon Kenion – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Christian Kinsley – Sport and Entertainment Management
Xavier Legette – Sport and Entertainment Management
Hank Manos – Sport and Entertainment Management
Sean McGonigal – MBA
Jakai Moore – Sport and Entertainment Management
Israel Mukuamu – Sport and Entertainment Management
Keveon Mullins – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Vincent Murphy – Sport and Entertainment Management
Nick Muse – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Jaylen Nichols – Public Health
Zacch Pickens – Sport and Entertainment Management
Patrick Reedy – Finance
Will Register – Management
Jordan Rhodes – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Will Rogers – Undeclared
Shilo Sanders – Advertising
Jay Urich – Public Health
Josh Vann – Public Health
Noah Vincent – Exercise Science
Parker White – MBA
Dylan Wonnum – Criminology and Criminal Justice
 
Men’s Soccer (14)
Brian Banahan – Management
Justin Bauer – Marketing
Elijah Bebout – Exercise Science
Ryan Bilichuk – Sport and Entertainment Management
Josh Corning – International Business
Logan Frost – Management
Jared Gulden – Marketing
Kyle Gurrieri – Media Arts
Andrew Halloran – Marketing
Logan Hitzeman – Finance
Parker League – International Business
Mark Roby – Finance
Seth Wiebusch – Public Health
Donovan Wu – Accounting
 
Women’s Soccer (25)
Lauren Chang – Political Science
Samantha Chang – Social Work
Meredith Christopher – Exercise Science
Jenn Colter – Public Relations
Riane Coman – Sport and Entertainment Management
Camryn Dixon – Public Relations
Sarah Eskew – Public Health
Taylor Fox – Exercise Science
Bianca Galassini – Exercise Science
Ryan Gareis – Advertising
Claire Griffiths – Experimental Psychology
Eveleen Hahn – Biological Sciences
Jyllissa Harris – Early Childhood Education
Heather Hinz – Sport and Entertainment Management
Abby Hugo – Exercise Science
Jackie Schaefer – Nursing
Sutton Jones – Public Health
Susan Kehl – Finance
Anne Frances Lorio – Exercise Science
Hallie Meadows – Biological Sciences
Paige Mikula – Advertising
Anna Patten – Sociology
Riley Tanner – Public Health
Victoria Robbins – Biological Sciences
Luciana Zullo – Sport and Entertainment Management
 
Volleyball (12)
Lauren Bowers – Public Health
Gabby Brown – Biology
Camilla Covas – Management
Holly Eastridge – Public Health
Brooke Gostomski – Public Health
Anna Holman – Management
McKenzie Moorman – Marketing
Kylee Stokes – Exercise Science
Kaely Ann Thompson – Exercise Science
Jess Vastine – Exercise Science
Courtney Weber – Chemistry
Amari Wilson – Experimental Psychology