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South Carolina Paces the SEC in Fall Academic Honor Roll Members
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South Carolina Paces the SEC in Fall Academic Honor Roll Members

The Gamecocks' 115 student-athletes on the list marks three years in a row with over 100 honorees

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 13th 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