SEC Announces Winter Academic Honor Roll

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The 2021 Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll was announced on Wednesday by commissioner Greg Sankey. South Carolina had 83 student-athletes across five sports make the list, the second-highest total in the conference. It was just five honorees from matching the athletics department’s record of 88, set last school year.
 
In total, 788 SEC student-athletes earned a place on the honor roll, which includes the sports of basketball, equestrian, gymnastics and swimming & diving. It is 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, with winter honor roll member women’s basketball (3.333) and earning the program’s fourth-highest team GPA on record. 
 
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:
 
Men’s Basketball
Mike Green – Sport and Entertainment Management
AJ Lawson – Public Health
Nathan Nelson – Political Science
 
Women’s Basketball
Laeticia Amihere – Sport Management
Breanna Beal – Retailing w/ Fashion Merchandising & Digital Innovations Concentration
Aliyah Boston – Mass Communications
Zia Cooke – Mass Communications
Lele Grissett – Mass Communications
Destanni Henderson – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Destiny Littleton – Exercise Science
Victaria Saxton – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Olivia Thompson – Experimental Psychology
Elysa Wesolek – Public Health
 
Equestrian
Caroline Bald – Finance
Kiersten Beckner – Public Health
Kate Bonham – Public Health
Louisa Brackett – Criminology and Criminal Justice
Billi Brandner – Finance
Gabrielle Brassard – Experimental Psychology
Mira Clavecilla – Exercise Science
Mary Margaret Coats – Public Health
Nikita Cope – Tourism Management
Addie Cromer – Sport and Entertainment Management
Kit Cunningham – Experimental Psychology
McKenzie Duncan – Operations and Supply Chain
Trinity Hammerschmidt – Sport and Entertainment Management
Graycen Hess – Nursing
Alice Kass – Management
Taylor Kellam – Public Health
Christina Mueller – Marine Science
Tyler Petrie – Sport and Entertainment Management
Claire Pound – Sport and Entertainment Management
Josephine Rose – Sport and Entertainment Management
Madeline Schaefer – Retailing
Michaela Schrim – Hospitality Management
Mackenzie Suffy – Sociology
Alexa Thorpe – Social Work
Sloane Vogt – Public Health
Cora Wyers – Public Health
 
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Alex Claus – Operations and Supply Chain
Philip Costin – English
Rafael Davila Zambrano – Management
Robbie Epler – Operations and Supply Chain
Benjamin Fenwick – Exercise Science
Andrew Grespin – Public Health
Guy Gropper – Finance
Coleman Kramer – Marketing
Luke Massey – Hospitality Management
Tamas Novoszath – Finance
Allen Ross – Civil Engineering
Mark Shperkin – Computer Science
Alexander Wade – Finance
Nathaniel Wakefield – Exercise Science
Jordan Yip Zhu Ern – Finance
 
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Ayris Akbay – Exercise Science
Emma Alexander – Environmental Science
Haley Arner – Sport and Entertainment Management
Hanna Barton – Broadcast Journalism
Erynn Black – Exercise Science
Rebecca Cohen – Experimental Psychology
Danielle Doennebrink – Biological Sciences
Abigail Ellis – Elementary Education
Claire Gerlock – Exercise Science
Yu Qian Goh – Operations and Supply Chain
Samantha Grant – Sport and Entertainment Management
Savannah Hillmeyer – International Business
Lauren Hilt – Public Health
Caroline Izaguirre – Marine Science
Mariana Kraus – Public Health
Elizabeth Mandrgoc – Risk Management and Insurance
Ellen Masterson – Sport and Entertainment Management
Madelyn Norford – Biomedical Engineering
Emma Otten – Exercise Science
Jenna Pehowski – Computer Science
Karlee Price – Sport and Entertainment Management
Mathilda Roxne – Management
Emma Scheider – Public Health
Janie Smith – Exercise Science
Caroline Spence – Public Health
Ashley Stahmer – Exercise Science
Taylor Steele – Experimental Psychology
Anne Tavierne – Marketing
Emma Walker – Public Relations