UMO student-athletes excel in the classroom

By UMO Media Relations
Published in Sports on June 6, 2016 1:49 PM

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The University of Mount Olive had 202 student-athletes make the 2016 Conference Carolinas Spring Presidential Honor Roll.

The Trojans ranked fourth overall among Conference Carolinas institutions.

Each semester student-athletes who achieve a grade-point average of 3.2 or higher on the 4.0 scale are named to the presidential honor roll. All student-athletes, including underclassmen, transfers, and those who play non-conference sports, are eligible for the recognition as long as they have participated in a sport for the semester in question.

The Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll is awarded twice each school year, recognizing the scholastic achievements of student-athletes for each semester.

"We are proud of the academic achievements of our student-athletes. Having over half of our student-athletes make the honor roll is a great accomplishment," said Jeff Eisen, vice president for athletics.

Here are the spring honor roll recipients by sport:

* Baseball: Brandon Day, Nate Estes, Brighton Hudson, Joe Koehler, David Mayo, Zachary Orrison, Bradley Ragan, Jack Sherrill, James Smibert, Alvin Swoope, Kodi Whitley, Bruce Zimmermann.

* Men's basketball: JaQuan Blount.

* Women's basketball: Paris Brower, Michaela Brown, Oshiana Davis, Rachel Fehl, Jasmine Fryar, Julie Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Tommorah Harris. Janeice Leonard, Tayah Lowery, Laura Romberger, Megan Spencer, Whitney Walker and Anamaria Zjacic.

* Men's cross country: Adam Craig, Jonathan Dahlke, Pol Domenech, Jonathan Engelking, Eugeni Gil, Aki Kitagawa, Joaquim Lezcano, Sean Mitchell, Michael Munoz and Jacob Urys.

* Women's cross country: Shona Blades, Julia Bridges, Danielle Heymach, Karina Ordonez, Emily Shaw, Elise Tanner, Kelsey Valentine and Chelsea Van Dijk.

* Cheerleading: Jessica Hoffman, Kayla Fisher and Natalie Ward.

* Men's golf: Nicholas Adams, Harry Bayley, Jose Cerrudo, Ricardo Gutierrez, Liam McAnally and Markus Proesch.

* Women's golf: Anne Barboteau, Julia Kaeding and Julie Loennechen.

* Men's lacrosse: Stephen Bowlan, Ross Bowman, Nicholas Correra, Evan Floyd, Spencer Gelinas, Jesse Mitchell, Luke Morris, Ryan Morris, Gerard Nicosia, Austin Peper, Matthew Shields, Tristan Snellgrove, Alexander Tindall and Will Urban.

* Women's lacrosse: Emerald Barron, Caley Breese, Kali Cook-Grisewood, Candace Corkin, Riann Daziel, Gina Fader, Addison Foudray, Alyssa Fox, Nicholle Galletti, Caitlin Gore, Hannah Knight, Kayla Mergl, Caitlin Sabadish, Mikayla Sindel and Kaitlyn Stockstad.

* Men's soccer: Malick Chune, Grant Conybear, Azzam Dhamra, Bright Eto, Stefan Faria, James Gilliam, Louis Gorman, Jairo Herrera, Nikolai Iotov, Sean Lockett, Jared Miller, Nathan Pike, Dauda Sanoh, Fernando Tacuri and Santiago Zapata.

* Women's soccer: Benedetta Abbate, Devynn Brennan, Kelsey Cirrito, Lauren Cowley, Jessica Hickey, Hannah Kirk, Stephanie McCoy, Sydney Nelson, Fabiana Pertegaz, Sterling Peterson, Nichole Poppe, Kristin Power, Lauren Power, Mackenzie Reed, Madison Robak, Christine Rocchio, Kara Scott, Jennifer Sickles, Niza Vera, Alexandra Wetherholt, Rachel Williams and Jocelyn Yurchak.

* Softball: Kelsey Akers, Kayla Allen, Reagan Anderson, Savannah Becker, Erin Brogan, Jennifer Burge, Callie Ferrell, Anna Ingram, Madison Johnston, Brooke Kamphuis, Courtney McNamara, Jazmin Montgomery, Kristin Power, Madison Stewart and Kylie Ward.

* Men's tennis: Sherzod Akramov, Jacob Clarke, Ogulcan Deniz, Martin Moser, Jose Planas, Martim Sousa and Yannic Stark.

* Women's tennis: Mulan Bartz, Paulina Delgado, Stella DiMichele, Nicole LaChappelle and Alejandra Model.

* Men's track & field: Martin Bayles, Adam Craig, Davide Cuccurullo, Jonathan Dahlke, Pol Domenech, Anthony Edwards, Jonathan Engelking, Eugeni Gil, Nicholas Greyno, Ashley Hicks, Aki Kitagawa, Joaquim Lezcano, Sean Mitchell, Michael Munoz, Guillermo Rendon, Darren Steagall, Cedric Thomas, Jr., Donavann Thornton and Jacob Urys.

* Women's track & field: Shona Blades, Julia Bridges, Danielle Heymach, Ayanna King, Karina Ordonez, Nichole Poppe, Emily Shaw, Elise Tanner, Kelsey Valentine and Chelsea Van Dijk.

* Men's volleyball: Joshua Donahue, Aren Mann, Bradley Monaghan, Alexander Palmatier, Robert Poole, Joel Roberts, Bret Rutledge, Peyton Schirman, Ivan Trifunovic and Jeffrey Yasalonis.

* Women's volleyball: Mackenzie Call, Casey Fiechter, Megan Hight, Britni Johnson, Sydney Kanupp, Danielle Plante, Megan Spencer, Danielle Stachura, Corey Watford, Cali Watson, Samantha Winfield and Shelby Wyatt.