ROCK HILL, SC--A record 120 student-athletes were honored last Saturday night after being named Big South Presidential Scholars for achieving at least a 3.0 grade point average during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Top Team Academic Performers
These Student-Athletes Achieved A Perfect 4.0 GPA Last Spring
Coached by Joe Hudak, the Baseball Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Bryan Bogue, Anthony Brunetti, Matteo D’Angelo, Bradley Deal, Bryn Henderson, Jason Kosakow, Robert Lake, Tyler McBride, John Murrian, Kevin Nolan, Owen Reid, Sean Sullivan, Matthew Thielepape, Eddie Tisdale, and Dane Yoder.
Coached by Kevin Pendley and Jodi Wendt, the Golf Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Cipriano Ayala, Andrew Buergler, Katie Bolling, Gina Matthias, Rachel Smith, and Erin Sweeney.
Coached by Rich Posipanko, the Men’s Soccer Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Cameron Alksnis, Rafael Araujo, Miquel Casajuana, Matthew Horn, Benton Kieffner, Tomoharu Koyano, and Matthew Lacey.
Coached by Bud Childers, the Women’s Basketball Big South Scholar Student-Athlete are: Shanice Cole, Ashley Fann, Lacey Lyons, and Katie Ryska.
The Women’s Soccer Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Courtney Durbin and Alethia Fadness.
Coached by Mark Cooke, the Women’s Softball Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Kelly Blea, Shannon Burke, Pearl Coleshill, Megan Evans, Lisa Kingsmore, Morgan Kuhn, Lauren Levin, Carole Reda, Ashley Revell, Katie Smith, Erica Spradley, Lenore Stoddart, and Tessa Thomas.
Coached by Cid Carvalho, the Tennis Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Ansel Bivens, Garrett Leal, Andrea Merg, Preetham Moras, Roy Sichel, Luka Stanic, Arthur Takahashi, Sara Abutovic, Patricia Coimbra, Sandra Herrera del Carpio, Paul Pereira, Lisa Wilkinson, Elizaveta Zaytseva.
Coached by Ben Paxton, the Cross Country and Track Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Gaines Bailey, Trevor Beesley, Kyle Carufe, Travis Coleman, Theo Facinoli, Adam Freudenthal, Brandon Galbraith, Tony Grout, Ben Henderson, Brandon Hudgins, Brad Orr, Andrew Walker, Amami Antia-Obong, Tara Bowman, Samantha Coburn, Chantelle Davidson, Megan Fulks, Alexis Gilliam, Carly Moss, Amy Rundio, Lisa Sickman, Robin Smith, Brooke Spencer, and Shardal Twyman.
Coached by Sally Polhamus, Women’s Volleyball Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Christine Albers, Brittany Blackman, Sara Felts, Kelsey Hall, Kelsey Harrison, Lauren Huber, Kellie Sellers, Shannon Sitzmann, Ginny Talley, Kelley Taylor, Rebecca Toor, and Kaley Viola.
Coached by Randy Peele, the Men’s Basketball Big South Scholar Student-Athletes are: Chris Malcolm and Jonathan Rice.
The following list of returning student-athletes also earned a 4.0 term grade point average during the spring of 2009: Sean Sullivan, baseball; Matthew Horn, soccer; Patrick Mitrovich, soccer; Andrea McMaster, women’s soccer; Rachel Webster, women’s soccer; Pearl Coleshill, softball; Ansel Bivens, men’s tennis; Arthur Takahashi, men’s tennis; Carly Moss, track and cross country; Kelley Taylor, volleyball.
The following list of student-athletes have been enrolled at Winthrop for two or more semesters and have the highest cumulative grade point average on their teams: Matt Thielepape, baseball; Chris Malcolm, men’s basketball; Cipriano Ayala, men’s golf; Katie Bolling, women’s golf; Matthew Horn, men’s soccer; Lacey Lyons, women’s basketball; Rachel Webster, women’s soccer; Kelly Blea, softball; Luka Stanic, men’s tennis; Paula Periera, women’s tennis; Theo Facinoli, men’s track; Carly Moss, women’s track and cross country; Ginny Talley, volleyball.
