Fifty-three MSU Student-Athletes Named to 2015 Fall SEC Honor Roll
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Fifty-three Mississippi State student-athletes were named to the 2015 Fall Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll, the league office announced Wednesday.
The Bulldog football team produced 25 honor roll members followed by 14 on the soccer team, nine from cross country and five from volleyball. The 2015 Fall SEC Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2015 spring, summer and fall terms.
Two postgraduate students on the football team – Dak Prescott and Taveze Calhoun – were among the recipients. Prescott earned his master’s in workforce leadership in December. Calhoun was the SEC’s only National Football Foundation National-Scholar Athlete in 2015. Both earned SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades all four years of their careers.
Rhianwedd Price, who helped lead MSU cross country to its first-ever NCAA Championship appearance last fall, was an honor roll recipient in animal dairy science. Goalkeeper Tanya de Souza, a business administration major, and Mallory Eubanks each represented the soccer team.
Leading the Bulldog volleyball attack during the impressive 2015 campaign was Alex Warren, a history major who has landed on the SEC Academic Honor Roll all four years at State.
Any student-athlete who participates in an SEC 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 is 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.
Cross Country (9)
Mathew Dunn, Clinical Exercise Physiology
Andrew Monaghan, Clinical Exercise Physiology
Patrick Monaghan, Clinical Exercise Physiology
Cornelia Griesche, Economics-A/S
Mia Meydrich, Communication
Madison Milhoan, Biological Sciences-Pre-Med
Rhianwedd Price, Animal Dairy Science
Carly Terp, Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion
Lisa Ziegler, Economics-A/S
Football (25)
Richie Brown, Industrial Technology
Ryan Brown, Business Administration
Taveze Calhoun, Community College Education (Grad. School)
Winston Chapman, Agribusiness
Tolando Cleveland, Biological Sciences
Ronald Cochran, Undeclared
Logan Cooke, Kinesiology
Devon Desper, Accounting
Nick Fitzgerald, Finance
Westin Graves, Civil Engineering
Aaron Hamaker, Undeclared
Grant Harris, Business
Brandon Holloway, Human Sciences
Jesse Jackson, Industrial Technology
Gabe Myles, Kinesiology
Josiah Phillips, Industrial Technology
Dak Prescott, Workforce Education Leadership (Graduate School)
Nick Proby, Mechanical Engineering
Martinas Rankin, Kinesiology
Justin Senior, Sociology
Jake Thomas, Biological Sciences
Kareem Vance, Kinesiology
Hayes Walker, Biological Engineering
DeAndre Ward, Industrial Technology
Rufus Warren, Human Sciences
Soccer (14)
McKenzie Adams, Kinesiology
Jamila Coner, Biological Sciences
Rhylee DeCrane, Biological Engineering
Tanya de Souza, Business Administration
Kelly Dorney, Political Science
Mallory Eubanks, Kinesiology
Payton Gruenewald, Business Administration
Kayleigh Henry, Kinesiology
Jennifer Huckaby, Kinesiology
Shelby Jordan, Kinesiology
Morgan Mills, Psychology
Peyton Shaffer, Human Sciences
Hannah Smith, Kinesiology
Katelyn Watson, Special Education
Volleyball (5)
Shelby Anderton, Communication
Chelsea Duhs, Marketing
Payton Harris, Mechanical Engineering
Ellen Stuart, Communication
Alex Warren, History