Academic Excellence

143 Blue Raider Athletes Earn Dean’s List Honors for Spring 2025

The Student-Athlete Enhancement Center announces 142 Blue Raiders to earn Dean’s List honors for their academic effort during the spring semester. 62 student-athletes earned a perfect 4.0. The Dean’s List requires a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Football led all teams with 26 student-athletes, soccer had 16, baseball had 13, and women’s track & field had 12. Overall, 251 out of 352 student-athletes had a 3.0 or higher (71%).  

Baseball (13)

Landen Burch, Jackson Fortner, Brady Holloway, Andre Horn, Brennan Mealer, Tyler Minnick (4.0), Rex Pendergrass, Braeden Purser-Eber, Eston Snider (4.0), Grant Snider, Shaw Walker, Cole Torbet, and Brett Vondohlen

Men’s Basketball (7)

Justin Bufford, Jacob Johnson (4.0), Isiah Lightsy (4.0), Chris Loofe (4.0), Alec Oglesby (4.0), Jestin Porter, and Cam Weston

Women’s Basketball (8)

Elena Arike, Gracie Dodgen (4.0), Jalynn Gregory (4.0), Gracie Hamby, Jada Harrison, Ana Milanovic (4.0), Emily Monson, and Dor Van Rijs

Football (26)

Aaren Alexander (4.0), Stanley Anderson-Lofton, Brody Benke, Diego Blatter (4.0), Brain Brewton, Muaaz Byard, Elijah Carney (4.0), Austin Clemons (4.0), Juwon Gaston, Mateo Guevara, Henry Hamlin, ZaBrien Harden (4.0), Ryan Hoerstkamp, Troy Hughes (4.0), Wyatt Joyce, Christopher Kaup, Simon Know, Kyle Larkin, Sawyer Lavvorn, Jayson Lowe, Kevin Minniefield (4.0), Zaidyn Moore (4.0), Thomas Rankin, Brady Russell, Nash Stidham, and Nicholas Vattiato (4.0)

Men’s Golf (5)

Charles Bell, Carter Maneth, Luke Perkins, Owen Queener (4.0), and Jaden Zimmer (4.0)

Women’s Golf (7)

Jillian Bowman, Lanie Campbell, Brylee Crouse, Ella Ives-Manely, Nicole Johnson, Abigail Lee (4.0), and Kendall Maynard (4.0)

Men’s Track & Field/CC (8)

Wail Bourahli, Jackson Burns (4.0), Carmelo Cannizzaro (4.0), Joel Iheakolam (4.0), Juan Lucas (4.0), Trent Rasmussen, Spensir Stec, and James Thomas

Women’s Track & Field/CC (12)

Lauren Cole, Ariana Flippen, Hailee Gorham (4.0), Courtney Green, Sandra Maiyo (4.0), Faith Nyathi (4.0), Zenade October, Viktoria Rusnakova (4.0), Emma Thomas (4.0), Sara Tompkins (4.0), Eleanor Towe, and Xarya Udoumana

Soccer (16)

Faith Adje, Emma Brown (4.0), Megan Carroll (4.0), Taijah Fraser, Jess Gray (4.0), Demi Gronauer, Idun Kvaale, Emily McGrain, Hannah Murphy, Sascha Nielsen (4.0), Hannah Opie, Lexi Rabold (4.0), Gabriela Shegota (4.0), Lauren Spaanstra (4.0), Sadie Sterbenz, and Yana Yordanova (4.0)

Softball (9)

Leila Ammon, Ansley Blevins (4.0), Addy Edgmon, Jesyne Espinal (4.0), Anyce Harvey, Mary Martinez, Lexi Medlock (4.0), Ava Tepe (4.0), and Emmaline Whitt

Men’s Tennis (5)

Karim Al-Amin (4.0), Rostislav Halfinger, Jakub Kroslak, Igor Mandou Berranger, and Kacper Szymkowiak

Women’s Tennis (7)

Rutuja Chaphalkar (4.0), Sara Conde, Zenn Lim, (4.0), Hrudaya Shah (4.0), Ilaris Sposetti, Eloise Swarbrick (4.0), and Alessia Truden (4.0)

Volleyball (9)

Alivia Bronner (4.0), Payton Deidesheimer (4.0), Michaela Dlouha, Raegan Durbin (4.0), Laure Jansen, Marie Lowell (4.0), Nicole Martin (4.0), Traeston McCutchan (4.0), and Aowyn Schrader

Women’s Soccer Takes GPA Honors for Spring 2025

Women’s soccer led all teams by earning a 3.686 GPA for the Spring 2025 semester. Honorable mention goes to men’s tennis (3.656 GPA), women’s tennis (3.627 GPA), women’s golf (3.564) and volleyball (3.550 GPA). Overall, 13 of 15 teams had a semester team GPA of 3.0 or higher.