MACON, Ga. – With a league record 85.9 percent of Lipscomb student-athletes claiming a 3.0 grade point average or higher during 2014-15, the Bisons have repeated as the Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Champions.
The honor comes as Lipscomb had a league best 262 out of 305 total student-athletes finish above the 3.0 threshold to win the award for the second straight year. Northern Kentucky finished a distant second with 69.5 percent of their student-athletes earning conference scholar honors just ahead of Florida Gulf Coast, who notched a 67.5 percent mark.
"Of all of the awards that we could win, the academic trophy is one of the ones I am most proud of, and it is truly a team effort,” said Lipscomb director of athletics Philip Hutcheson. “Obviously, the student-athletes who put in the hard work to excel both in competition and the classroom deserve tremendous credit and I am proud of so many of them for proving that the words ‘student’ and ‘athlete’ are not mutually exclusive.
“In addition, I am thankful for a fantastic faculty who works with our student athletes, both instructing and advising them in such a way as to give them the best chance to succeed. And I am appreciative that we have a group of coaches who make it a point to encourage our students to excel academically as well as athletically.”
Lipscomb also led the way with nine Bisons earning President’s Scholar honors as each finished their academic careers with a 3.8 GPA or higher. They were joined by 13 Lipscomb seniors, who earned commissioner scholar honors with a GPA between 3.6 and 3.79, and 11 seniors, who finished their careers with a GPA between 3.40 and 3.599 to earn conference scholar honors.
“Dr. Lin Garner (Associate AD for Academics), Sherie Eubanks (Administrative Assistant for Compliance and Academics), Dr. Kent Johnson (Faculty Athletics Representative) and Dr. Brian Mast (Senior Director of the Academic Success Center) deserve special recognition in this accomplishment,” said Hutcheson. “These four people have been instrumental leaders with our teams in helping them to achieve the heights they have reached and I appreciate their expertise and enthusiasm in helping us once again earn this award."
The Purple and Gold have produced 1,944 all-academic honorees all time, the most in A-Sun history. Lipscomb also had 33 student-athletes earn a 4.0 GPA for the 2014-15 school year, a figure that led the league as well.
The league as a whole set a record with 68.37 percent of student-athletes earning a 3.0 GPA or higher during the academic year.
All-Academic Honorees
Baseball
Jonathan Allison
Nicholas Andros
Tyson Ashcraft
Tyler Bethune
Will Blalock
Tyler Brown
George Carlson
Jeffrey Crisan
Michael Gigliotti
Cody Glenn
Hunter Hanks
Kyle Kemp
Adam Lee
Benjamin Lee
Joshua Lee
Ian Martinezâ€McGraw
Grant Massey
Griffin Moore
Quinlan Moynihan
Denton Norman
Blake O'Neal
Brady Puckett
Lee Solomon
Kyle Weller
Caleb Woodson
James Young
Jason Ziegler
Men’s Basketball
George Brammeier
Jeffery Butler
Talbott Denny
Asa Duvall
Dylan Greene
Chad Johnson
Nathan Moran
Brett Wishon
Men’s Cross Country/Men’s Track and Field
Andrew Bosket
Jared Daedler
Christian Freeman
Daniel Gardner
Tyler Glenn
Juan Gonzalez
Tate Honaker
Daniel Lenart
Fidel Leon
Max McBride
Derek Peterson
Samuel Remington
Lucas Sagraves
Jonathan Shankles
Roy Stubbs
Jared Wingerter
Mitchell Zabka
Men’s Golf
Eric Ansett
Dawson Armstrong
Frank Combs
Sydney Chung
Stoney Crouch
Jacob Dines
Joshua Enderle
Michael Feher
Paul Kleineâ€Kracht
Caston Roberts
Men’s Track and Field
Aaron Beckwith
Alexander Berry
Daniel Coleman
Alexander Csorba
Sean Darragh
Kevin Floyd
Brian Gentry
Kade Hinkle
John Loesch
Caleb Love
Daniel Marsh
Wayne Newman
Jordan Pitcher
Joseph Sanderson
Nelson Scott
Kenny Smith
Devon Wade
Men’s Soccer
Anthony Bellini
Micah Bledsoe
Cameron Botes
Anthony Cedano
Josue Chavez
Alexander Elâ€Hindi
Daniel Erlandson
Robert Johnson
Joseph Kerridge
Matthew Kerridge
Kevin McMahon
Scout Monteith
Logan Paynter
Jonathan Ramirez
Kyle Smith
Daniel Vieira
Christopher Zappia
Men’s Tennis
Philippe Courteau
Kauai Linardi
Thais Minet
Robert Mitchell
Alexandru Pavel
Carson Panovec
John Tougher
Softball
Jordan Abell
Debora Baddley
Riley Brown
Mikayla Cartwright
Rebecca Dean
Laura Dukes
Brittany Elmore
Abby Fenichel
Kasey Gibson
Paige Neely
Taylor Neuhart
Caitlin Plocheck
Tanner Sanders
McCarley Thomas
Brianne Welch
Kelly Young
Volleyball
Kaitlin Bradley
Jewell Dobson
Lauren Ford
Jordan Huston
Sophie Kellerman
Kayla Ostrom
Jennifer Phelan
Chloe Rogers
Molly Spitznagle
Megan Stout
Kaitlyn Teeter
Brittany Thomas
Women’s Basketball
Alex Banks
Sara Bliss
Loren Cagle
Chandler Cooper
Emily Eubank
Danay Fothergill
Amber Fuqua
Kelsey Gregory
Faith LeGate
Riley Northway
Kennedy Potts
Kelli Smith
Ashley Southern
Women’s Cross Country
Alex Newby
Danielle Walker
Women’s Cross Country/Track and Field
Barbara Lee
Katelyn Bianchini
Grace Dean
Kayla Droessler
Madeline Enderle
Hannah Feiten
Minna Fields
Avery Franklin
Brooke Gordon
Brianne Hoglin
Kelsey Ibarra
Kinzie Icayan
Kendra Jones
Kacey Kemper
Meredith Kilburn
Sally Larson
Kaitlyn Llewellyn
Kayla Montgomery
Hannah Munyan
Katherine Sperry
Paige Stoner
Lana Sydenstricker
Madelin Talbert
Alexandra Tate
Kendra Weitz
Women’s Golf
Charley Benefield
Samantha Khan
Ines Konschewitz
Sarah McFarlin
Jennifer Muesing
Miriam Parker
Hillary Reader
Women’s Track and Field
Annika Backlund
Sarah Browning
Ki'ana Christy
Molly Crawford
Rachel Dixon
Karly Hibbard
Sarah Lavoie
Abbey McMurray
Abigail Newby
Bridget Perine
Ravyn Rowlett
Sydney Sloan
April Terry
Sarah Wagner
Women’s Soccer
Elizabeth Ashwood
Molly Bray
Caroline Chadwell
Alesondra Colbert
Karli Crosby
Lyndie Donegan
Natalie DuBoise
Alexandra Hickey
Anna Jamesâ€Buhigas
Ellen Lundy
Kate Mason
Paige Miller
Niamh Rawlins
Emily Rogers
Brittany Rupple
Peyton Sedgwick
Emily Shuler
Catherine Simmons
Carolyn Springsteen
Jacelyn Zapf
Lorena Djuknic
Kathryn Evans
Hannah Gamage
Laura Kent
Melissa Kromer
Deahna Welcher
