MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University will hold its spring commencement exercises on Saturday and among those receiving degrees will be 64 Wildcat student-athletes.
Highlighting the 64 graduates on the weekend are 12 from rowing, 11 from football and equestrian, 10 from the track and field squads, five women’s basketball student-athletes, four from women’s tennis, three from both men’s basketball and volleyball, two from baseball and men’s golf, and one from women’s soccer.
K-State, a Tier 1 Carnegie Foundation Institution, has had another outstanding academic year in 2017-18. In addition to the 64 graduates this spring, the Wildcats saw 31 student-athletes receive their diplomas in December of 2017.
To date K-State student-athletes have been recognized with the following honors: 127 Academic All-Big 12 recipients, football’s Adam Holtorf was named a Second Team Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), while women’s basketball student-athletes Shaelyn Martin (first team), Kayla Goth and Peyton Williams (second team) and baseball’s Jake Biller were named to the Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District VII teams.
Martin would also take home 2018 Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team honors and earn the 2017-18 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
Kansas State also had a total of 243 K-State student-athletes named to the Fall 2017 Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll. The 243 student-athletes to earn the honor marked the 18th straight semester K-State has placed 200 or more student-athletes on the honor roll.
Of the 243 K-State student-athletes earning the citation for their academic excellence, 50 registered a GPA of 4.0 in the fall semester. K-State ranks among the league’s best in terms of academic success as it continues to set a national standard in terms of APR, as all programs are currently well above the required NCAA standard.
SPRING 2018 STUDENT-ATHLETE GRADUATES:
BASEBALL
Justin Heskett – Agribusiness
Trent McMaster – Kinesiology
TK McWhertor – Economics
Hudson Treu – Psychology
EQUESTRIAN
Ashley Anderson – Communication Studies
Sydney Anson – Kinesiology
Amanda Bennett – Animal Sciences and Industry
Brynn Critcher – Biology
Lauren Lynch – Computer Science
Daniella McCormick – Sociology/Criminology and Psychology
Kali Retzler – Animal Sciences & Industry
FOOTBALL
Alex Barnes – Kinesiology
Davis Clark – Marketing
Dominique Heath – Management
Osvelt Joseph – Social Sciences
Cre Moore – Computer Science
Jordan Noil – Kinesiology
Raymon Price – Criminology
Trent Tanking – Industrial Engineering
Dalvin Warmack – Management
Tyler White – Economics
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Austin Budke – Chemical Engineering
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Jeff Bachman – Marketing
Colton Donahue – Marketing
Kain Ellis – Kinesiology
Lukas Koch – Agricultural Technology Management
Samuel Oxandale – Mechanical Engineering
Bryan Zack – Management
MEN’S GOLF
Trent Evans – Accounting
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Preston Bearden – Agribusiness
Mitch Dixon – Management
ROWING
Marissa Butrum – Education/English
Kennedy Felice – Kinesiology
Taylor Flowers – Food Science
VOLLEYBALL
Bryna Vogel – Animal Sciences & Industry/Production Management
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Shaelyn Martin – Kinesiology/Pre-OT
Karyla Middlebrook – Academic Advising
Kaylee Page – Accounting
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Morgan Wedekind – Communications Sciences & Disorders
WOMEN’S GOLF
Connie Jaffrey – Psychology and Sociology
Madison Talley – Secondary Education/English
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Kelcy Fiser – Marketing
Jaclyn Means – Nutrition & Health
Abby Sieperda – Kinesiology
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Kayla Doll – Kinesiology
Janee’ Kassanavoid – Nutrition & Health
Keiteyana Parks – Psychology
Megan Vanderpool – Biology
Allison Zerbe – Marketing
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Kansas State University, the nation’s first operational land-grant institution and a Carnegie Foundation Tier One university, is recognized as one of the nation’s best colleges with world-class research and academic excellence located in America’s No. 1 College Town (Manhattan, KS).
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KENNY LANNOU
Sr. Associate A.D. for Communications and Public Relations | K-State Athletics