General 3/23/2016 8:16:00 PM

Blue Devil scholar-athletes honored for academic achievements

2015-16 UW-Stout Scholar-Athlete Posters

MENOMONIE (March 23, 2016) - Twenty-eight UW-Stout senior scholar-athletes were honored Wednesday in an awards ceremony that also recognized 125 underclass scholar-athletes at the Memorial Student Center.

Seniors Alyssa Alward (Rochester, Minn), Kayla Bertram (Fond du Lac), Christina Block (Rochester, Minn), Molly Brion (Cameron), Brady Burzynski (Eau Claire), Tony Cass (Hortonville), Megan Collins (Maple Grove, Minn), Callie Counts (Greenback, Tenn), Kyleigh Hebert (Spencer), Kyle Hoefft (Morton, Ill), Jake Johnson (Maple Lake, Minn), Stephanie Kastens (Wausau), Jenna Kizlik (Hammond), Collin Laursen (Mondovi), Danielle Magnuson (Chanhassen, Minn), Addy Maher (Racine), Laura Mesenburg (Byron, Minn), Emily Minniecheske (Tigerton), Bailey Olson (Dallas), Sara Perez (Tigard, Ore), Nicole Rogers (Brooklyn Center, Minn), Moira Schuneman (Elm Grove), Kristi Schurhammer (Plainview, Minn), Courtney Smith (Dassel, Minn), Morgan Sweeney (Plum City), Sarah Ulrich (Wyoming, Minn), Sarah Willett (South Beloit, Ill), and Tori Workman (Prior Lake, Minn) were honored and received a specially designed medallion to be worn during graduation ceremonies.

The UW-Stout Scholar Athlete Award is given to student-athletes with a cumulative 3.50 grade point average in the semester preceding their final season of eligibility.

Participating in the ceremony were Patrick Guilfoile, provost; Phillip Lyons, vice-chancellor of Administrative and Student Life Services; and Duey Naatz , athletic director.

This is the fifth year of the UW-Stout Scholar-Athlete program, which was instituted by UW-Stout Athletic Faculty Representatives Jo Hopp and Brian Finder in 2012. The program has grown from 18 senior scholar-athletes and 76 underclassmen during the first year of the program to this year's record 28 senior scholar-athletes and 125 underclassmen. With the success of the program, Hopp and Naatz were asked to make a presentation about the growing program at the annual NCAA meeting in January in San Antonio, Texas.

At the end of the 2015 spring semester, more than 300 UW-Stout student-athletes had achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or more and the cumulative grade point average of Stout student-athletes was 3.24, Naatz reported. Over the last eight semesters, student-athlete cumulative GPAs have increased.

Each senior student-athlete invited an academic faculty or staff member to award ceremony who has had a signifcant impact on their time at UW-Stout, Guilfoile reported.

Lyons mentioned that in the UW-Stout athletic department annual report the No. 1 goal of the department is to improve the student-athlete experience, and this ceremony is part of that experience.

The medallion presented to each of the senior Scholar-Athletes was designed by former Blue Devil student-athletes Kate Mikutowski and Zak Snell. In addition, a large action poster of each senior Scholar-Athlete will be displayed in the Sports and Fitness Center during the upcoming year.

The Scholar Athlete Award program is supported by the offices of the Chancellor; Academic and Student Affairs; and Administrative and Student Life Services.

UW-Stout Recognized Student Athletes
Caleb Adams
Danielle Adams
Brett Ahsenmacher
Jared Allen
Alyssa Alward*
Rachael Anderson
Roselyn Anderson
Samuel Bach
Aryn Benn
Joshua Berres
Kayla Bertram*
Tyler Bethke
Emily Bialka
Thomas Blair
Christina Block*
Heather Bol
Cyan Bower
Michelle Brandt
Sydnee Braun
Molly Brion*
McKayla Brunner
Brady Burzynski*
Stephanie Cannon
Tony Cass*
Brandyn Christman
Megan Collins*
Callie Counts*
Jayde Curley
Zachary Dahl
Kyncaide Diedrich
Mariah Diercks
Bailey Diersen
Cole Dunphy
Lucas Eide
Jack Eitel
Isaac Ellliot
Katherine Enderby
Camille Fawcett
Carolyn Feddema
Brianna Ferguson
Cassandra Flackey
Matthew Flesher
Kaylee Francois
Stefani Friedenfels
Chelsea Gray
Morgan Gromowski
Justin Guarnaccio
Katelynn Hackl
Taylor Hanson
Rachel Hasting
Mark Hatcher
Kolton Hebbring
Kyleigh Hebert*
Jack Hemsath
Bethany Hennen
Justin Herbst
Rachel Hernandez
Trey Hewuse
Adam Heyer
Kyle Hoefft*
Chase Hollander
Jillian Holt
Rachel Horn
Jake Houghton
Mackenzie Hyde
Aleksandr Ilyushev
Jessica Ingle
Beau Jernberg
Austin Johnson
Caleb Johnson
Jacob Johnson*
Kate Johnson
Mara Jones
Sydney Kasper
Stephanie Kastens*
Joe Kleven
Jenna Kizlik*
Dylan Kline
Katie Kreibich
Jon Krueger
John Lahti
Anna Lano
Abigail Lapidakis-Schrader
Collin Laursen*
Sylvia Lechnir
Heidi Lieffort
Molly Loughrin
Christian Lucchesi
Danielle Magnuson*
Addy Maher*
Cody Marquardt
Lydia Meier
Laura Mesenburg*
Alicia Meyer
Ellen Miller
Emily Minniecheske*
Lucas Morgan
Bradley Myers
Tyler Nalbach
Jacob Nelson
Tyler Odom
Bailey Olson*
Michelle Olson
Samuel Ortmann
Garrett Peterson
Sara Perez*
Jessica Petruzates
Madeline Phyle
Stephanie Pladies
Jonathon Plaszcz
Alexandra Ploeger
Taylor Poss
Dillon Quest
Daniel Ressler
Drew Ringelstetter
Joshua Robinson
Nicole Rogers*
Parker Rongstad
Enzo Rosani
Troy Rudesill
Andrew Sabinash
Casey Sabinash
Nicholas Schmit
Sarah Schrom
Payton Schultz
Brendon Schumacher
Moira Schuneman*
Kristina Schurhammer*
Nicole Sedivy
Haley Seifert
Rachel Shirk
Courtney Smith*
Elizabeth Smith
Morgan Sweeney*
Shelby Terhell
Indy Thompson
Taran Tierney
Joseph Van Grinsven
Sarah Ulrich*
Kate Voracek
Jeffrey Wallace
Samuel Waters
Shannan Watkins
Haley Wentz
Katherine Whited
Alyssa Wieser
Mary Wileman
Sarah Willett*
Levi Wolf
Beth Wood
Tori Workman*
Sam Wouters
Kaitlin Woyak
*denotes senior scholar-athlete

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