Blue Devil scholar-athletes honored for academic achievements

UW-Stout Scholar-Athlete Program

MENOMONIE (March 19, 2019) - Thirty-seven UW-Stout senior scholar-athletes were honored Tuesday in an awards ceremony that also recognized 122 underclass scholar-athletes at the Memorial Student Center.

Those scholar-athletes honored were: Brad Rindfleisch (West Bend), Tanner Schmitt (Coon Valley), Zach Dahl (Buffalo, Minn), Bailey Diersen (Greenville), Carolyn Feddema (Hanover, Minn); Alex Ploeger (Milaca, Minn), Lucas Morgan (Cameron), Caleb Adams (Rochester, Minn), Brad Myers (Dodge Center, Minn), Levi Wolf (Elmwood), Mitchell Simonet (Hudson), Greg Restad (Prior Lake, Minn), Marie Allo (Newington, Conn), Chelsea Gray (Fitchburg), Mathias Ahman (Harnosand, Sweden), Sydney Kasper (Owatonna, Minn), Kaylee Francois (Green Bay), Alicia Meyer (Brooklyn Park, Minn), Ashley Mossuto (Grand View), Katelyn Schobert (Belmont), Linsey Thisius (Wells, Minn), Parker Rongstad (Osseo), Josh Freyholtz (Hammond), Andrea Bertram (Fond du Lac), Kristen Teupel (San Francisco, Calif), Kaitlin Mallek (Plover), Jillian Holt (Plum City), Alyson Wilcox (Bangor), Dan Ressler (Antioch, Ill), Sam Wouters (Green Bay), Stephanie Pladies (Big Bend), Jessica Petruzates (Clintonville), Emily Bialka (Cottage Grove, Minn), Kennedy Strain (Elk River, Minn), Nicole DeGrave (Ashwaubenon), Kayla Ignasiak (Muskego), Alexandra Houts (Wayzata, Minn).

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.

This is the eighth 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 37 senior scholar-athletes and 122 underclassmen.

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

At the end of the 2018 spring semester, 291 UW-Stout student-athletes had achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or more and the cumulative grade point average of 3.203 by Stout student-athletes exceeded the general student body for the eighth consecutive year, Naatz reported.

The student-athlete collective GPA has risen every year since 2009, when the GPA was a 2.90. A total of 162 student-athletes have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher, while 34 maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA.

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*
Mathias Ahman*
Marie Allo*
Markie Ash
Jace Baumann
Sierra Beaver
Kelly Beck
Heather Beecher
Brooke Belleville
Andrea Bertram*
Emily Bialka*
Kayley Bibber
Sam Bibbs
Drake Biolo
Brandon Bohl
Caylee Boone
Peter Brey
Melea Bruns
Jacob Bugella
Bailee Bussan
Evan Butcher
Stephanie Cannon
Eliza Carman
Lucas Carroll
Kayla Chamberlain
Sierra Coonts
Riley Crotteau
Zachary Dahl*
Alyssa Dalke
Nicole DeGrave*
Daniel Deis
Sarah Dickmann
Bailey Diersen*
Jessica DuVal
Tyler Ellefson
Carolyn Feddema*
Rebecca Fesenmaier
Alexa Filipiak
Parker Fossum
Kaylee Francois*
Joshua Freyholtz*
Timothy Grambo
Chelsea Gray*
Cannon Griner
Kara Griswold
Trey Hake
Korin Hall
Anna Hall
Leah Healy
Jack Hemsath
Justin Herbst
John Hess
Jack Hoaby
McKylie Hoff
Jillian Holt*
Mackenzie Hyde
Kayla Ignasiak*
Emily Jacques
Matthew Johnson
Maxwell Johnson
Shannon Jones
Sydney Kasper*
Dillon Keller
Meghan Kelly
Mariah Kent
Hannah Kirchner
Haruki Kiyohara
Ethan Kjellberg
Madelyn Kleinschmidt
Kennedy Kleist
Allison Klotz
Jack Kolar
Kate Koster
Alexis Kramer
Adam Kresl
Ariel Kuchta
Victoria Lammar
Mariah Lang
Shelby Larson
Arturas Laukaitis
Cloe Lindh
Madison Lord
Landon Lushanko
Emily Makina
Kaitlin Mallek*
Brian Mathews
Grace Maurer
Megan McClay
Rex Meikle
Alicia Meyer*
Lauren Mickley
Haydon Miller
Carson Moe
Lucas Morgan*
Ashley Mossuto*
Renee Murphy
Addison Murry
Bradley Myers*
Alex Nagel
Nicole Nelson
Daniel Nesja
Eric Neuwirth
Elizabeth Olsem
Ethan Olson
Elizabeth Oswald
Madison Otto
Colton Pahnke
James Palmer
Garret Parks
Isabella Pedlar
Lindsay Penkala
Molly Perkins
Kaylee Peterson
Jessica Petruzates*
Stephanie Pladies
Alexandra Ploeger*
Mason Priebe
John Rashid
Daniel Ressler*
Gregory Restad*
Jason Richardson
Bradley Rindfleisch*
Amber Ripley
Thomas Roble
Parker Rongstad*
Bailey Roux
Bennett Rozek
Skyler Ruetz
Matthew Ryan
Kammon Sawtelle
Samantha Scheller
Spencer Schmidt
Courtney Schmitt
Tanner Schmitt*
Katelyn Schobert*
Mitchell Simonet*
Kara Simonson
Raelin Sorensen
Kennedy Strain*
Hailey Szalewski
Kristen Teupel*
Adrianna Thiele
Linsey Thisius*
Dawson Tusow
Joseph Van Grinsven
Marissa Van Tassel
Benjamin Vanhove
Tomi Varjonen
Brandon Vecchio
Jhani Walker
Grace Wallstead
Shannan Watkins
Alyson Wilcox
Douglas Wilson
Levi Wolf*
Sam Wouters*
Noah Zastrow
Samantha Ziwicki
*denotes senior scholar-athlete