L-R Leads The Way With 95 Student-Athletes Earning 2011-12 SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll Accolades
June 18, 2012
All 14 sports represented by the Bears including a program-best 23 members of the football team
Rock Hill, S.C. - Lenoir-Rhyne University netted a league-high 95 student-athletes on the 2011-12 South Atlantic Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll which was released Monday by the SAC office.
All 14 sports for the Bears were represented including a program-best 23 football players.
All 10 SAC member institutions and each of the league’s 14 sponsored sports were represented on the 2011-12 honor roll as well for a total of 757 student-athletes.
To be eligible for the distinction, student-athletes must have lettered in a varsity SAC-sponsored sport and maintained a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher throughout the academic year.
“I’m proud to recognize each of these outstanding student-athletes for their hard work and dedication in the classroom,” said SAC Commissioner Patrick Britz.
“The achievements of such an impressive number of student-athletes are a testament to our schools’ efforts to develop these young men and women academically in addition to athletically.”
Mars Hill and Tusculum finished with the next-highest number of honor roll selections with 84 and 81, respectively. They were followed by Newberry with 75 and Catawba with 74.
Carson-Newman, Lincoln Memorial and Wingate each placed 70 student-athletes on the honor roll, while Anderson and Brevard had 69.
Included in the 757 honor roll selections were seven SAC Players of the Year and five SAC Freshmen of the Year from 2011-12.
The SAC Players of the Year to earn honor roll distinction were Justin Gragg (Mars Hill men’s cross country), Kate Griewisch (Lenoir-Rhyne women’s cross country), Catherine Hauck (L-R women’s soccer), Liz Willis (Wingate volleyball), Liam Ashby (Carson-Newman men’s golf), Maria Luz Besio (Newberry women’s golf) and Craig Goodman (Tusculum baseball).
They were joined by SAC Freshmen of the Year Madison Hill (Brevard women’s cross country), Hanna Kiebel (L-R women’s soccer), Lexi Potter (WU volleyball), Emee Herbert (TC women’s golf) and Lukas Winkelmann (TC men’s tennis).
