Hurricane Student-Athletes Earn Best-Ever Semester GPA
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami student-athletes set new academic standards during the spring semester, producing the best semester and cumulative GPA the Hurricanes have ever recorded.
Fourteen of Miami’s 18 teams earned at least a 3.00 or better semester GPA and 22 student-athletes had a perfect 4.00 GPA in the spring. Overall, 172 student-athletes earned at least a 3.0 semester GPA and 135 student-athletes earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll recognition.
“Our Hurricane student-athletes are to be applauded,” said David Wyman, Associate Athletic Director for Academic Services. “They are consistently producing excellent results in the classroom as they set GPA, APR and graduation rate records for our institution. I am tremendously proud of them and our coaches for achieving these awesome results.”
Women’s cross country posted the best mark of all of the teams, a 3.63 GPA, the second-highest team GPA ever recorded at UM. The men’s cross country team set their academic bar higher by recording the best-ever male team GPA at 3.53.
Four squads earned team-best GPAs, including football and volleyball with their best GPA ever, men’s outdoor track with a team-best spring GPA and women’s track with its top semester GPA in school history.
Baseball, men’s basketball and soccer each posted second-best spring GPAs while baseball and hoops also overall had their best academic years.
Overall, UM women had a semester GPA of 3.21 and cumulative GPA of 3.19 and Hurricane men earned a semester GPA of 2.75 and a cumulative GPA of 2.69.
The seven teams with a 3.0 semester GPA or better are women’s swimming and diving (3.36), women’s tennis (3.26), men’s indoor track and field (3.22), golf (3.14), men’s diving (3.13), rowing (3.09) and men’s tennis (3.04).
Below are lists of University of Miami academic awards and honors for the 2010-2011 campaign.
Student-athletes with a 4.0 GPA in the fall 2010 semester
M. Basketball – Julian Gamble
Football – DeMarcus Van Dyke
M. Tennis – Christian Blocker
M. Tennis – Santiago Nieto
W. Cross Country – Anna Bona
W. Cross Country – Danielle Glynn
W. Cross Country – Emma Steppe
W. Track & Field – Lauren Phipps
Golf – Carina Cuculiza
Rowing – Olivia Smith
Soccer – Barbara Blocker
Soccer – Nichole Chandler
Soccer – Brittney Steinbruch
Swimming – Dana Hatic
Swimming – Ryann Labreche
Diving – Brittany Viola
W. Tennis – Bianca Eichkorn
Volleyball – Lane Carico
Volleyball – Mariel Schofield
Volleyball – Nrithya Sundararaman
Volleyball – Christine Williamson
2010-2011 ESPN Academic All Americans
Brittney Macdonald – First Team – All District, Third Team – National – Soccer
Brittney Steinbruch – Second Team – All District – Soccer
Lane Carico – First Team – All District- Volleyball
2011 ACC Postgraduate Scholars
Brittney Macdonald – Soccer
Deidre Novotny – Swimming
Brittany Viola – Diving
2011 All-ACC Academic Honors
Ashlee Burt, Soccer
Brittney Macdonald, Soccer
Brittney Steinbruch, Soccer
Katie Gallagher, Volleyball
Alexandria Johnson, Volleyball
Ray-Ray Armstrong, Football
Patrick Hill, Football
Ryan Hill, Football
Stefanie Yderstrom, Basketball
Erik Swoope, Basketball
Adrian Thomas, Basketball
Maria Ronderos, Golf
Samuel Dorman, Diving
Sofia Johansson, Swimming
Lindsay Lester, Diving
Annika Saarnak, Swimming
Brittany Viola, Diving – Scholar Athlete of the Year
Thea Vock, Diving
Katalin Horvath, Rowing
Sarah Medland, Rowing
Bianca Eichkorn, W. Tennis – Scholar Athlete of the Year
Anna Bartenstein, W. Tennis
Gabriela Mejia, W. Tennis
Christian Blocker, M. Tennis
Alyssa McClure, W. Indoor Track and Field
Megan Novinger, W. Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field
Miranda Wilson, W. Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field
55th Annual ACC Honor Roll
Comprised of student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.00 or better for the full academic year.
Sam Abrams, Baseball
Connor Adams, Cross Country
Vikki Alonzo, Soccer
Tatiana Alvarez, Volleyball
Omar Aly, Tennis
Maria Andersson, Volleyball
Ray Ray Armstrong, Football
Lindsi Arrington, Cross Country
Anna Bartenstein, Tennis
Ali Becker, Volleyball
Jenna Beyer, Swimming
Barbara Blocker, Soccer
Christian Blocker, Tennis
Anna Bona, Cross Country
Crisitna Brea, Cross Country
Ben Bruneau, Football
Sylvia Bullock, Basketball
John Calhoun, Football
Bethany Callahan, Rowing
Damon Campbell, Cross Country
Lane Carico, Volleyball
Alicia Casillas, Swimming
Nichole Chandler, Soccer
Olivia Ching, Soccer
Britney Clarke, Track
Michael Coogan, Cross Country
Ariell Cooke, Volleyball
Casey Crist, Cross Country
Christina Crocco, Rowing
Carina Cuculiza, Golf
Cameron Dean, Football
Samuel Dorman, Swimming
Brooke Dovell, Cross Country
Carrie Dragland, Swimming
Brittany Dubins, Tennis
Ashley Dukes, Track
Amanda DuPart, Rowing
Bianca Eichkorn, Tennis
Bassim El-Sabawi, Track
Christina Echagarruga, Rowing
Jennifer Estime, Cross Country
Alexis Fee, Swimming
Diana Fisher, Golf
Luke Fontaine, Cross Country
Katie Gallagher, Volleyball
Julia Giampaolo, Volleyball
Danielle Glynn, Cross Country
Sean Goldstein, Football
Kelley Griffin, Soccer
Evan Hadrick, Track
Lizzie Hale, Volleyball
Dana Hatic, Swimming
Breanna Hayton, Rowing
Justin Heller, Basketball
Patrick Hill, Football
Christina Hirano, Golf
Tyler Horn, Football
Elyse Houston, Track
Katalin Horvath, Rowing
Kate Howarth, Soccer
Kim Hutchinson, Soccer
Chris Ivory, Football
Lauren Jacoby, Swimming
Corey Janson, Baseball
JaCee Jarnagin, Track
Sofia Johansson, Swimming
Alexandria Johnson, Volleyball
Greg Kaczka, Cross Country
Courtney Kimmey, Cross Country
Caitlin Knapp, Cross Country
David Kuhrt, Track
Ryann Labreche, Swimming
Brian Laskowski, Track
Lindsay Lester, Swimming
Jennifer Levine, Rowing
Jeff Brandon-Lewis, Track
Erik Lichter, Football
Brittney Macdonald, Soccer
Elescia McGee, Volleyball
Sarah Medland, Rowing
Gabriela Mejia, Tennis
Nathan Melendres, Baseball
Roxanne Meyer, Swimming
Charles Michel, Cross Country
Jess Morrell, Rowing
Kirsten Myers, Track
Cory Nelms, Football
Haley Nicholson, Swimming
Katherine Nicholson, Swimming
Santiago Nieto, Tennis
Megan Novinger, Track
Deidre Novotny, Swimming
Garrett Nygren, Track
Katie Oddo, Soccer
Chris Pelaez, Baseball
Sean Pezzulo, Cross Country
Lauren Phipps, Track
Thomas Powers, Baseball
Ryan Quigtar, Basketball
Austin Rector, Track
Julia Reisner, Rowing
Julianne Rickers, Soccer
Kayla Rizzolo, Tennis
Maria Ronderos, Golf
Michael Rudman, Baseball
Annika Saarnak, Swimming
Monika Sajincic, Rowing
Javi Salas, Baseball
AJ Salcines, Baseball
Mariel Schofield, Volleyball
Tara Schwitter, Soccer
Jeremiah Sheehy, Track
Megan Siebert, Soccer
David Simon, Tennis
Emani Sims, Volleyball
Susan Smiddy, Swimming
Danielle Smith, Rowing
Kayla Smith, Swimming
Stephen Smith, Track
Lauren Singer, Soccer
Katie Stanzilis, Rowing
Brittney Steinbruch, Soccer
Whitney Stephenson, Swimming
Emma Steppe, Cross Country
Blake Stockton, Soccer
Carl Sundberg, Tennis
Jackie Sullivan, Cross Country
Nrithya Sundararaman, Volleyball
Stephen Swartz, Track
Erik Swoope, Basketball
Megan Talay, Track
Hannah Tatro, Soccer
Adrian Thomas, Basketball
Jordan Tolson, Football
Brooke Van Aman, Soccer
Brittany Viola, Swimming
Thea Vock, Swimming
William Waldon, Track
Spencer Whipple, Football
Scott Wiebel, Baseball
Christine Williamson, Volleyball
Matthew Wilson, Track
Miranda Wilson, Track
Emily Wingrove, Rowing
Phil Wood, Cross Country
Katherine Woodard, Cross Country
Nicole Wright, Swimming
Stefanie Yderstrom, Basketball
Dani Yuska, Rowing
