Wildcat Student-Athletes Earn Degrees
May 18, 2019 | Athletics
MANHATTAN, Kansas – Kansas State University will hold its spring commencement exercises on Saturday and among those receiving degrees will be 56 current or former Wildcat student-athletes.
Highlighting the 56 graduates on the weekend are: 18 from football, nine from the track and field squads, seven from rowing, five men's basketball student-athletes, four each from men's golf and volleyball, three from women's soccer, two from baseball and women's tennis, and one from women's basketball and equestrian.
K-State, a Tier 1 Carnegie Foundation Institution, has had another outstanding academic year in 2018-19. In addition to the 55 graduates this spring, the Wildcats saw 29 student-athletes receive their diplomas in December of 2018.
Kansas State saw 29 student-athletes graduate in December of 2018. To date K-State student-athletes have been recognized with the following honors: 130 Academic All-Big 12 recipients which includes record numbers for football, soccer and volleyball. Football's Dalton Risner was named a finalist for the Campbell Trophy, the Wuerffel Trophy and the Senior CLASS Award while also earning the Allstate/American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team.
In addition, football's Adam Holtorf and Zach Reuter and women's basketball's Peyton Williams were named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District VII team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Williams collected the Big 12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's basketball.
K-State also had 10 student-athletes earn the ninth annual Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, which is the Big 12 Conference's highest academic honor.
Kansas State also had a total of 234 K-State student-athletes named to the Fall 2018 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll. The 234 student-athletes to earn the honor marked the 19th straight semester K-State has placed 200 or more student-athletes on the honor roll.
Of the 234 K-State student-athletes earning the citation for their academic excellence, 43 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 2019 STUDENT-ATHLETE GRADUATES:
BASEBALL
Rainer Ausmus – Social Sciences
Brogan Heinen - Management
EQUESTRIAN
Halle Kutsche – Mechanical Engineering
FOOTBALL
Devin Anctil – Management
Kyle Ball – Finance
Abdul Beechum – Family Studies and Human Services
Tyler Burns – Social Sciences
Evan Curl – Mechanical Engineering
Trey Dishon – Social Sciences
Jonathan Durham – Marketing
Scott Frantz – Secondary Education/Social Sciences
Denzel Goolsby – Prof Strategic Selling
Blake Lynch – Finance
Nick McLellan – Kinesiology
Tyler Mitchell – Accounting
Brock Monty – Finance
Dalton Schoen – Mechanical Engineering
Elijah Sullivan – Communication Studies
David Tullis – Secondary Education/Social Studies
Skyler Thompson – Management
Elijah Walker - Management
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Barry Brown – Family Studies & Human Services
Pierson McAtee – Finance and Accounting
Patrick Muldoon – Management
Kamau Stokes – Kinesiology
Dean Wade – Social Sciences
MEN'S GOLF
JC Campbell – Marketing
Ben Fernandez – Finance
Jeremy Gandon – Finance
Roland Massimino - Finance
MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Max Estill – Entrepreneurship
Natron Gipson – Family Studies & Human Services
Josepth Gorthy – Industrial Engineering
Kurtis Loevenstein – Kinesiology and Gerontology/Pre-PT
Taylor Smith - Economics
ROWING
Maggie Burg – Electrical Engineering
Allie Kleinsmith – Social Sciences
Jordan Lund – Chemical Engineering
Madison Rebel – Biology
Grace Reilly – Biochemistry
Samantha Samskey – Food Science & Industry
Samantha Scott – Architectural Engineering
VOLLEYBALL
Sarah Dixon – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Devan Fairfield – Elementary Education
Zsofia Gyimes – Management
Reilly Killeen – Kinesiology
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kali Jones – Sociology/Criminology
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Krista Haddock – Political Science
Megan Kalkofen – Communication Studies
Morgan Mauck – Physical Sciences
WOMEN'S TENNIS
Carolina Costamagna – Social Sciences
Carolina Lewis – Mass Communications/Digital Journalism
WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Morgan Coffman – Life Sciences
Rhizlane Siba – Social Sciences
A'Keyla Mitchell – Family Studies & Human Services
Claudette Allen – Family Studies & Human Services
