HORIZON LEAGUE RELEASE
INDIANAPOLIS – Northern Kentucky University Athletics had 110 student-athletes named to the 2023 Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll, announced by the conference office on Thursday afternoon.
For the Spring 2023 semester, NKU student-athletes achieved a 3.52 department-wide GPA, the highest posted by the program in school history and the second straight semester in which NKU student-athletes combined to set a new program best.
It was the 24th straight semester of an athletics department GPA of 3.0 or higher and the 18th consecutive semester that featured a department GPA of 3.2 or better. To go even further, it was also the 12th straight semester in which NKU student-athletes finished with a GPA of 3.37 or higher.
Every single sport offering at NKU earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the Spring, led by women's volleyball (3.71) and women's golf (3.71). Women's tennis (3.67), women's soccer (3.66), women's cross country (3.65), women's softball (3.63) and women's track & field (3.58) also posted high marks while the top men's GPAs belonged to track & field (3.49), cross country (3.48) and soccer (3.45).
Men's track & field, men's cross country and men's basketball (3.22) all set new program records for best cumulative GPA recorded during a single semester.
In total, NKU had 40 student-athletes earn President's Honors status (recorded a GPA of 4.0 while attempting 12 or more credits), and an additional 77 awarded Dean's List honors (a GPA of 3.6-3.99). Forty-five student-athletes, or 19 percent of the department, finished with a perfect 4.0 GPA for the Spring semester.
Overall, 210 student-athletes posted a GPA of 3.0 or higher, which was 88.99 percent of the department.
To be eligible for the Horizon League Academic Honor Roll, student-athletes must have participated in the most recent season of their sport, completed at least three semesters as a full-time student at the intuition and have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20.
The Horizon League had 1,264 student-athletes make the Honor Roll for the Spring 2023 semester and Northern Kentucky was one of just six programs in the conference that had 100-plus student-athletes honored as Honor Roll recipients.
NKU's honorees are listed below by sport:
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BASEBALL (11): Michael Bohlen,
Kaden Echeman,
Noah Fisher,
Kyle Klingenbeck,
Zack Minton,
Treyvin Moss,
Andrew Mulhern,
John Odom,
Brandon Tucker,
Manny Vorhees,
Jayden Wakeham
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SOFTBALL (15): Sydni Barnes,
Tatum Biddle,
Hannah Colbert,
Madisyn Eads,
Alicia Flores,
Charly Koehler,
Maddie Lacer,
Ella LeMonier,
Megan Lenhart,
Kaylee McGinn,
Mackenzie Mitchell,
Jenna O'Hair,
Olivia Pastin,
Trinity Robertson,
Payton Welch
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MEN'S BASKETBALL (2): Hubertas Pivorius,
Sam Vinson
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (8): Lindsey Duvall,
Paige Hodgson,
Kennedy Igo,
Tayah Irvin,
Khamari Mitchell-Steen,
Emmy Souder,
Ellie Taylor,
Ivy Turner
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MEN'S GOLF (2): Alex Doss,
Ryan Mitts
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WOMEN'S GOLF (6): Gracie Baun,
Brooke Bihl,
Abby Cook,
Rachel DiDonato,
Emmanuelle Hewson,
Reagan Nolan
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MEN'S SOCCER (9): Roberto Burlew,
Ryan Godding,
Kyle Healy,
Ben Hegge,
Stian Jørgensen,
Samuel Nwosu,
Sam Robinson,
Brodie Sallows,
Craig Wellens
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WOMEN'S SOCCER (12): Taylor Abbott,
Annie Greene,
Macy Harper,
Mickayla Kowalski,
Jamie Lehker,
Lily Menssen,
Lydia Self,
Megan Sullivan,
Emily Tirey,
Shelby Wall,
Sofia Wilmes,
Kayla Wypasek
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MEN'S TENNIS (4): Trevor Ball,
Tom Berry,
Vincent Knott,
Brandon Ponomarew
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WOMEN'S TENNIS (5): Sylvia Gray,
Ananya Kothakota,
Elizabeth Rozin,
Laura Sola Grau,
Sonia Tandelova
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MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD (7): Ethan Ennis,
Will Griffith,
Kyle Mastin,
Owen Mathews,
Noah Pease,
Noah Slone,
Liam Ehrman
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WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK & FIELD (18): Mikela Aynedjian,
Chloe Boa,
Megan Cole,
Sophia DeLisio,
Hope Erbach,
Megan Kelter,
Jacquelyn Witt,
Nelle Yankovich,
Andrea Armstrong,
Joi Bradley,
Makenzie Cooper,
Tahlea Harris,
Maria Kinnett,
Erika Nageleisen,
Sophia Nielsen,
Julia Pohl,
Jailyn Ross,
Megan Sullivan
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VOLLEYBALL (11): Reilly Briggs,
Anna Brinkmann,
Anna Burke,
Lucy Cluxton,
Zoe Epplen,
Torie Houston,
Sequoia Hunt,
Abby Kanakry,
Lillian Leiner,
Skyy Smith,
Katy Yopko
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