K-State Sees 58 Student-Athletes Earn Undergraduate Degrees
(Courtesy of Kansas State Athletics)
MANHATTAN, Kan. – As various colleges around Kansas State University hold spring commencement exercises virtually on Saturday, among those receiving undergraduate degrees will be 58 current or former Wildcat student-athletes.
Highlighting the 58 graduates on the weekend are: 17 from the track and field squads, 15 from football, nine from the rowing team, five soccer student-athletes, four men’s basketball players, three from baseball and one apiece from men’s golf, volleyball, women’s basketball, women’s golf and tennis.
In addition to the 58 graduates this spring, the Wildcats also saw 21 student-athletes receive their diplomas in December after the fall term. Also, 10 student-athletes earned master’s degrees this spring, while another earned a second undergraduate degree.
K-State student-athletes combined for 162 Academic All-Big 12 citations during the 2019-20 school year, including a program records for football (32), soccer (17) and baseball (13). Headlining the group were a pair of Big 12 Scholar-Athletes of the Year in Adam Holtorf (football) and Peyton Williams (women’s basketball). Both student-athletes, in addition to volleyball’s Brynn Carlson, earned Academic All-America honors.
K-State also had seven student-athletes earn the 10th annual Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, which is the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor.
Kansas State had a total of 258 K-State student-athletes named to the Fall 2019 Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll, which marked the 24th-straight semester K-State tallied at least 200. Of the 258 K-State student-athletes earning the citation for their academic excellence, 77 registered a GPA of 4.0 in the fall semester.
SPRING 2020 STUDENT-ATHLETE GRADUATES:
BASEBALL
Luke Bay – Kinesiology
Chris Ceballos – Communication Studies
Caleb Littlejim – Kinesiology
FOOTBALL
Nick Ast – Marketing
Wesley Burris – Finance
Justin Eichman – Management
Adam Harter – Finance
Ryan Henington – Professional Strategic Selling
Andrew Hicks – Social Sciences
Eli Huggins – Finance
Noah Johnson – Marketing
Nick Lenners – Management
Bronson Massie – Communication Studies
Mike McCoy – Human Development & Family Science
Walter Neil Jr. – Kinesiology
AJ Parker – Kinesiology
Darreyl Patterson – Human Development & Family Science
Harry Trotter – Kinesiology
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Cartier Diarra – Human Development & Family Science
James Love – Human Development & Family Science
Makol Mawien – Communication Studies
Xavier Sneed – Organization Management
MEN’S GOLF
Jacob Eklund – Organization Management
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Nick Albus – Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management
Aaron Booth – Management
Sam Dreiling – Electrical Engineering
Simone Fassina – Food Science and Industry
Cameron Lewis – Organizational Management
Brett Neelly – Mechanical Engineering
Ethan Powell – History/Political Science
Thomas Pyle – Mechanical Engineering
Derek Selk – Park Management and Conservation
ROWING
Mikaela Bennett – Nutritional Sciences
Logan Frost – Life Sciences and Gerontology
Caroline Geither – Kinesiology and Gerontology
Aubrey Gilchrist – Microbiology
Rachel Haskell – Kinesiology and Social Sciences
Emily Johnson – Animal Science and Industry/Biology
Natasha Johnson – Mechanical Engineering
Catherine Leavitt – Architectural Engineering
Morgan Thompson – Animal Sciences and Industry
VOLLEYBALL
Brynn Carlson – Kinesiology/Nutrition and Health
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL/VOLLEYBALL
Peyton Williams – Anthropology and International Studies
WOMEN’S GOLF
Chloe Weir – Human Development & Family Science
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Katie Cramer – Kinesiology
Laramie Hall – Psychology
Emma Malsy – Biology
Aly Rocha – Family Studies & Human Services
Ashley Zane – Kinesiology
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Meghan King – Organizational Management
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Asha Cave – Accounting
Anna Keeley – Mathematics
Shardia Lawrence – Family Studies & Human Services
Erin Lee – Natural Resource and Environmental Science
Ranae McKenzie – Nutrition and Kinesiology
Shanae McKenzie – Nutrition and Kinesiology
Ashley Petr – Animal Science and Industry
Emma Wren – Architectural Engineering
SPRING 2020 MASTER’S GRADUATES:
Kyle Ball (football) – Data Analytics
Sarah Dixon (volleyball) – Teaching-Elementary Education
Evan Curl (football) – MBA with a concentration Data Analytics
Blaise Gammon (football) – MBA
Denzel Goolsby (football) – MBA with a concentration Marketing
Adam Holtorf (football) – MBA with a concentration Data Analytics
Pierson McAtee (men’s basketball) – Accounting
Tyler Mitchell (football) – Accounting
Dalton Schoen (football) – Data Analytics
Taylor Smith (men’s track and field) – MBA with a concentration Data Analytics
Madison Rebel (rowing) – second undergraduate degree in sociology-criminology
