Michael MacEachern
Assistant Director of Athletics for Sports Communications
Young Harris College had 209 student-athletes named to the Peach Belt Conference's Presidential Honor Roll.
The Mountain Lions tied their previous high of 209 set during the 2016-17 season. Young Harris had the second highest total in the league, only behind Lander University's 238 total.
The PBC announced that 1,764 student-athletes were named to the Presidential Honor Roll and gives the Peach Belt 1,000 or more honorees for the 11th year in a row. Each student-athlete will receive a certificate from the conference office.
The Presidential Honor Roll recognizes all student-athletes at the 12 PBC member institutions in the league's 16 NCAA championship sports who had a grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the academic year. The honor roll has been divided into four groups: Presidential Scholars, Bronze Scholars, Silver Scholars and Gold Scholars. All student-athletes with a GPA from 3.0 to 3.24 are Presidential Scholars while Bronze Scholars are 3.25 to 3.49, Silver Scholars are 3.50 to 3.74 and Gold Scholars are those with a 3.75 to 4.00. The Mountain Lions had 63 student-athletes named as Gold Scholars to go along with the 39 Silver Scholars, 57 Bronze Scholars and 50 Presidential Scholars.
The baseball team led the way for the Mountain Lions with 41 student-athletes being named to the honor roll, edging out men's soccer with 37. Softball had 28 named to the Presidential Honor Roll with women's soccer (27) right behind. Men's and women's basketball each had 12, while men's tennis (10) and women's volleyball (10) finished in double figures. Men's cross country each had eight followed by women's cross country (7), women's tennis (6), men's golf (5), women's golf (5) and men's lacrosse (1).
Below are the members of the PBC Presidential Honor Roll from Young Harris:
Gold Scholars: Jacob Autry (baseball), Zach Burns (baseball), Rome Wallace (baseball); Chase Webb (baseball), Brice Austin (baseball); Brentan Newberry (baseball), Jake Varner (baseball), Matt Kiatipis (men's basketball), Jakob Brown (men's cross country), Nhan Le (men's cross country), Thomas Mellendorf (men's cross country); Luke Surowiec (men's cross country), John Lichtenwalner (men's golf), Eduardo D'Avino (men's soccer), Alex Gschwend (men's soccer), Adam Kirkwood (men's soccer), Ali Koller (men's soccer), Seba Andreassen (men's soccer), Ala Ramadan (men's soccer), Riccardo Sambugaro (men's soccer), Henrik Timgren (men's soccer), Yesin van der Pluijm (men's soccer), Garrett Ellis (men's soccer), Tristin Sewell (men's soccer), Raul Soto (men's soccer), John Brett (men's tennis), Ethan Carter (men's tennis), Eric DelValle (men's tennis), Romeo Luque (men's tennis), Herman Ronnberg (men's tennis), Alex Schiltz (men's tennis), Ashton Sosebee (men's tennis), Haylie Shope (softball), Morgan Curley (softball), Sam Davis (softball), Katelynn Hodges (softball), Karah Straub (softball), Biz Walters (softball), Hannah Emerson (jv softball), Maddie Green (jv softball), Olivia Tucker (women's basketball), Zoe Freke (women's cross country), Kiera Lewis (women's cross country), Mirian Santiesteban-Pizarro (women's cross country), Emma Andersson (women's golf), Erica Andersson (women's golf), Hannah Behner (women's soccer), Cassidy Campbell (women's soccer), Aimee Durn (women's soccer), Olivia Gilleland (women's soccer), Morgan Kasel (women's soccer), Jasmin Keller (women's soccer); Pien Van Kampen (women's soccer), Britt Verstegen (women's soccer), Kiera Lewis (women's soccer), Abby Peacock (women's soccer), Juli Boerr (women's tennis), Jing Dong (women's tennis), Zoe Freke (women's tennis), Leanna Wood (women's tennis), Alex Boydstone (women's volleyball), Kristen Trice (women's volleyball), Izzy Zamora (women's volleyball)
Silver Scholars: Michael Buice (baseball), Chris Cuppini (baseball), Wes Glass (baseball), Brody Meeks (baseball), Kyle Turner (baseball), Logan Worley (baseball), Trenton Rhinehart (baseball), Alex Youngblood (baseball), Anthony Rosier (men's basketball), Hayden Durrett (men's cross country), David Frank (men's golf), Mark Guevara (men's soccer), Christian Kirchhoff (men's soccer), Spenser McCannon (men's soccer), Pato Padilla (men's soccer), Cesar Chiguil (men's soccer), Ignacio Ascarrunz (men's tennis) Ruben Gonzalez (men's tennis), Kash Reddiyar (men's tennis), Ireland Cavanaugh (softball), Carly Rigsbee (softball), Jill Torres (softball), Cassidy Cook (softball), Teresa Dixon (softball), Maggie Adebanjo (women's basketball), Thalia Carter (women's basketball), Lindsey Caudell (women's basketball), Samantha Matthews (women's basketball), Samantha Russell (women's basketball), Grace Underhill (women's basketball), Emma Agermo (women's golf), Kelsie Floyd (women's soccer), Natisha John (women's soccer), Thea Juul (women's soccer), Madison Putzer (women's soccer), Payton Putzer (women's soccer), Georgia Miller (women's soccer), Emily DeBerry (women's volleyball), Kori Still (women's volleyball)
Bronze Scholars: Zac Bright (baseball), Luke Cartenuto (baseball), Dahlton Cash (baseball), Marco Colina (baseball), Joey Curry (baseball), Brandon Jolliff (baseball), Keith Lyle (baseball), Dylan Nix (baseball), Jeb Cook (baseball), Griffin Lyell (baseball), Jared McCullough (baseball), Carl Cleveland (men's basketball), Brian Free (men's basketball), Seth McCoy (men's basketball), Griffin Neville (men's basketball), Ja'Michael Boone (men's basketball), Jackson Lazenby (men's cross country), Kai Vigardt (men's cross country), Martin Kjellser (men's golf), Federico Gutierrez (men's soccer), Tyler Kasten (men's soccer), Ibrahim Khan (men's soccer), Moshe Mesika (men's soccer), Alex Sanchez (men's soccer), James Webster (men's soccer), M.J. Upchurch (men's soccer), Shea Bayreuther (softball), Michalyn Bingham (softball), Ellie Bridge (softball), Jordan Campagnolo (softball), Natalie Corbin (softball), Jill Dixon (softball), Alanna Dunson (softball), Emily Harris (softball), Sara King (softball), Lilly Barlow (softball), Lauren Bell (softball), Alicia Guinn (softball), Andelin Hill (women's basketball), Avery Jordan (women's basketball), Kayla Soublet (women's basketball), Chayil Aponte (women's cross country), Caroline Conner (women's cross country), Peyton Rich (women's golf), Tess Aubry (women's soccer), Anika Elias (women's soccer), Mckenna Peaster (women's soccer), Alexis Scarpinato (women's soccer), Sam Van Ness (women's soccer), Cynthia Jackson (women's soccer), Morganna Oberdorfer (women's soccer), Jessica Beckner (women's volleyball), Mikaila Chappelear (women's volleyball),
Amber Cunningham (women's volleyball), Kallee McKinney (women's volleyball)
Presidential Scholars: Levi Ayers (baseball), Dawson Barnes (baseball), Brady Caloway (baseball), Bailey Campbell (baseball), Tucker Daniel (baseball), Tucker Greer (baseball), Ryan Inches (baseball), Jackson Jones (baseball), Jackson Kemp (baseball), Steven Spell (baseball), Seth Bennett (baseball), Micah Bettis (baseball), Josh Deal (baseball), Noah Noonan (baseball), Mason Toole (baseball), Noah Osebor (men's basketball), Caleb Towns (men's basketball), Jared Gaines (men's basketball), Alfonzo Hilliard (men's basketball), Trevor Pendergrass (men's basketball), Axel Baleon-Ruiz (men's cross country), Tobias Jonsson (men's golf), Isak Ljungkvist (men's golf), Jacob Haas (men's lacrosse), Patrick Griffin (men's soccer), Ben Mackay (men's soccer), Sondre Olsen (men's soccer), Amir Rabiei (men's soccer), Quinn Thompson (men's soccer), Joel Whittingham (men's soccer), Scott Woods (men's soccer), Zamal Mallebranche (men's soccer), Matthew Moore (men's soccer), Logan Phillips (men's soccer), Ayden Williams (men's soccer), Lindley Bruce (softball), Kaselyn Martin (softball), Kayleigh Russell (softball), Bria Clemmons (women's basketball), Jamiah Mott (women's basketball), Catarina Marcko Ferreira (women's cross country), Morgan Withers (women's cross country), Sarah Comer (women's golf), Helen Hudgins (women's soccer), Nya Moses (women's soccer), Veronica Pablo-Raymundo (women's soccer), Trudy Ward (women's soccer), Catarina Marcko Ferreira (women's tennis), Rilee Marler (women's tennis), Marie Ahern (women's volleyball)