The Southeastern Conference 2022 Winter Academic Honor Roll includes 65 Gators.
Gators Place 65 on SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll
Friday, April 29, 2022 | General, Otis Hawkins Center
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida placed 65 student-athletes on the 2022 Southeastern Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll, announced Friday by league commissioner Greg Sankey.
The 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2021 Spring, Summer and Fall terms.
Florida's SEC champion men's swimming & diving program placed 21 on the list and the women's team had 24 earning spots on the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Florida equaled its program record with all 13 eligible for the honor from the 2022 SEC champion Gator gymnastics team earning SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades. Four from men's basketball and three from the women's team earned spots on the Academic Honor Roll.
Two swimmers who won Olympic medals last summer in Tokyo – Bobby Finke and Kieran Smith – earned spots on the Academic Honor Roll. Gymnast Leah Clapper turned in a 4.0 grade point average in graduate classes in 2021.
Seven on the 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll graduate with honors this weekend:
To be recognized to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, each student-athlete must 1) have a GPA of 3.00 for either the preceding academic year or have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution; 2) be on scholarship, a letterwinner or have participated on a varsity team for two years if non-scholarship; 3) have completed 24 semester hours of non-remedial credit at the nominating institution; and 4) have been a member of the varsity team for the sport's entire NCAA Championship segment.
The 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2021 Spring, Summer and Fall terms.
Florida's SEC champion men's swimming & diving program placed 21 on the list and the women's team had 24 earning spots on the SEC Academic Honor Roll. Florida equaled its program record with all 13 eligible for the honor from the 2022 SEC champion Gator gymnastics team earning SEC Academic Honor Roll accolades. Four from men's basketball and three from the women's team earned spots on the Academic Honor Roll.
Two swimmers who won Olympic medals last summer in Tokyo – Bobby Finke and Kieran Smith – earned spots on the Academic Honor Roll. Gymnast Leah Clapper turned in a 4.0 grade point average in graduate classes in 2021.
Seven on the 2022 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll graduate with honors this weekend:
- Cum Laude: Gabby Hillis (Swimming), Katie Minnich (Swimming), Lauren Snider (Swimming), Halley Taylor (gymnastics), Trinity Thomas (gymnastics), Ellie Zweifel (Swimming)
- Summa Cum Laude: Nick Lydon (Swimming
To be recognized to the SEC Academic Honor Roll, each student-athlete must 1) have a GPA of 3.00 for either the preceding academic year or have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or above at the nominating institution; 2) be on scholarship, a letterwinner or have participated on a varsity team for two years if non-scholarship; 3) have completed 24 semester hours of non-remedial credit at the nominating institution; and 4) have been a member of the varsity team for the sport's entire NCAA Championship segment.
| Name | Sport | Class | Major |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Duruji | Men's Basketball | Graduate | Education Sciences |
| Keyontae Johnson | Men's Basketball | Senior | Education Sciences |
| Alex Klatsky | Men's Basketball | Junior | Information Systems |
| Jack May | Men's Basketball | Sophomore | Sport Management |
| Brynn Farrell | Women's Basketball | Sophomore | Sport Management |
| Kristina Moore | Women's Basketball | Senior | Sport Management |
| Floor Toonders | Women's Basketball | Sophomore | Biology |
| Alyssa Baumann | Gymnastics | Graduate | Sport Management |
| Leah Clapper | Gymnastics | Graduate | Advertising |
| Chloi Clark | Gymnastics | Sophomore | Sport Management |
| Gabrielle Gallentine | Gymnastics | Sophomore | Health Education and Behavior |
| Sydney Johnson-Scharpf | Gymnastics | Senior | Digital Arts and Sciences |
| Ellie Lazzari | Gymnastics | Sophomore | Psychology |
| Alex Magee | Gymnastics | Sophomore | Journalism |
| Nya Reed | Gymnastics | Senior | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
| Payton Richards | Gymnastics | Junior | Family, Youth, & Community Sciences |
| Savannah Schoenherr | Gymnastics | Senior | Sport Management |
| Megan Skaggs | Gymnastics | Graduate | Master's in Entrepreneurship |
| Halley Taylor | Gymnastics | Senior | Criminology |
| Trinity Thomas | Gymnastics | Senior | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
| Amro Al-Wir | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Astrophysics |
| Adam Chaney | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Undecided Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Jace Crawford | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Economics |
| Will Davis | Men's Swimming | Senior | Sport Management |
| Mateusz Dubas | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Architecture |
| Bobby Finke | Men's Swimming | Senior | Construction Management |
| Trey Freeman | Men's Swimming | Senior | Sport Management |
| Eric Friese | Men's Swimming | Junior | Geography |
| Brennan Gravley | Men's Swimming | Junior | Sport Management |
| Erik Harper | Men's Swimming | Senior | Education Sciences |
| Nicholas Hernandez-Tome | Men's Swimming | Senior | Hispanic & Latin American Language, Literature & Linguistics |
| Dillon Hillis | Men's Swimming | Senior | Telecommunication |
| Wesley Hyde | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Biology |
| Billy Jones | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Electrical Engineering |
| Nick Lydon | Men's Swimming | Senior | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
| Alfonso Mestre | Men's Swimming | Junior | Finance |
| Advait Page | Men's Swimming | Junior | Sport Management |
| Kieran Smith | Men's Swimming | Senior | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
| Anton Svirskyi | Men's Diving | Junior | Biomedical Engineering |
| Jack VanDeusen | Men's Swimming | Sophomore | Geology |
| Kevin Vargas | Men's Swimming | Junior | Biology |
| Kirschtine Balbuena | Women's Swimming | Senior | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology |
| Talia Bates | Women's Swimming | Junior | Sustainability & the Built Environment |
| Elise Bauer | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Health Education and Behavior |
| Kenady Beil | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Landscape Architecture |
| Leah Braswell | Women's Swimming | Senior | History |
| Leah DeGeorge | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Biology |
| Kathleen Golding | Women's Swimming | Junior | Civil Engineering |
| Celi Guzman | Women's Swimming | Senior | Psychology |
| Ellie Hatton | Women's Swimming | Senior | Geography |
| Gabby Hillis | Women's Swimming | Senior | Natural Resource Conservation |
| Madison Kolessar | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Geography |
| Katie Mack | Women's Swimming | Junior | English |
| Tylor Mathieu | Women's Swimming | Junior | Psychology |
| Nikki Miller | Women's Swimming | Senior | Psychology |
| Katie Minnich | Women's Swimming | Senior | Psychology |
| Caroline Pagac | Women's Diving | Sophomore | Psychology |
| Vanessa Pearl | Women's Swimming | Senior | Marine Sciences |
| Allie Piccirillo | Women's Swimming | Junior | Health Education and Behavior |
| Amanda Ray | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Biology |
| Lain Shahboz | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Sociology |
| Lauren Snider | Women's Diving | Senior | Biomedical Engineering |
| Rosie Zavaros | Women's Swimming | Senior | Psychology |
| Mabel Zavaros | Women's Swimming | Sophomore | Geography |
| Ellie Zweifel | Women's Swimming | Senior | Economics |
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