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Graduation and Academic Honors for T&F Student-Athletes
May 21, 2004 | Track and Field
NORMAN, Okla. The end of the academic year has brought academic honors and degrees for a number of current and former Sooner track and field/cross country student-athletes.
OU's graduating Class of 2004 included 18 representatives from the men's and women's track and field/cross country teams.
Earning undergraduate degrees as part of the Class of '04 were Renea' Burns, Joe Butler, Philip Cain, Megan Crystal, L'eron George, Trevor Gillum, Edwin Jones, Brandon Kissack, Amanda Luksetich, Aldwyn Sappleton, Lameisa Thomas, Amanda Wedel Bryce, Kristen Whitnack, and Krystle Williams.
Four former Sooners, Andrea DeLozier Larabee, Jimyria Hicks, Jessica Longfors and Cecil Rose, earned master's degrees during commencement ceremonies.
Several athletes from the track and field/cross country programs have received academic honors from various areas of campus in the final weeks of the semester.
Those awards include Sappleton, Athletic Director's Leadership Award; Sara Francis, Jay Myers Award from the OU Athletics Council and the Harriet Harvey Memorial Scholarship from the OU Foundation; Jason Coleman, the Jay Myers Award; Michelle Thomas, the Athletic Council's Achievement Award; Ashely Harris, Emily Leonard, Sappleton, Robert Smith and Terrika Warren, the Athletic Council's Service Award; Jessica Eldridge (November) and DaBryan Blanton (April), Athletic Student Life Student of the Month and Tiffani Johnson, the PACE Award from OU's University College.
The Athletic Director's Leadership Award is given annually to student-athletes who demonstrate extraordinary leadership in representing the University of Oklahoma and his/her team. The Jay Myers Award is given annually to the freshmen student-athletes who best combine excellence in scholarship with potential excellence in his/her chosen field of athletic endeavor. The Athletics Council Service Award honors student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic, and/or emotional odds to achieve academic success while participating in intercollegiate athletics.
The Athletics Council Service Award is given to student-athletes who have made important contributions to the community through their commitment to service.
The Harriet Harvey Memorial Scholarship honors one of the most distinguished persons to hold a professorship at OU. It is given annually and is awarded for demonstrated scholastic ability and the student's exhibited capability of succeeding in his/her chosen field of study. The PACE Award is given by OU's University College to recognize outstanding freshmen students on the Norman campus.
The award is given to the top 1 percent of the current freshman class. It requires a minimum 3.25 grade point average and the award recgonizes Participation, Achievement, Community and Excellence.
The Sooner track and field also was well represented on the Big 12 All-Academic teams with 14 first-team honorees and seven second-team honorees. First-team members consist of those who have maintained a 3.20 or better GPA, while the second team includes those who have a 3.00 to 3.19 average.
To qualify student-athletes must maintain a 3.00 or higher GPA either cumulative or the two previous semesters and must have participated in 60 percent of her/his team's scheduled contests. Freshmen and transfers are not eligible in their first year of academic residence. Senior student-athletes who have participated for a minimum of two years and meet all the criteria except percent of participation are eligible.
OU first-team honorees included Jimmy Buchanan, health and sports science, Toronto, Ontario; Cain, finance/marketing, Bartlesville, Okla.; Kris Glenn, journalism, Healdton, Okla.; Darren Hutchins, math, Choctaw, Okla.; Smith, human relations, Atlanta, Ga.; Sappleton, international business/economics, James Hill, Clarendon, Jamaica; Dan Strong, English, Enid, Okla.; Jackie Dubois, meteorology, Lawrence, Kan.; Leonard, finance, Plano, Texas; Kelsey Moore, health and sports science, Yukon, Okla.; Jennifer Plank, psychology, Bethany, Okla.; Thomas, microbiology, McAlester, Okla.; Bryce, communication, Lexington, Okla.; and Cicely Williams, chemical engineering, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Second-team honors went to Austin Landreth, construction science, Elk City, Okla.; Blake Culp, management, Bartlesville, Okla.; Joe McNair, history, Bartlesville, Okla.; Burns, finance, Ardmore, Okla.; Leslie Dunlap, finance, Choctaw, Okla.; Barbara Phillips, sociology/criminology, Cherokee, Okla.; and Nicola Maye, health and sports science, Summerfield, Clarendon, Jamaica.
This marks the third time to be selected for the track and field all-academic team for Glenn, Hutchins, Dunlap and Thomas. It marks the second selection on the track and field all-academic list for Buchanan, Sappleton, Strong, Dubois, Moore, Williams, Landreth, McNair and Phillips.
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