ACC announces Honor Roll for 2015-16 academic year

July 7, 2016

In all, 263 Virginia Tech student-athletes make the list

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Atlantic Coast Conference and league commissioner John Swofford announced the league’s 60th Honor Roll, which recognizes academic excellence by student-athletes during the 2014-15 academic year.

Exactly 263 student-athletes at Virginia Tech made the Honor Roll, which is comprised of student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade-point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year. The conference recognized a record 4,378 student-athletes for their hard work in the classroom during the 2015-16 academic year.

Duke led all schools with 480 student-athletes recognized, and Notre Dame followed with 414. Boston College saw 390 student-athletes achieve Honor Roll acclaim.

The 2015-16 ACC Honor Roll includes one student-athlete – Duke’s Kelby Brown – who earned recognition for the sixth time.

Thirty-five student-athletes earned ACC Honor Roll status for the fifth time: Boston College’s Liv Westphal (track and field); Clemson’s Stephen Behr (golf); Duke’s Abby Beltrani (lacrosse), Laura Blazing (field hockey), Braxton Deaver (football), Maggie Deichmeister (volleyball), Wilson Fisher (soccer), Karli Johonnot (track and field), Kyle Moran (track and field), D.J. Reeves (football), Cody Robinson (football), Colleen Schmidt (cross country/track and field), Shaun Thompson (cross country/track and field, and Brendan Walsh (wrestling); Florida State’s Daneika Borthwick (tennis) and Michael Compton (baseball); Georgia Tech’s Samantha Becker (track and field); Miami’s Carina Cuculiza (golf), Luke Dubliler (track and field), Kara McComack (swimming and diving) and Erin McGovern (soccer); North Carolina’s Karley Rempel (cross country), Danielle Siverling (swimming and diving), Alex Utley (wrestling) and Lizzy Whelan (cross country); NC State’s Philip Carmon (soccer), Olivia Enright (cross country), Joanna Thompson (cross country) and Joe Thuney (football); Virginia’s Christian Lavorgna (track and field), John Pond (football) and Julia Sroba (soccer), and Wake Forest’s Kaitlyn Oliver (track and field), Aubrey Waggoner (track and field) and Hunter Williams (football).

The Honor Roll features 14 ACC Men’s 2015-16 Performers of the Year, including Clemson’s Seth Beer (baseball), Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon (basketball), Notre Dame’s Axel Kiefer (fencing), Notre Dame’s Jonah Shainberg (fencing), Duke’s Pascual Di Tella (fencing), Clemson’s Deshaun Watson (football), Duke’s Jeremy Cash (football), Florida State’s Hank Leiboda (golf), Notre Dame’s Matt Landis (lacrosse), Clemson’s Paul Clowes (soccer), Pitt’s Dominic Giordano (diving), Virginia’s Henry Wynne (indoor/outdoor track and field), NC State’s Jonathan Addison (indoor track and field), and Virginia’s Filip Mihaljevic (outdoor track and field).

A total of 22 ACC Women’s 2015-16 Performers of the Year were honored in Notre Dame’s Molly Seidel (cross country/indoor track and field), Boston College’s Olivia Adragna (fencing), Duke’s Jennifer Ling (fencing), Syracuse’s Alma Fenne (field hockey), Virginia’s Lauren Coughlin (golf), Syracuse’s Kayla Treanor (lacrosse), Notre Dame’s Barbara Sullivan (lacrosse), Virginia’s Makenzy Doniak (soccer), Florida State’s Alex Powers (softball), Virginia’s Colette Lucas-Conwell, Tessa Dikkers, Georgia Ratcliff, Heidi Long, Jennifer Reid, Alice Darry and Sam Casto (rowing), Louisville’s Kelsi Worrell (swimming), North Carolina’s Hayley Carter (tennis), Duke’s Megan Clark (indoor track and field), Florida State’s Kellion Knibb (outdoor track and field), and Louisville’s Katie George (volleyball) and Molly Sauer (volleyball).

The league saw 12 ACC Freshmen of the Year named to the honor roll, including the Hokies’ David McFadden. Other honorees included Clemson’s Seth Beer (baseball), Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer (women’s cross country), Clemson’s Bryson Nimmer (men’s golf) and Alice Hewson (women’s golf), Virginia Tech’s Lauren Duff (softball), Virginia’s Heidi Long (rowing), NC State’s Justin Ress (men’s swimming and diving), Louisville’s Mallory Comerford (women’s swimming and diving), Georgia Tech’s Bria Matthews (women’s indoor track and field), Florida State’s Shauna Helps (women’s outdoor track and field), and Louisville’s Molly Sauer (volleyball).

The ACC recognized Scholar Athletes of the Year in each of its 27 sports earlier in the 2015-16 academic year – a group that included Virginia Tech’s Brandon Fiala.

Here is a complete listing of the Virginia Tech student-athletes who made the Honor Roll (the number beside the student-athlete’s name is the number of times the student-athlete made the Honor Roll in his her career):

BASEBALL (17)

Nick Anderson 1 – Baseball

Mac Caples 2 – Baseball

Connor Coward 2 – Baseball

Sam Fragale 3 – Baseball

Paul Hall, Jr. 1 – Baseball

Payton Holdsworth 1 - Baseball

Garrett Hudson 3 – Baseball

Cole Kragel 1 – Baseball

Ryan Lauria 1 – Baseball

Grant Maiorana 1 - Baseball

Andrew Mogg 3 – Baseball