Pitt Honors 283 Scholar-Athletes

Pitt’s scholar-athletes with perfect 4.0 grade point averages (GPAs) gathered during the University’s March 4 Scholar-Athlete Awards Breakfast in Alumni Hall. The two women kneeling in front are Lauren Zammerilla (left) and Chrissy Colalillo. Second row, beginning from left with student in blue shirt, Zachary Mueller, Sarah Looney, Erin Meehan, Jonathan Buchanan, Philip Konieczny, Victoria Toso, and Justin Boehm. Back row, beginning with Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor James V. Maher on far left, Aaron Hassett, Meagan Dooley, Lauren Hartman, William (B.J.) Conklyn, Scott McKillop, Mycaiah Clemons, Healther Lezanic, Andrew Kalas, Pitt Athletic Director Steve Pederson, and Pitt Alumni Association President-elect Jack Smith.

25 Panthers earned Perfect 4.0 GPA Awards

The Pitt Alumni Association honored 283 student-athletes who earned grade-point averages (GPAs) of 3.0 or higher during the Spring 2008 and Fall 2009 semesters. The athletes were recognized at the Alumni Association’s annual University of Pittsburgh Scholar-Athlete Awards Breakfast on March 4 in Alumni Hall.

The women’s volleyball team received the Top Women’s Team Award and the Overall Top GPA Award for the third consecutive year. Four team members—Meagan Dooley, Lauren Hartman, Jessica Moses, and Stephanie Ross—were among the 25 scholar-athletes honored during the breakfast for perfect 4.0 GPAs. An additional eight team members received Gold Awards for GPAs ranging from 3.5 to 3.9.

The men’s swimming and diving team was honored as the Top Men’s Team. Two team members, Jon Buchanan and William Conklyn, earned perfect 4.0 GPAs and an additional five team members earned Gold Awards.

The men’s basketball team was named the Most Improved GPA Team.
A list of the award winners follows.

PERFECT 4.0 GPA AWARDS
Men’s Soccer
Justin Boehm and Andrew Kalas

Women’s Track and Field
Rachel Botham, Alexandra Briggs, Mycaiah Clemons, Kari Hedderick, Heather Lezanic, Victoria Toso, and Anna Yoney

Football
Lucas Briggs, Aaron Hassett, and Scott McKillop

Men’s Swimming and Diving
Jonathan Buchanan and William Conklyn

Cheer and Dance
Chrissy Colalillo and Lauren Zammerilla

Volleyball
Meagan Dooley, Lauren Hartman, Jessica Moses, and Stephanie Ross

Baseball
Philip Konieczny

Women’s Swimming and Diving
Sarah Looney and Erin Meehan

Men’s Track and Field
Zachary Mueller

Softball
Kayla Zinger

GOLD AWARDS (3.5-3.99 GPA)
Baseball
Raymond Black, Brian Chrisman, Sean Conley, Christopher Harner, David Kaye, Philip Konieczny, and Nicholas Mullins

Men’s Basketball
Ryan Tiesi

Women’s Basketball
Kate Popovec and Sylvie Tafen

Cheer and Dance Team
Beth Abbott, Megan Barna, Christie Blondek, Christie Bonk, Tracy Clinton, Chrissy Colalillo, Casey Crudden, Sara Fabanich, Cathryn Hoel, Lauren Hunt, Brittany Jackson, Katelynn Jackson, Nicole Jackson, Gina Klemz, Kyle Loftus, Lauren McCormick, Aimee Moore, Erica Nickels, Nick Passe, Maddie Rendulich, Kelly Scanlon, Samantha Schenk, Brooke Slemons, Kristen Weir, Kayla Younge, and Lauren Zammerilla

Football
Lucas Briggs, Myles Caragein, Patrick Costello, Mark Estermyer, Adam Gunn, Aaron Hassett, Andrew Janocko, Scott McKillop, John Pelusi, Scott Shrake, Kevan Smith, Tyler Tkach, Dustin Walters, and Caleb Wilson

Gymnastics
Anya Chayka, Alix Croop, Samantha DeBone, Andrea Konesky, Nicole Kujawski, Jennifer Liberato, Shannon McConnell, Krista Rubini, and Lisa Taylor

Men’s Soccer
Justin Boehm, Morgan Faust Jr., Andrew Kalas, Patrick Kerr, Zachary Mathews, and Marshall Stula

Women’s Soccer
A’idah Clinton, Shannon Cody, Ashley Habbel, Morie Kephart, Brittany Pfaff, and Kylie Veverka

Softball
Alicia Broudy, Valerie Mihalik, Rebecca Stottlemyer, and Kayla Zinger

Men’s Swimming and Diving
Jonathan Buchanan, William Conklyn, Charles Hauser, Stephen Jackson, Patrick Mansfield, Jared Martin, and Geoffrey Morgan

Women’s Swimming and Diving
Hanna Bratton, Allison Horvath, Tamara Lelli, Sarah Looney, Erin Meehan, Cookie McIntyre, Kristen McMullan, Beth Newell, Kelly O’Hara, Erika Rodriguez, Megan Sculley, Megan Sisko, and Sara Sullivan

Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country
Anthony Casciano, Johnny Dogun, William Grinstead, Curtis Larimer, Zachary Mueller, Matthew Raquet, and Samson Weiser

Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country
Janelle Adams, Patricia Anyanwu, Monica Bhattacharjee, Nicole Bielick, Rachel Botham, Alexandra Briggs, Elizabeth Calabrese, Mycaiah Clemons, Caitlin Cocilova, Kaitlyn Flynn, Prachi Gupta, Kari Hedderick, Kristin Johnson, Lindsay Kramer, Heather Lezanic, Alicia Lichvar, Carrie Mavrikis, Aurielle McCauley, Virginia Thistle, Victoria Toso, Leah Ulizio, and Alexis Wilder

Women’s Tennis
Adela Aprodu, Kristy Borz, Anna Broverman, Marie Eanes-Fennelly, Minh Evans, Fran Liebenguth, and Sabrina Visram

Volleyball
Kelly Campbell, Meagan Dooley, Melissa Ferguson, Lauren Hartman, Allyson Hodnik, Rachel Kalberer, Monica Macellari, Jessica Moses, TaraRohall, Stephanie Ross, Nicole Taurence, and Amy Town

Wrestling
Joseph Ciampoli, Matthew Darnell, Christian Fagan, Mark Generalovich, Ethan Headlee, David Kapetanovich Jr., Nicholas Orio, Jacob Pelletier, Zachary Sheaffer, and Ryan Tomei

BLUE AWARDS (3.0-3.49 GPA) Baseball
Ricky Breymier, Zachary Duggan, Ryan Fairbrother, Hugh Henry, Joseph Leonard, Matthew Litzinger, Daniel Pfister, Nathan Reed, John Schultz, Joshua Smith, Brian Trymbiski, and Michael Wood

Men’s Basketball
Gilbert Brown Jr., Ashton Gibbs, and Bradley Wanamaker

Women’s Basketball
Chelsea Cole., Karlyle Lim, Selena Nwude, Sarah Ogoke, and Shayla Scott

Cheer and Dance Team
Joe Bickel, Megan Cunningham, Michael Degenhart, Amanda Eggert, Tiffany Golonka, Thomas Gresko, Caylen Harris, Erin Kenny, Erin Lageman, Alyssa Miller, Kayla Missigman, Michael Nuzzo, Teresa Pipak, Ashley Rader, Caitlin Timoney, Amanda Tomich, and Megan Worbs

Football
John Bachman, Patrick Bostick, Christopher Bova, Steven Dell, Justin Hargrove, Kevin Harper, Shariff Harris, Robert Houser, Henry Hynoski Jr., Brian Kaiser, Frank Kochin, Zachary Latimore, Conor Lee, LeSean McCoy, Marco Pecora, Austin Ransom, Cody Sawhill, Justin Virbitsky, and Spencer Whipple

Gymnastics
Mallory Brewer, Danielle Bryan, Jessica Catalano, Kaitlin Harrison, Victoria McGuigan-Carl, Molly Moyer, Alicia Talucci, Sarah Thompson, and Shannon Vafiadou

Men’s Soccer
Samuli Ahola, Wils Alpern, Matthew Baker, Eric Barnes, Orane Gordon, Matthew Langton, Connor Malone, Jordan Marks, Erin McCormick, Adam Monteverde, Joseph Prince-Wright, and Christopher Wilcox

Women’s Soccer
Laura Berbert, Elizabeth Carroll, Kathleen Caslin, Maura Caslin, Alison Finch, Janean Gardner, Molly Griganavicius, Molly McGeehin, Kaitlyn Kacsuta, Christina Nicassio, Renee Pilch, Samantha Regney, Katelyn Ruhe, Rachel Vecchio, and Katherine Weiler

Softball
Ashley Amistade, Cory Berliner, Nicole Cognigni, Ciera Damon, Mollie Illenberger, Kelly Murphy, Alyssa O’Connell, and Kaitlyn Schuster

Men’s Swimming and Diving
Eric Becker, Christoph Berger, Andrzej Dubiel, Jason Erdeljac, Collin Forner, Rousseau Kluever, George Krakowski, Andrew Kyrejko, Zane McLain, David McLaren, Jeremy Stultz, Aleksandr Volovetski, and Charles Zettel

Women’s Swimming and Diving
Sophie Cross, Caitlyn Harrington, Sabrina Jennings, Ryann Kishbaugh, Agnes Mago, Tiffany Malatesta, Danielle Scott, Ruth Seiffert, Elena Spak, Morgan Speece, and Brittany Stevens

Women’s Tennis
Elizabeth Adams, Shannon Benic, Leah Friedman, Stephanie Scheinoff, and Carlie Smith

Volleyball
Melissa Stadelman

Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country
Samuel Bair III, Joshua Christopher, Antony Hobwana, Kelvin IsomIan Johnson, Eric Jones, Kyle Kaminski, Garrett Larkin, Jermaine Lowery, Nicholas Malenka, Edward Miller, and John Morrow

Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country
Melissa Alauzen, Kathryn Bannantine, Alycia Brown, Brianna Broyles, Shanea Calhoun, Heather Calisto-Marsden, Omowunmi Fapohunda, June Farley, Martina Hallman, Rachel Hess, Jazmin Hunt, Anita James, Miya Johnson, Da’Lynn Mills, Janessa Murphy, Selena Sappleton, Stephanie Stambaugh, Melissa Vignetti, Kelsey Voltz, and Kari Wimerskirch

Wrestling
Ryan Bosso,  Adam Counterman, Joseph Ecklof, Brad Gentzle, Alan Hunte, Victor Konno, Daniel Mahoney, Brock Mantella, Mark Powell, and Sean Richmond