Pitt Honors 305 Scholar-Athletes

22 Panthers earned a 4.0 GPA during past two semesters

The Pitt Alumni Association honored 305 student-athletes who earned grade-point averages (GPAs) of 3.0 or higher over the past two semesters. The athletes were recognized at the Alumni Association’s annual University of Pittsburgh Scholar-Athlete Awards Breakfast on Feb. 18 in Alumni Hall.

The program’s special guests were Lee Patouillet, associate vice chancellor for alumni relations and executive director of the Pitt Alumni Association; WPXI Channel 11 sports anchor Rich Walsh, a former Pitt scholar-athlete; and Pitt Athletic Director Steve Pederson.

The Pitt men’s baseball team was named the Most Improved Team, earning a collective 2.81 GPA during the spring and fall 2007 semesters. Players Kyle Landis, a graduate, and senior Nick Mullins were among the 22 student-athletes honored during the breakfast for a perfect 4.0.

The men’s swimming and diving team earned the Top Men’s Team GPA Award. Seven members of the team were Gold Awardees with GPAs ranging from 3.5 to 3.9. Graduate Andrew Sheaff and junior Jonathan Buchanan were honored for their 4.0 GPAs.

The women’s volleyball team won the Top Women’s Team Award and the Overall Top GPA Award for the second consecutive year. Junior Monica Macellari and sophomore Meagan Dooley led the team with 4.0 GPAs, but all 11 members of the squad were honored with Gold Awards.

Following are the award winners.

Perfect 4.0 GPA Awards

Baseball

Kyle Landis and Nicholas Mullins

Cheer and Dance Team

Aimee Moore

Gymnastics

Robyn Marszalek

Men’s Soccer

Andrew Kalas

Women’s Soccer

Corina Sebesta

Softball

Valerie Mihalik

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Jonathan Buchanan and Andrew Sheaff

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Sarah Looney

Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Steve Gonzalez and Tim Konoval

Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Janelle Adams, Nicole Bielick, Suzy Bossart, Elizabeth Calabrese, and Mycaiah Clemons

Volleyball

Azadeh Boroumand, Meagan Dooley, and Monica Macellari

Wrestling

Joe Ciampoli and Matt Darnell

Gold Awards
(3.5-3.99 GPA)

Baseball

James Bassage, Miles Gallagher, Christopher Harner, Jordan Herr, Morgan Kielty, Philip Konieczny, and Matthew Litzinger

Men’s Basketball

Keith Benjamin and Levon Kendall

Women’s Basketball

Karlyle Lim, Sylvie Tafen, and Mallorie Winn

Cheer and Dance Team

Beth Abbott, Megan Barna, Christie Bonk, Christina Colalillo, Sara Fabanich, Lauren Hunt, Brittany Jackson, Nicole Jackson, Erin Lageman, Ashley Liska, Shawn Lucci, Kesa Mayanja, Lauren McCormick, Lauren McPherson, Katie Mulkern, Erica Nickels, Teresa Pipak, Jen Scacco, Amanda Tomich, Chris Watkinson, Megan Worbs, and Kayla Younge

Football

Vernon Botts, Lucas Briggs, Steve Buches, Myles Caragein, Mark Estermyer, Max Gruder, Mike Hull Jr., Conor Lee, Chris McKillop, Kevan Smith, Lucas Stone, Tyler Tkach, and Dustin Walters

Women’s Gymnastics

Samantha Debone, Nicole Drane, Kaitlin Harrison, and Nicole Kujawski

Men’s Soccer

Tyler Bastianelli, Justin Boehm, Matt Detzel, Matt Langton, Zachary Matthews, Marshall Stula, and Adam Walkowiak

Women’s Soccer

Laura Berbert, Carli Brill, Jenna Greenfield, Ashley Habbel, Morie Kephart, Renee Pilch, Katie Surma, and Kylie Veverka

Softball

Laura Belardinelli, Cory Berliner, Alicia Broudy, Samantha Card, Morgan Howard, Kimberly Stiles, and Kayla Zinger

Men’s Swimming and Diving

B.J. Conklyn, Patrick Mansfield, Jared Martin, Jeremy Stultz, and Charles Zettel

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Hanna Bratton, Kristin Brown, Caitlyn Harrington, Amy He, Agnes Mago, Kristen McMullan, Erin Meehan, Beth Newell, Kelly O’Hara, Erika Rodriguez, Megan Sculley, Kathy Siuda, and Sara Sullivan

Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Eric Burnett, David Donahoe, Kevin Gilpatrick, Adam Kielinski, Jeff Kiss, Mike Long, Matt Raquet, and Ranjodh Singh

Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Nicola Angstadt, Monica Bhattacharjee, Rachel Botham, Ali Briggs, Aly Brown, Bailey Flask, Kari Hedderick, Kristin Johnson, Heather Lezanic, Aurielle McCauley, Shannon Moore, Julianna Reed, Kimberly Rorabaugh, Jenna Rozansky, Jennifer Seitz, Victoria Toso, Leah Ulizio, and Anna Yoney

Women’s Tennis

Elizabeth Adams, Kristy Borza, Anna Broverman, Anne Davies, Frances Liebenguth, and Stephanie Scheinoff

Women’s Volleyball

Kelly Campbell, Melissa Ferguson, Rachel Kalberer, Jessica Moses, Stephanie Ross, Melissa Stadelman, Nicole Taurence, and Amy Town

Wrestling

Tim Allen, Christian Fagan, Mark Generalovich, Drew Headlee, Ethan Headlee, Dave Kapetanovich, Nick Orio, and Jacob Pelletier

Blue Awards
(3.0-3.49 GPA)

Baseball

Rob Brant, Sean Conley, Kevin Dooley, Zachary Duggan, Ryan Dunford, David Kaye, Ben Knuth, Robert Lawler, Paul Nardozzi, John Schultz, Matthew Tokarczyk, Brian Trymbiski, and Christopher Warner

Men’s Basketball

Mike Cooke, Tim Frye, Maurice Polen, and Sam Young

Women’s Basketball

Ashley Henderson, Selena Nwude, and Shavonte Zellous

Cheer and Dance Team

Christie Blondek, Tracy Clinton, Amanda Eggert, Tiffany Golonka, Caylen Harris, Katelynn Jackson, Erin Kenny, Rachel King, Gina Klemz, Kyle Loftus, Melanie Miller, Kayla Missigman, Nick Passe, Ashley Rader, Madalyn Rendulich, Iovanna Ritter, Kelly Scanlon, Samantha Schenk, Emily Spade, Melanie Spain, and Lori Steranchak

Football

Peter Alecxih, John Bachman, Shawn Besong, Jemeel Brady, John Brown, Dave Brytus, Kelvin Chandler, Greg Gaskins, Adam Gunn, Kashif Henderson, Henry Hynoski Jr., Andrew Janocko, Francis Johns, Alexander Karabin, Derek Kinder, Frank Kochin, David Kries, Gus Mustakas, John Pelusi, John Pettiford, Mike Phillips, Austin Ransom, Chris Vangas, and Dave Weber

Gymnastics

Andrea Arlotta, Danielle Bryan, Jessica Byich, Anya Chayka, Jessica Garber, Jennifer Jones, Andrea Konesky, Shannon McConnell, Victoria McGuigan-Carl, Krista Rubini, and Sarah Thompson

Men’s Soccer

Matt Baker, Chris Bastidas, Morgan Faust Jr., Matt Firster, Chris Franczkowski, Orane Gordon, Pat Kerr, and Brendon Smith

Women’s Soccer

Dee Abasute, Iris Bolvin, Liz Carroll, Stephanie Davis, Alison Finch, Kristina Francois, Kaitlyn Kacsuta, Megan Watson, and Erica Wright

Softball

Meghan Bostick, Jessica Dignon, April Ghiroli, Sheena Hellon, Mollie Illenberger, Kelly Murphy, Alyssa O’Connell, Rebecca Stottlemyer, and Reba Tutt

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Warren Barnes, Eric Becker, Daniel Connealy, Jason Erdeljac, Collin Forner, Chris George, Charles Hauser, Rene Hjorth, Steve Jackson, Andrew Kyrejko, Jared Martin, Zane McLain, Alex McLaren, David Montgomery, Geoffrey Morgan, Andrew Natali, and Scott Shearer

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Melissa Brosius, Sophie Cross, Kendra Decelle, Emily DeStefano, Margo Ekstrom, Allison Horvath, Sabrina Jennings, Ryann Kishbaugh, Tiffany Malatesta, Lauren Myrick, Ruth Seiffert, Andrea Shoust, and Katherine Templeton

Women’s Tennis

Shannon Benic, Leah Friedman, Sarah Macausland, Audra Praskwiecz, Carlie Smith, and Sabrina Visram

Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Joshua Christopher, Kareem Cousar, Matt Daniele, Eric Fleming, William Grinstead, Eric Jones, Curtis Larimer, Stephen Reed, Christian Schmidt, Jeffrey Stortz, Matthew Timko, Andrew Tomaswick, Brandon Turner, Samson Weiser, Brian Woods, and Joshua Zueger

Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country

Raquel Bender, Stacey Bilan, Leah Coveleski, Omowunmi Fapohunda, June Farley, Katelyn Fleishman, Akiesha Gilcrist, Prachi Gupta, Alicia Lichvar, Carron Mitchell, Janessa Murphy, Nicole Pitchford, Stephanie Stambaugh, Melissa Vignetti, Kelsey Voltz, and Kari Weimerskirch

Wrestling

Andrew Brentzel, Eric Cassidy, Adam Counterman, Kyle Deliere, Joey Ecklof, Brad Gentzle, Mike Heist, Brock Mantella, Kyle Patton, Sean Richmond, Zach Sheaffer, Philip Sorrentino, Ryan Tomei, and Jeff Warusz