Gators Place 64 on SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida placed 64 student-athletes on the 2024 Southeastern Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll, announced Thursday by league commissioner Greg Sankey.

The 2024 SEC Winter Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2023 Spring, Summer and Fall terms.

Florida’s SEC champion men’s and women’s swimming & diving programs placed 24 and 19, respectively on the list.

For the fourth time in the last five seasons, the SEC champion Gators saw all gymnasts eligible (11) earn a spot on the 2024 SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Six from women’s basketball and four from the men’s team earned spots on the Academic Honor Roll. The women’s basketball total is one away from the program record reached for the fourth time last season.

More Gators Academic Honor Roll notes:

  *   Three turned in 4.0 grade point averages – gymnast Victoria Nguyen and swimmers Ekaterina Nikonova and Aris Runnels
  *   Josh Liendo is one of six in NCAA Men’s Swimming Championships history – and first since 1996 – to win three individual titles and swim on at least two championship relays teams. He is the first to sweep the NCAA 50 and 100 free and 100 butterfly since Florida’s Caleb Dressel in 2017 and 2018. He is the SEC Swimmer of the Year.
  *   Four other swimmers who were part of NCAA champion relays – Micayla Cronk, Julian Smith, Macguire McDuff and Emma Weyant – appear on the Winter Academic Honor Roll.
  *   Earlier this week, Weyant<https://floridagators.com/news/2024/4/23/emma-weyant-named-to-2023-24-academic-all-america-womens-swimming-diving-team.aspx> and Jake Mitchell<https://floridagators.com/news/2024/4/24/jake-mitchell-earns-first-team-academic-all-american-honors.aspx> were named College Sports Communicators Academic All-Americans
  *   Junior Leanne Wong shared the NCAA uneven bars title and is a finalist for the Honda Award<https://floridagators.com/news/2024/4/23/gymnastics-leanne-wong-is-2024-honda-award-nominee.aspx>.
  *   Leilani Correa was named the SEC basketball Sixth Woman of the Year

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

Alex Klatsky

Men’s Basketball

SR

Undergraduate Certificate in AI Fundamentals and Applications

Jack May

Men’s Basketball

SR

Management

Will Richard

Men’s Basketball

JR

Sport Management

Aleks Szymczyk

Men’s Basketball

SO

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Zippy Broughton

Women’s Basketball

GR

Food and Resource Economics

Paige Clausen

Women’s Basketball

JR

Finance

Leilani Correa

Women’s Basketball

SR

Education Sciences

Aliyah Matharu

Women’s Basketball

SR

Education Sciences

Alberte Rimdal

Women’s Basketball

JR

Health Education and Behavior

Jeriah Warren

Women’s Basketball

JR

Criminology

Sloane Blakely

Gymnastics

JR

Health Education and Behavior

Lori Brubach

Gymnastics

SO

Sport Management

Chloi Clark

Gymnastics

SR

Sport Management

Brianna Edwards

Gymnastics

JR

Psychology

Morgan Hurd

Gymnastics

JR

English

Ellie Lazzari

Gymnastics

SR

Psychology

Michala Magee

Gymnastics

SR

Journalism

Riley McCusker

Gymnastics

JR

Applied Physiology & Kinesiology

Victoria Nguyen

Gymnastics

SR

Education Sciences

Payton Richards

Gymnastics

GR

Entrepreneurship

Leanne Wong

Gymnastics

JR

Health Education and Behavior

Amro Al-Wir

Men’s Swimming

SR

Astrophysics

Peter Bretzmann

Men’s Swimming

JR

Geology

Eric Brown

Men’s Swimming

SO

Computer Science

Benjamin Cote

Men’s Swimming

JR

Health Education and Behavior

Jace Crawford

Men’s Swimming

SR

Construction Management

Elisha Dees

Men’s Diving

SO

Psychology

Skip Donald

Men’s Diving

SR

Education Sciences

Mateusz Dubas

Men’s Swimming

SR

Architecture

Ed Fullum-Huot

Men’s Swimming

SO

Geology

Joaquin Gonzalez Pinero

Men’s Swimming

JR

Food and Resource Economics

Daniel Gordon

Men’s Swimming

SO

Mechanical Engineering

Billy Jones

Men’s Swimming

SR

Electrical Engineering

Mason Laur

Men’s Swimming

JR

Sport Management

Josh Liendo

Men’s Swimming

SO

Education Sciences

Oskar Lindholm

Men’s Swimming

JR

Applied Physiology & Kinesiology

Gio Linscheer

Men’s Swimming

SO

Management

Macguire McDuff

Men’s Swimming

JR

Computer Science

Jake Mitchell

Men’s Swimming

SR

Health Education and Behavior

Aryan Nehra

Men’s Swimming

JR

Economics

Brendan Peacock

Men’s Swimming

SR

Criminology

Aleksas Savickas

Men’s Swimming

SO

Psychology

Julian Smith

Men’s Swimming

JR

Biology

Anton Svirskyi

Men’s Diving

SR

Biomedical Engineering

Jack VanDeusen

Men’s Swimming

SR

Natural Resource Conservation

Anna Auld

Women’s Swimming

JR

Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management

Elise Bauer

Women’s Swimming

SR

Health Education and Behavior

Micayla Cronk

Women’s Swimming

JR

Health Education and Behavior

Camille DeBoer

Women’s Swimming

SO

Education Sciences

Leah DeGeorge

Women’s Swimming

SR

Biology

Zoe Dixon

Women’s Swimming

SO

Health Education and Behavior

Molly Golding

Women’s Swimming

JR

Environmental Engineering Sciences

Casey Greenberg

Women’s Diving

SO

Health Education and Behavior

Madison Kolessar

Women’s Swimming

SR

Natural Resource Conservation

Carina Lumia

Women’s Diving

JR

Health Science

Anna Moore

Women’s Swimming

SO

Political Science

Ekaterina Nikonova

Women’s Swimming

JR

Business Administration

Caroline Pagac

Women’s Diving

SR

Psychology

Caroline Pennington

Women’s Swimming

JR

Finance

Olivia Peoples

Women’s Swimming

JR

Biology

Amanda Ray

Women’s Swimming

SR

Biology

Aris Runnels

Women’s Swimming

JR

Criminology

Emma Weyant

Women’s Swimming

SO

Political Science

Mabel Zavaros

Women’s Swimming

JR

Psychology