April 13, 2011

GREENVILLE, N.C. - A total of 47 East Carolina student-athletes have earned the Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal during the 2010-11 academic year, league officials announced today. The medals are given to those C-USA student-athletes who have achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or better.

The women's soccer and volleyball team each had six student-athletes earn a medal, while the baseball and football team each had five medal recipients.

A total of 487 student-athletes who compete in Conference USA were medal recipients. Tulsa had the most academic medal winners with 57, followed closely by Memphis with 56 and East Carolina with. The number of medalists honored increased by more than seven percent from a year ago. the following is a complete list of the Pirates' medal winners:

BASEBALL (5)
Jacob Davis
Austin Homan
David Jauss
Joshua Lovick
Drew Reynolds

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL (1)
Ariana Jackson

WOMEN's CROSS COUNTRY(4)
Janet Bailey
Nicole Briggs
Kelley Miko
Bjork Olsen

FOOTBALL (5)
Charlie Coggins
Ryan Mahoney
Phillip McNaughton
Matthew Milner
Trent Tignor

MEN'S GOLF (1)
Jackson Stuckey

WOMEN'S GOLF (3)
Andrea Estes
Colleen Estes
Fanny Wolte

WOMEN'S SOCCER (6)
Brittany Batts
Catherine Butler
Kimberly Cummings
Amanda Reynolds
Danielle Romano
Jessica Woodward

SOFTBALL (1)
Jill Jelnick

MEN'S SWIMMING (3)
Turner Haigwood
Michael Hughes
Andrew Stoker

WOMEN'S SWIMMING (4)
Taylor Edwards
Kylie Francis
Hannah Lee
Meaghan Rauscher

MEN'S TENNIS (3)
Jaroslav Horvath
Antoine Khoury
Massimo Mannino

WOMEN'S TENNIS (2)
Manon Bissat
Petra Vogel

MEN'S TRACK & FIELD (1)
Ben McKinzie

WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD (2)
Erica Bell
Abbey Way

VOLLEYBALL (6)
Hannah Allgood
Shelby Beasley
Kasey Kavanaugh
Andrea Queck
Amy Shelton
Jacqueline Varnum