Nov. 26, 2007
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The University of Memphis Athletic Academic Services department will honor Memphis student-athletes at halftime of the Austin Peay game at FedExForum Tuesday night. The 2006-07 Conference USA Academic Medalists, students with a GPA of 3.75 or higher, and will also recognize All-District and All-American academic honorees. The complete list of honorees is below:
Conference USA Academic Medalists (3.75 cumulative GPA or higher)
Women's Basketball - Jessica Hall
Women's Cross Country - Mary Claire Dake, Emily Malinowski
Women's Soccer - Lia Fannin, Laura Laufenberg, Kate Murphy, Halley Sullivan, Eliza Welford
Softball - Linday Kelso, Heather Mott
Women's Tennis - Dara Toulch
Women's Track - Sivan Aballi, Whitney Bolton, Chen Edri
Women's Volleyball - Christine Bach, Sarah Chambers, Lauren Thompson, Emily Underwood
Baseball - Zach Clark, Mark Jobe, Neil Schenk
Football - Paul Edwards, John Hill, John McArthur
Men's Golf - Brad Benjamin
Men's Soccer - Jared Britcher, Robert Sausaman
Men's Tennis - Benedikt Fischer, Spencer Heflin, Amrit Narasimhan
Rifle - Andrew Hahn
Perfect 4.0 GPAs for all of 2006-07
Kate Murphy, Women's Soccer
Sarah Chambers, Volleyball
Gresh Gorman, Volleyball
Adam Montgomery, Men's Soccer
Benedikt Fischer, Men's Tennis
Co-SIDA Award Winners
Kylie Hayes - Third Team Academic All-District in women's soccer
Kate Murphy - First Team Academic All-American in women's soccer (first female in school history to win first team Academic All-American honors).
Jared Britcher - Third Team Academic All-District for a second season in men's soccer
Robert Sausaman - First Team Academic All-District for men's soccer
Jake Kasser and Brandon Patterson - First Team Academic All-District in football
Brandon Pearce - Second Team Academic All-District in football
Ashley Liford - Third Team Academic All-District in volleyball
The 2006-07 volleyball team will also be honored with the C-USA Sport Academic Award for the top cumulative GPA in their sport during the 2006-07 season. They also achieved the highest semester GPA in school history during the spring 2007 semester.
