More than 100 Penn State student-athletes graduated this weekend representing 26 athletic programs across campus.
The 101 graduating student-athletes in the 2015 class is the second-highest total in school history.
One-hundred-and-nine Penn State athletes graduated in May, 2013, five more than last year’s 96 graduates.
The Nittany Lion wrestling team top the list with 11 individuals receiving their diplomas. Also graduating are 21 Penn State student-athletes whose teams have captured NCAA Championships during their careers, including those 11 wrestlers, two women’s volleyball players and eight fencers (four men and four women).
Nearly 20 Penn State student-athletes set to receive their diplomas have earned All-American honors, including Brown, Dylan Alton and Jimmy Lawson (wrestling); Luminet (fencing); Hayes (women’s soccer); Katie Rodden (women’s track); Craig Hernandez, Nestor Rodriguez and Tristan Duverglas (men’s gymnastics); Laura Gebhart and Taylor Herold (field hockey); Caitlyn Karr, Katelyn Miller and Megan Siverling (women’s swimming); and Tatum Coffey, Kelly Lechner and Maggie McCormick (women’s lacrosse).
In addition, Penn State student athletes have accumulated the following marks over some of the most recent semesters.
– Penn State student-athletes broke several school records during the 2014 fall semester, including a record 500 earning a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher. Among the 500 Nittany Lion student-athletes earning at least a 3.0 GPA, a school record 241 earned Dean’s List honors by posting a GPA of 3.50 or higher. The combined average GPA was 3.08 among Penn State’s 31 varsity sports during the fall semester.
– Penn State’s 70 winter Academic All-Big Ten selections brought its 2014-15 total to 142 academic all-conference honorees (from 15 sports). Seventy-two student-athletes earned Fall Academic All-Big Ten honors.
– During the 2013-14 academic year, Penn State had 285 academic all-conference honorees, its second-highest total all-time.
