Football | 10/28/2016 9:51:00 AM

STATESBORO, Ga. - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department recognized 232 scholar-athletes at Thursday night's football game against Appalachian State. These student-athletes have found a way to balance playbooks and text books, all earning a term grade point average of a 3.0 or higher in the Spring 2016 semester. Among these student-athletes are 86 Dean's List recipients, as well as 40 scholar-athletes who earned a perfect term GPA of 4.0 and were named to the President's List. 

Due to competition, the football scholar-athletes from the sports of football were not on the field.

Leading these students across the field and congratulating the student-athletes for academic achievement were University President Dr. Jaimie Hebert, Provost Dr. Jean Bartels, Associate Provost Dr. Diana Cone, Faculty Athletics Representative Dr. Chris Geyerman, and Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein.

These student-athletes represented their colleges and were escorted by their College Dean or Director:

Programs under the Vice President for Academic Affairs -  Interim President, Dr. Jean Bartels and Director of First Year Experience, Dr. Chris Caplinger 

Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Information Technology – Founding Dean, Dr. Mohammad Davoud

College of Business Administration –Dean Allen Amason

College of Education – Dean Thomas Koballa

College of Health and Human Sciences – Dean Barry Joyner

College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences – Dean Curtis Ricker 

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health – Dean Greg Evans

College of Science and Mathematics – Dean Martha Abell