Student-Athlete Services | 2/7/2017 10:15:00 AM

STATESBORO, Ga. - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department recognized 212 scholar-athletes at last night's men's basketball game against Louisiana. 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 Fall 2016 semester. Among these student-athletes are 77 Dean's List recipients as well as 35 scholar-athletes who earned a perfect term GPA of 4.0 and are named to the President's List.

Due to competition, the scholar-athletes from the men's basketball team were not on the court.

Leading these students across the court and congratulating the student-athletes for academic achievement were University President, Dr. Jaimie Hebert, Dr. Jean Bartels, University Provost, Dr. Diana Cone, University Vice Provost, 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:

From programs under the Vice President for Academic Affairs - Director of First Year Experience, Dr. Chris Caplinger 

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

From the College of Business Administration – Assistant Dean, Ms. Cindy Randall

From the College of Education – Dean Thomas Koballa

From the College of Health and Human Sciences – Dean Barry Joyner

From the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences – Dean Curtis Ricker 

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

And from the College of Science and Mathematics – Dean Martha Abell