STATESBORO, Ga. - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department recognized 221 scholar-athletes at Thursday'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 2018 semester. Among these student-athletes are 80 Dean's List recipients, as well as 42 scholar-athletes who earned a perfect term GPA of 4.0 and were named to the President's List. 

Due to competition, the football, women's soccer and men's soccer scholar-athletes were not on the field.

Leading these students across the field and congratulating the student-athletes for academic achievement were Interim University President Shelley C. Nickel, Provost Dr. Carl Reiber, 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 -  Director of First Year Experience, Dr. Chris Caplinger 

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

College of Business – Dean Allen Amason

College of Education – Dean Thomas Koballa

The Waters College of Health Profession—Dean Barry Joyner

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

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences – Interim Dean John Kraft

The College of Arts and Humanities –Dean Curtis Ricker

The College of Science and Mathematics – Dean Delana Gajdosik-Nivens