Nicholls student athletes making the grade

The Southland Conference announced today that 686 student-athletes, including 36 from Nicholls State University, have been named to the CapitalOne Bank / SLC Commissioner’s 2007 Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Presented by CaptialOne Bank, the honor roll recognizes student-athletes who competed in league championship sports during the spring semester and maintained a 3.0 semester grade point average while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours. Each Southland institution is responsible in selecting the student-athletes for the spring roll. Student-athletes in sports played during the fall semester have the opportunity to be named the Academic Honor Roll following the fall semester.

Of those 36 honorees for the Colonels, baseball placed 14 players on the list, followed by five members of the men’s golf team, as well as women’s track and field team, four softball players and women’s tennis athletes and two representatives from both the women’s golf and men’s tennis teams.

The honorees were:

Baseball – Ryan Bledsoe (Jr. marketing); Thomas Bourne (Sr.,Health & PE Education); Justin Breaux (Jr., Bio./Pre-Physical Therapy); Brett Cook (Jr., General Studies); Ryan Harding (Jr., General Studies); Walter Jones (Jr., General Studies);

Anthony Marino (Jr.,Bio./Pre-Physical Therapy); Thomas Menerey (Jr., Accounting); Justin Owens (Fresh., Manufac. Eng. Tech.); Nathan Quebedeaux(Jr. General Studies); Jacob Sullivan (Jr., Marketing Prof. Sales);

Patrick Thompson (Jr., Athletic Training Science); Ricky Waguespack (Soph., Math); Joseph Wray (Jr., General Studies)

Men’s Golf – Nat Bhanthumachinda(Sr., Marketing); Robbie Ocmond (Fresh., Social Studies Education); Charles Reed (Soph., Accounting); Donald Schmitt (Sr., Marketing Prof. Sales);James Terrebonne (Jr., Biology/Pre-Med)

Women’s Golf – Jessica Marquart (Fresh., Accounting);Theunette Van der Walt (Soph., Finance)

Softball- Leah Bland (Fresh. Fin. Service Marketing); Haley Burkett (Soph., Psychology); Leah Peterson (Sr., Health & PE Education); Rachel Pugh (Jr.,Health Care Management)

Men’s Tennis – Maxime Bouhoulle (Fresh., Gen. Bus. Administration); Sami Mouline (Fresh., Gen.Bus. Administration)

Women’s Tennis – Sara Hanesch (Fresh.,General Studies); Nicole September (Fresh.,Bio./Pre-Physical Therapy); Sanja Stanojcic (Fresh.,Accounting); Adeline Vallet (Sr.,Masters of Bus. Admin.)

Track & Field – Rahjanaye Bailey (Fresh., Gov. Criminal Justice); Leslie Bourgeois (Soph., Health & PE Education); Charlotte Everhardt (Soph., Dietetics);

Michaela Guidry (Fresh.,Gen.Bus. Administration); Eunice Jepkogei (Jr.,Nursing)

Photo by DOUG KEESE

• NSU Senior Thomas Bourne was one of 36 Nicholls State University student athletes named to the CapitalOne Bank / SLC Commissioner’s 2007 Spring Academic Honor Roll.

Doug Keese