Tartans Celebrate 73 Graduating Student-Athletes

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University Department of Athletics celebrated the graduation of 73 student-athletes on Sunday, May 15 during the campus-wide ceremony held in Gesling Stadium. In total, more than 5,000 graduates were recognized over the weekend for the University’s 119th commencement.

The 73 student-athletes graduating have a stellar track record of academic success. The combined grade-point average of the student-athlete graduates is 3.523, six were initiated into Phi Beta Kappa and one student-athlete won a Churchill Scholarship.

Of the group, 28 will graduate with degrees from the College of Engineering, 20 from the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 11 from the Mellon College of Science, eight from the Tepper School of Business, four from the School of Computer Science, one from the College of Fine Arts in Architecture and one with a cross discipline degree from the Science and Humanities Scholars Program.

The student-athletes graduating are:

Men’s Cross Country/Track and Field – Josh Antonson, Marc-Daniel Julien, Grant Langevin
Women’s Cross Country/Track and Field – Haley Bryant, Sophia Greene, Nina Hill, Jillian Jaycox, Taylor Maggiacomo, Erin Persson, Kira Ragazzo, Rekha Schnepf, Abby Smith, Natalie Smith, Liz Snyder
Men’s Basketball – Blake Chasen, Kemal Dincer, Jason Sebak
Women’s Basketball – Liza Otto, Lindsay Poss
Football – Marcus Anthony, Nico Comsa, Vince Demarchi, David DePoi, Evan Englert, Will French, Andrew Garibaldi, Andrew Hearon, Christopher Herrera, Ted Houlis, Michael Lombardo, Max Reinertsen, Graham Schilling, Steve Sroba
Women's Golf – Yoon Hee Ha
Men’s Soccer – Greg Allen, Eric Bykowsky, Stefan Dasbach, Jordan Friedlander, Alex James, William Webb
Women’s Soccer – Amanda Broderick, Hannah Lyness, Alli McGugan, Louisa Pendergast, Carson Quiros
Men’s Swimming and Diving – Noah Fatsi, Steven Geier, Jay Jin, Matthew Nielsen, Peter Podniesinski, Joseph Robinson
Women’s Swimming and Diving – Julia Atwood, Andie Azofeifa, Corrine Bacigal, Hannah Hoffert, Winona Li, Lexi Mod, Janay Parrish, Paige Sieffert, Kira Singhaus, Felicia Wang
Men’s Tennis – Abhishek Alla, Yuvraj Kumar
Women’s Tennis – Abbey Hamstra, Brooke Tsu
Men’s Track and Field – Patrick Chang, Jeff Chen, Aleksander Kirchmann, Ben Neiman, Victor Yan
Women’s Track and Field – Jenna Asperslag, Carly Bair
Volleyball – Taylor Bell