Zach Bodeau of the men's lacrosse team and Kiri Evans of the softball team led a group of 48 student-athletes from Rockhurst University in receiving the prestigious GLVC Council of Presidents' Academic Excellence Award in the 2019-20 academic year.
Bodeau and Evans were two of 16 GLVC students who met the highest standard of academic excellence by concluding their collegiate careers with an unblemished 4.0 cumulative GPA.
The recipients of the GLVC COP Academic Excellence Award exemplify the outstanding student-athletes in the GLVC. Each honoree has exhausted his or her eligibility in the intercollegiate sport in which they participated and maintained at a least a 3.5 grade point average throughout their academic career.
In addition, to be eligible for the award, the student-athlete must have competed in the GLVC for a minimum of two years and completed 96 credit hours. A student-athlete can only earn the distinguished honor one time per sport in his or her career.
This year's total of 420 student-athletes is a league record and marks the fifth time more than 300 honorees have been recognized since the award was first inaugurated in the spring of 2010. The Rockhurst women's soccer and baseball teams each had six recipients. Men's lacrosse and volleyball each had five recipients. Men's soccer, women's basketball, men's tennis and softball added four recipients apiece.
2019-20 GLVC COP Excellence Award (Rockhurst recipients)
Jake Bastien, Men's Lacrosse
Connor Bateman, Men's Lacrosse
Zach Bodeau, Men's Lacrosse (4.0 in criminal Justice and psychology)
Rosie Breheny, Women's Soccer
Spencer Bright, Men's Lacrosse
Carly Dorminy, Women's Golf
Jack Eisenbarger, Baseball
Jack Eppy, Baseball
Kiri Evans, Softball (4.0 in biochemistry – pre-med)
Kyle Fitzgerald, Men's Soccer
Sara Flaxbeard, Women's Tennis
Griffin Fletcher, Baseball
Jack Hitzemann, Men's Tennis
Rachel Holden, Women's Basketball
Zoe Holden, Women's Cross Country
Morgan Hutchinson, Volleyball
Dorothy Keenan, Women's Golf
Brett Kerner, Men's Golf
Mary Koeller, Women's Soccer
Daniel Kohl, Baseball
Emma Kriete, Volleyball
Lauren Krissman, Women's Basketball
Hannah Lauer, Women's Soccer
Nicolas Leon, Men's Tennis
Pablo Salvador Lopez, Men's Soccer
Carmen Macias, Women's Cross Country
Preston Mboob, Men's Soccer
Stephanie Ostrander, Women's Soccer
Masao Perret, Men's Tennis
Colleen Pikus, Women's Soccer
Olivia Prather, Softball
Karli Reichert, Volleyball
Mary Leigh Rock, Women's Basketball
Mary Rolf, Volleyball
Claudio Romano, Men's Soccer
Cathy Rometti, Women's Soccer
Madeline Ronshausen, Women's Basketball
Jansen Rouillard, Men's Tennis
Abby Sauber, Women's Golf
Nelson Searcy, Men's Golf
Joe Specht, Baseball
Payton Staggs, Softball
Tyler Stamer, Baseball
Sal Valdivia, Men's Lacrosse
Matt Wahle, Men's Golf
Maggie Witt, Women's Cross Country
Katie Wood, Softball
Alyssa Woodman, Volleyball
