55 UK Student-Athletes on 2026 Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll – UK Athletics

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A complete of 55 University of Kentucky student-athletes earned a spot on the 2026 Winter Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll, introduced this week by league commissioner Greg Sankey.

The 2026 Winter SEC Academic Honor Roll is predicated on grades from the 2025 spring, summer season, and fall phrases. UK had six representatives from males’s basketball, seven from ladies’s basketball, 11 from ladies’s gymnastics, 9 from rifle, seven from males’s swimming and diving and 15 from ladies’s swimming and diving.

Among different {qualifications}, a student-athlete should have a 3.0 grade-point common for the previous educational 12 months or a cumulative 3.0 GPA to be named to the record.

Earlier this season, UK Athletics revealed that the 2025 fall semester marked the division’s twenty seventh consecutive time period with a cumulative grade-point common of three.0 or increased. Wildcat scholarship student-athletes collectively earned a 3.414 GPA. Leading the division, the ladies’s tennis crew achieved a exceptional 3.88 GPA, setting the best mark amongst all 23 varsity groups. The baseball crew led all males’s groups in GPA with a mark of three.725. In the competing scholarship and non-scholarship class, each varsity crew however one was over the three.0 GPA mark, an unimaginable feat.

UK’s excessive marks within the fall and spring semesters add yet one more milestone of educational success for UK student-athletes. Recently, a complete of 25 present and former University of Kentucky student-athletes participated in December 2025 Commencement with two incomes grasp’s levels. Adding the 116 student-athletes who graduated in May 2025, UK Athletics had 141 graduates in the course of the 2025 calendar 12 months.

UK Athletics helps the tutorial success of its student-athletes by CATS – the primary educational middle of its sort devoted solely to serving student-athletes. CATS is a vital element of UK’s Student-Athlete Experience division, launched as a renewal of the division’s dedication to organize student-athletes to enter life after UK.

Guided by UK Athletics’ Student-Athlete Experience Division, Wildcat student-athletes have achieved a cumulative grade-point common of higher than 3.0 in 26 consecutive semesters, with grades for the autumn semester set to be finalized subsequent week. Recently, UK set the varsity file for its NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 93 p.c, whereas all of UK’s groups surpassed the obligatory rating for the NCAA Academic Progress Rate. UK’s total APR charge was increased than the general nationwide common.

Athlete – Sport – Major
Collin Chandler – M Basketball – Finance
Brandon Garrison – M Basketball – Communication
Walker Horn – M Basketball – Communication
Trent Noah – M Basketball – Sport Leadership
Otega Oweh – M Basketball – Communication
Zach Tow – M Basketball – Management
Lexi Blue – W Basketball – Communication, Marketing
Gabrielle Brooks – W Basketball – Public Health
Amelia Hassett – W Basketball – Journalism
Teonni Key – W Basketball – Sport Leadership
Jordan Obi – W Basketball – Information Communication Technology
Dominika Paurova – W Basketball – Sport Leadership
Clara Strack – W Basketball – Public Health
Chesney Bennett – Gymnastics – Sport Leadership
Creslyn Brose – Gymnastics – Integrated Strategic Communication
Carly Busch – Gymnastics – Sport Leadership
Anna Cashion – Gymnastics – Kinesiology
Cadence Gormley – Gymnastics – Integrated Strategic Communication
Sharon Lee – Gymnastics – Human Health Sciences
Ryan Noonan – Gymnastics – Finance
Alyssa Orgen – Gymnastics – Psychology
Isabella Rivelli – Gymnastics – Kinesiology
Cecily Rizo – Gymnastics – Communication
Delaynee Rodriguez – Gymnastics – Integrated Strategic Communication
Samuel Adkins – Rifle – Electrical Engineering
Sofia Ceccarello – Rifle – Media Arts & Studies
Brandon Evans – Rifle – Criminal Justice
Anthony Hotko – Rifle – Information Communication Technology
Emily Marne – Rifle – Communication Sciences & Disorders
Braden Peiser – Rifle – Agriculture
Liz Probst – Rifle – Kinesiology
Hannah Todd – Rifle – Animal Sciences
Martin Voss – Rifle – Sport Leadership
Adomas Gatulis – M Swimming and Diving – Finance
Caue Gluck – M Swimming and Diving – Civil Engineering
Elijah Greinke – M Swimming and Diving – Finance
Carson Hick – M Swimming and Diving – Political Science
Alec Lampen – M Swimming and Diving – Medical Laboratory Sciences
Justin Peresse – M Swimming and Diving – Management
Levi Sandidge – M Swimming and Diving – Computer Science
Marie Belli – W Swimming and Diving – Public Health
Devynn Bishop – W Swimming and Diving – Earth & Environmental Sciences
Fernanda de Goeij – W Swimming and Diving – Animal Sciences
Lily Delong – W Swimming and Diving – Communication
Ally Frame – W Swimming and Diving – Elementary Education
Avery Giese – W Swimming and Diving – Kinesiology
Libby Grether – W Swimming and Diving – Human Health Sciences
Madison Hartley – W Swimming and Diving – Biology
Paige Housman – W Swimming and Diving – Mathematics
Katy Jost – W Swimming and Diving – Psychology
Madi McGlothen – W Swimming and Diving – Kinesiology
Hayden Penny – W Swimming and Diving – Dietetics
Kristy Pfaff – W Swimming and Diving – Marketing
Billie Sherratt – W Swimming and Diving – Psychology
Lauren West – W Swimming and Diving – Communication Sciences & Disorders