Willamette Student-Athletes Receive Graduation Honors and Department Awards

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SALEM, Ore. -- Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences celebrates students with graduations honors, as well as departmental honors and department awards that recognize undergraduates for their work, skill, and promise. In addition, students inducted into honor societies also are recognized each year. Congratulations to the student-athletes listed below, who received graduation honors and department awards this year, or were inducted into honor societies.

College of Arts and Sciences Graduation Honors

Summa Cum Laude

  • Sydney Wilson (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science

Cum Laude

  • Camille Gibney (Women's Tennis), Environmental Science
  • Jordan Roue (Women's Soccer), Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics
  • Morgan Yamane (Women's Basketball), Exercise and Health Science

Department Graduation Honors

  • Oliver Anderson (Men's Track and Field), Biology
  • Emma Blackburn (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science
  • Cassie Cosler (Softball), Biology
  • Robbie Daugherty (Men's Swimming), Studio Art
  • Omar Dominguez Pascasio (Men's Soccer), Biology
  • Isabel Duxbury (Women's Soccer), Environmental Science
  • Julia Fectaeu (Women's Soccer/Women's Lacrosse), Biology
  • Ethan Fischel (Baseball), Environmental Science
  • Jewel Fleckenstein (Softball), Exercise and Health Science
  • Camille Gibney (Women's Tennis), Environmental Science
  • Dana Hamilton (Women's Cross Country/Women's Track and Field), Chemistry
  • Surya Lee (Women's Swimming), Environmental Science/Public Health
  • Audrey Piacsek (Women's Cross Country/Women's Track and Field), English
  • Gabriel Regimbal (Men's Cross Country/Men's Track and Field), Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics
  • Jordan Roue (Women's Soccer), Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics
  • Mack van der Velde (Men's Soccer), Economics
  • Sydney Wilson (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science
  • Morgan Yamane (Women's Basketball), Exercise and Health Science

Honor Societies

Mortar Board

  • Emma Blackburn (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science
  • Mack van der Velde (Men's Soccer), Economics

Phi Beta Kappa

  • Camille Gibney (Women's Tennis), Environmental Science
  • Surya Lee (Women's Swimming), Environmental Science/Public Health
  • Jordan Roue (Women's Soccer), Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics
  • Sydney Wilson (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science
  • Morgan Yamane (Women's Basketball), Exercise and Health Science

Chi Alpha Sigma - Willamette had 45 student-athletes who qualified for induction this year. Chi Alpha Sigma honors excellence in athletics and academics (See other press release)

Department Awards

  • Robbie Daugherty (Men's Swimming), Art, Joy Lorraine Hayhurst Award
  • Morgan Richards (Women's Soccer), Art History, Hallie Ford Art Scholarship
  • Taylor Hamura (Cheerleading), Biology, William B. Webber Scholarship - Biology
  • Melissa Duncan (Women's Cross Country/Women's Track and Field), Chemistry, Arthur Payton Scholarship
  • Will Braaton (Baseball), Chemistry, Nancy K. Detering Waechter Scholarship
  • Leila Fischer (Women's Cross Country/Women's Track and Field), Chemistry, Peterson Family Scholarship; Environmental Science, Heather Dempsey Environmental Science Scholarship
  • Dana Hamilton (Women's Cross Country/Women's Track and Field), Chemistry, Organic Chemistry Award
  • Marissa Terwilliger (Cheerleading), Covic Communication and Media, Shannon P. Hogue
  • Ian Curtis (Men's Cross Country/Men's Track and Field), Economics, Oliver C. Brown Scholarship; Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics, PPLE Scholarship
  • Jewel Fleckenstein (Softball), Economics, Richard M. Gillis Senior Award in Economics
  • Kiona Apio (Volleyball, Women's Track and Field), Environmental Science, Academic Excellence in Environmental Science
  • Meghan Hook (Women's Golf), Exercise and Health Science, Exercise Science Impact Award
  • Sydney Wilson (Women's Soccer), Exercise and Health Science, Scholar Award
  • Anushka Srivastav (Women's Golf), French, Helen Yeomans Luther Scholarship - French
  • Catie Kawamura (Women's Lacrosse), History, Dr. Ivan Lovell History Scholarship
  • Emerald Russell (Cheerleading), Music, Music Award; Music, Gilbert J. Clausman Music Scholarship; Music, Nancy Black Wallace Scholarship
  • Roscoe McDonald (Men's Cross Country/Men's Track and Field), Music, Music Scholarship
  • Danielle Groff (Cheerleading), Music, Gilbert J. Clausman Music Scholarship
  • Andrew Kropp (Men's Tennis), Gilbert J. Clausman Music Scholarship
  • Katherine Thornton (Women's Track and Field), Physics, William B. Webber Scholarship - Physics
  • Jordan Roue (Women's Soccer), Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics, Karen Wyckoff Award; Psychology, Paul M. Evans Award
  • Jasmine Shigeno (Women's Basketball), Pre-Health, Ralph E. Purvine Scholarship
  • Surya Lee (Women's Swimming), Public Health, Outstanding Advocacy in Public Health