Huskers Earn Academic Accolades

Lincoln ??The Nebraska women's gymnastics team added 10 gymnasts among an impressive list of?302 Nebraska student-athletes across all sports who claimed spots on the Big 12 Commissioner's?Spring Academic Honor Roll, the University of Nebraska announced on Monday,?June 15.?

Among the?302 student-athletes who achieved 3.0 or better grade-point averages during the semester,?52 Huskers posted perfect 4.0 GPAs, including gymnast Kristin Fyffe.

Fyffe, a freshman from Cincinnati, Ohio, posted a perfect 4.0 GPA during the spring. She is currently an undeclared major at Nebraska. She led the Huskers along with repeat honorees Tricia Woo and Kathryn Howard, both earning their fifth honor roll nods.

Fyfffe, Woo and Howard were joined on the spring honor roll by teammates Kylie Stone, Maria Scaffidi, Brittnee Habbib, Stephanie Seich, Kailey Ryan, Kassandra Nathe and Lora Evenstad

Nebraska's representation on the spring honor roll marked?a nearly?12 percent increase over last spring, when 270 Huskers earned honor roll spots.?Along with the 32 additional members?of the spring honor roll, 16 more Huskers posted perfect 4.0 grade-point averages this spring compared to the 36 4.0 GPAs notched by NU student-athletes?in the spring of 2008.

Nebraska's approach to recruiting the nation's finest student-athletes yielded a remarkably diverse contingent of?spring academic honorees that included representatives of?30 U.S. states and 29 student-athletes from 12 foreign countries, including honor roll members from four Canadian provinces. Husker honor roll members also came to Nebraska from Australia, Belgium, Brazil,?Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany,?Jamaica,?the Netherlands and?Sweden.?

The Huskers' Big 12 Commissioner's?Spring Academic Honor Roll class also carried a distinct state flavor with 122 native Nebraskans among the?302 award winners.

2009 Big 12 Commissioner's Spring Honor Roll (10)

* denotes 4.0 GPA

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Lora Evenstad, Fr., Undeclared, Grand Forks, N.D.

Kristin Fyffe, Fr., Undeclared, Cincinatti, Ohio*

Brittnee Habbib, So., Communication Studies, North York, Ontario, Canada

Kathryn Howard, Jr., Advertising, Houston, Texas

Kassandra Nathe, Fr., Undeclared, Sartell, Minn.

Kailey Ryan, Fr., Nutrition Science, Franklin, N.C.

Maria Scaffidi, Jr., Hearing Impaired Education, Sussex, Wis.

Stephanie Seich, Fr., Nutrition Science, South Amboy, N.J.

Kylie Stone, Jr., Elementary Education, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Tricia Woo, Sr., Nutrition Science, Milpitas, Calif.