A total of 50 Alabama Student-Athletes Slated for Winter Commencement Saturday
12/15/2017 11:41:00 AM | Baseball, Football, General, Men's Basketball, Men's Tennis, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Gymnastics, Rowing, Soccer, Women's Tennis, Swimming & Diving, Track & Field, Cross Country
The Crimson Tide's December graduates include 19 past and present members of the football team
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - A total of 50 Crimson Tide student-athletes are slated to receive their degrees Saturday during The University of Alabama's winter commencement. That total includes 12 All-Americans, two NCAA Champions, two world champions and an Olympic gold medalist.
The Alabama football team has 19 past and present student-athletes slated to graduate this weekend, including All-Americans Rashaan Evans and JK Scott along with fellow starters Robert Foster, Hootie Jones, Christian Miller, Andy Pappanastos and Cam Sims. Pappanastos is earning his master's degree, while Keith Holcombe, who also plays for the Tide baseball team, is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree.
There are three former Tide football players slated to get their degrees, including Glen Coffee and Tarrant Lynch as well as All-American and Butkus Award winner Rolando McClain. Coffee and McClain both played in the NFL following their Alabama careers.
All together there will be 25 graduates on Alabama's 2018 Sugar Bowl roster, including 12 that graduated prior to the start of the season and 13 graduating this weekend.
The track and field program has a pair of World Champions among their December graduates. World and Olympic gold medalist and Crimson Tide NCAA champion and All-American Kirani James will receive his diploma on Saturday while World Champion and UA All-American Jereem Richards will also be among the graduates.
Also among the track and field and cross country family, All-American and 2017 NCAA Indoor Pole Vault Champion Lakan Taylor and All-American Jacopo Lahbi will graduate this weekend, while All-American and SEC champion Emmanuel Bor and All-American Katelyn Greenleaf both earn master's degrees this semester.
Gymnasts Aja Sims and Kiana Winston and swimmers Bridget Blood round out the Crimson Tide All-Americans set for December graduation. Winston is in the midst of her senior season and will compete her final season as a UA graduate, while Sims and Blood finished their careers last season.
Saturday's graduation will also see a pair basketball starters among the honorees in men's guard/forward Riley Norris and women's guard Hannah Cook.
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2017 University of Alabama Athletics December Graduates
- Hunter Alexander, Baseball
- Bryan Arthur, Men's Track and Field
- Caroline Barlow, Women's Track and Field/Cross Country
- Vanessa Barone, Rowing
- Bridget Blood, Women's Swimming and Diving
- Emmanuel Bor, Men's Track and Field/Cross Country
- Hailey Brohaugh, Women's Soccer
- Joshua Casher, Football
- Lacey Clarida, Women's Soccer
- Ronnie Clark, Football
- Glen Coffee, Football
- Hannah Cook, Women's Basketball
- Danielle Davis, Rowing
- Rashaan Evans, Football
- Robert Foster, Football
- Joshua Frazier, Football
- Katelyn Greenleaf, Women's Track and Field/Cross Country
- Abbee Hall, Rowing
- Meghan Hampton, Rowing
- Jeremy Harden, Men's Track and Field
- Grant Hill, Football
- Keith Holcombe, Football/Baseball
- Kirani James, Men's Track and Field
- Hootie Jones, Football
- Brandon Kennedy, Football
- Ritchie Kruunenberg, Men's Tennis
- Jacopo Lahbi, Men's Track and Field
- Tarrant Lynch, Football
- Rolando McClain, Football
- Joshua McCullan, Men's Track and Field
- Christian Miller, Football
- Nicole Morales, Women's Golf
- Riley Norris, Men's Basketball
- Andy Pappanastos, Football
- Jacob Parker, Football
- Jared Reaves, Baseball
- Jereem Richards, Men's Track and Field
- DaiJia Ruffin, Women's Basketball
- Joanna Savva, Women's Tennis
- JK Scott, Football
- Cam Sims, Football
- Aja Sims, Gymnastics
- Brianna Sims, Women's Track and Field
- Daniel Skehan, Football
- Nate Staskelunas, Football
- Karolina Szczepaniak, Women's Swimming and Diving
- Lakan Taylor, Women's Track and Field
- J.C. Wilhite, Baseball
- Kiana Winston, Gymnastics
- Taylor Zablocki, Women's Swimming and Diving
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