Ohio State Student-Athletes Set to Graduate Sunday – Ohio State Buckeyes
8/27/2005 12:00:00 AM | General
Aug. 27, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio – At summer commencement ceremonies, 23 current or former Ohio State student-athletes will receive undergraduate degrees, six will receive graduate degrees. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Jerome Schottenstein Center on the OSU campus.
Among the honorees are two-time men’s hockey captain JB Bittner, OSU women’s soccer defender Paige Harrison, a member of two Big Ten championship teams, and 2002 track and field All-American Dalanda Jackson. Also receiving his degree is 2002 football national championship team member Bobby Britton, who played for OSU from 2000-03.
Senior Josh Huston and junior Brandon Mitchell of the football team also will be receiving undergraduate degrees. Huston will be enrolling in a second undergraduate degree program, majoring in psychology. Mitchell will begin graduate school, working toward a master’s degree in communication.
STUDENT-ATHLETE GRADUATES
Summer Quarter 2005
| NAME | SPORT | COLLEGE | MAJOR |
| Undergraduate Degrees | |||
| Bencharski, Daymen | Men’s Hockey | HEC | Family Resource Management |
| Bittner, JB | Men’s Hockey | EDU | Sport & Leisure Studies |
| Britton, Bobby | Football | HEC | Family Resource Management |
| Brown, Tamecia | Women’s Track & Field | BUS | Finance |
| Carty, Andrea | Cheerleading | SBS | Psychology |
| Creary, Jennifer | Women’s Hockey | SBS | Criminology |
| Davis, Corey | Cheerleading | AGR | Agriculture |
| Desson, Jennifer | Women’s Hockey | EDU | Sport & Leisure Studies |
| Greicius, Andrew | Men’s Track & Field | SBS | Geology |
| Hanudel, Christopher | Cheerleading | EDU | Sport & Leisure Studies |
| Harpster, Nick | Men’s Wrestling | BUS | Finance |
| Harrison, Paige | Women’s Soccer | EDU | Exercise Science |
| Henry, Pannsy | Women’s Track & Field | BUS | Marketing |
| Huston, Joshua | Football | BUS | Real Estate & Urban Development |
| Jackson, Dalanda | Women’s Track & Field | SBS | Criminology |
| Kuhn, Alicia | Women’s Track & Field | HEC | Textile & Clothing |
| Larson, Shelaine | Women’s Track & Field | SBS | Criminology |
| McCauley, Jacob | Men’s Track & Field | SBS | Psychology |
| Mitchell, Brandon | Football | SBS | Political Science |
| Schmehling, Elizabeth | Women’s Lacrosse | SBS | Communications |
| Sciortino, Ryan | Men’s Swimming | SBS | Political Science |
| Weir, Nathan | Men’s Fencing | BIO | Molecular Genetics |
| Welsh, Thomas | Men’s Hockey | EDU | Exercise Science |
| Graduate Degrees | |||
| Brandes, Matthew | Men’s Lacrosse | ||
| Draeger, Michelle | Women’s Volleyball | ||
| Glaser, Melissa | Women’s Ice Hockey | ||
| Heintz, Rebecca | Women’s Track and Field | ||
| Reynolds, Didi | Women’s Basketball | ||
| Walsh, Devin | Women’s Rowing |
