Thirty-One Tulane Student-Athletes Earn Degrees in 2001-02
 |  A junior in eligibility this season, Slaughter will earn her bachelor's degree in Sociology in August 2002. She has been accepted into the Graduate School of Social Work beginning in fall 2002 while she plays her senior year of basketball. |
May 23, 2002
Tulane University continues to prove itself as a model program for combined academic and athletic success as 31 Green Wave student-athletes from nine different teams will have earned their degrees by the end of the 2001-2002 school year. The 2001-02 graduates include 10 members of the Green Wave's 2001 football team and 13 total football players, five women's track and field athletes and three student-athletes each from the women's tennis and women's basketball squads.
Green Wave student-athletes earned degrees in a variety of disciplines with the largest group - 10 - earning business degrees from Tulane's prestigious A.B. Freeman School of Business. Another five student-athletes were computer information systems majors. Other majors were as varied as the student-athletes themselves...from the biology degree earned by track athlete Lyndie Galka, to the organizational information technology specialty of football punter Casey Roussel. Other popular majors were media arts, sociology, exercise science and social science.
If a full schedule of competition and classes weren't enough, eight student-athletes among this year's graduates added to their loads by choosing to double major. That group included NFL first round draft choice Patrick Ramsey, an accounting and finance major, and women's golfers Pia Alamaki (finance and history) and Marcela Gonzalez (finance and information systems). Last year's Female Scholar Athlete of the Year, women's tennis standout Anna Monhartova, completed her degree in political science and Russian, then remained on campus to begin graduate studies.
A pair of Green Wave football players, Glenn Lemoine and Zander Robinson, graduated in business management and sociology, respectively, prior to their senior seasons in 2001 and entered graduate school while still playing for Tulane. That will be the case next year for women's basketball standout Gwen Slaughter, who will graduate this summer with a degree in sociology and then will begin work on her master's degree in social work next fall while completing her senior season.
"I'm very proud of this group of graduating student-athletes," said Rick Dickson, Tulane Director of Athletics. "Too often in this business, you only hear about the on-the-field victories, draft choices and All-Americans. This list contains 30 success stories for Tulane Athletics."
2001-2002 TULANE STUDENT-ATHLETE GRADUATES
Name (Last Season of Eligibility), Major
Baseball
Brandon Belanger ('00), Social Science
Steve Shirley ('01)
Women's Basketball
Sarah Goree ('02), Management
Salome Hector ('02), Computer Information Systems
Gwen Slaughter ('03), Sociology
Football
Meldon Barnes ('01), Media Arts
Adrian Burnette ('00), Media Arts
Charles Caldwell ('01), Computer Information Systems
Preston Curtis ('01), Social Science
Trey Godfrey ('01), Exercise Science
Corey Jones ('00), Computer Information Systems
Jamal Jones ('01), Computer Information Systems
Glenn Lemoine ('01), Business Management (5/'01 grad); MBA program ('01-'02)
Patrick Ramsey ('01), Accounting & Finance
Zander Robinson ('01), Sociology (5/'01 grad); MSW program ('01-'02)
Casey Roussel ('01), Organizational Information Technology
Corey Sewell ('01), Accounting
John Wilson ('00), Computer Information Systems
Women's Golf
Pia Alamaki ('02), Finance & History
Marcela Gonzalez ('02), Finance & Information Systems
Men's Tennis
Mikko Viljanen ('01), Marketing & Information Systems
Women's Tennis
Anneli Axaster ('02), Accounting & Finance
Maiko Cook ('02), Finance & Economics
Anna Monhartova ('01), Political Science & Russian
Men's Track & Field
Peter Rotich ('01), Engineering & Computer Science
Women's Track & Field
Nikelola Balogun ('01), Marketing
Lyndie Galka ('02), Biology
Katrina Gemmell ('02), Exercise Science
Asha James ('02), Sociology
Quasheba Lee ('01), Media Arts
Volleyball
Ashley Reese ('00), Psychology
& Indicates double major.
