Aaron Murray, Tavarres King among 68 Bulldogs graduating Friday
A long list of Bulldogs graduating at spring commencement on Friday at Sanford Stadium. In fact, 68 UGA student-athletes will receive degrees.
Some of notable football players grabbing their sheepskin include: Quarterback Aaron Murray, wide receiver Tavarres King and offensive lineman Clint Boling. Murray, who has two years of eligibility remaining, got it done in three-and-a-half years. Also of note, the 11 gridiron graduates brings to 222 the number who have received degrees under head coach Mark Richt.
Here’s the whole list:
Baseball
Kevin Ruiz, Finance, Alpharetta, Ga.
Men’s Basketball
Matt Bucklin, Marketing, Marietta, Ga.; Connor Nolte, Masters in Sport Management, Alpharetta, Ga.; Dustin Ware, Sport Management, Powder Springs, Ga.
Women’s Basketball
Brittney Crews, Biology, Jefferson, Ga.
Equestrian
Alex Andes, Broadcast News, Atlanta, Ga.; Kelsey Berry, Marketing, Alpharetta, Ga.; Ali Eidson, Consumer Journalism, Tuscola, Texas; Sarah Gravely, Management Information Systems, Palmetto, Fla.; Katie Hagerty, Art/Fabric Design, Wakefield, R.I.; Hayley Haskins, Fashion Merchandising, Alpharetta, Ga.; Tara Maloney, Management Information Systems, Milton, Ga.; Diandra St. Hilaire, Criminal Justice and Psychology, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Kelly Truesdell, Health Promotion, Brights Grove, Ontario; Katelyn Van Allen, History, Sorrento, Fla.
Football
John Bodin, Anthropology, Covington, Ga.; Brandon Bogotay, Family Financial Planning, San Diego, Calif.; Clint Boling, Risk Management & Insurance, Alpharetta, Ga.; Ty Frix, Biological Engineering, Calhoun, Ga.; Billy Johnson, Sport Management, Braselton, Ga.; Tavarres King, Social Studies Education, Mount Airy, Ga.; Jeremy Longo, Housing, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Aaron Murray, Psychology, Tampa, Fla.; Jeremy Sulek, Finance, Dacula, Ga.; Wes Van Dyk, Management, Highland Park, Texas; Jason Veal, Finance, Lilburn, Ga.
Men’s Golf
Lowery Thomas, Risk Management & Insurance, Auburn, Ala.
Women’s Golf
Marta Silva Zamora, Communication Studies, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Gymnastics
Amber Trani, Advertising, Richlandtown, Pa.
Soccer
Traci Dreesen, Biology and Psychology, Lakewood, Colo.; Marah Falle, Exercise & Sport Science, Lilburn, Ga.; Mariah Krase, Sociology, Spring, Texas; Ashley Miller, Child & Family Development, Lake Mary, Fla.
Softball
Alisa Goler, Masters in Recreation & Leisure, Frankfort, Ill.; Brianna Hesson, Sociology, Sugar Hill, Ga.; Brittney Hubbard, Magazines, Victorville, Calif.; Sarah McCloud, Health Promotion, Celina, Texas; Laura Trout, Magazines, Summerville, S.C.
Swimming and Diving
Matt Bartlett, Risk Management & Insurance, Atlanta, Ga.; Bill Cregar, Biology, Sewell, N.J.; Mark Dylla, Finance and Real Estate, Littleton, Colo.; Lauren English, Communication Science & Disorders, Lincoln Park, N.J.; Kevin Frankenfeld, Economics and Finance, Austin, Texas; Colleen Haase, Psychology, Rockville, Md.; Martin Kata, Health & Physical Education, Martinez, Ga.; Todd McGraw, Real Estate, Beckley, W. Va.; Michelle McKeehan, Communication Studies, Greenwood, Ind.; Courtney Monsees, Psychology, San Jose, Calif.; Emily Montesinos, Geography, Riverdale, Ga.; Hannah Moore, Landscape Architecture, Moultrie, Ga.; Sara Nicponski, Communication Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah; Adam Parker, Biology, Maryville, Tenn.; Morgan Scroggy, Agricultural Engineering, Aurora, Ore.; Wendy Trott, International Affairs, Capetown, S. Africa
Men’s Tennis
Javier Garrapiz, Economics, Huesca, Spain; Will Reynolds, Communication Studies, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Christian Vitulli, Landscape Architecture, Mombasa, Kenya
Track and Field
Michael Ayers, Consumer Economics, Nashville, Tenn.; Tommy Barrineau, Health Promotion, Burke, Va.; Hadley Ferguson, Fashion Merchandising, Fernandina Beach, Fla.; Joseph Hackney, History, Marietta, Ga.; Cory Holman, Communication Studies, Huber Heights, Ohio; Emily Houston, Advertising, Jensen Beach, Fla.; Aaron LaGarde, Communication Studies, Gray, La.; Brian Moore, Sociology, Willow Grove, Pa.; Trevor Sprague, Biology, Dunwoody, Ga.; Rachel Travis, Masters in Marketing Research, St. Charles, Mo.; Carin Walker, Telecommunication Arts, Alpharetta, Ga.
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202 comments Add your comment
Chuck Clausen
May 9th, 2012
3:00 pm
My Dad’s father quit school at the end of the 5th grade – my dad largely because his athletic skills became not only to graduate from high school went to college on scholarship played baseball a couple of years with the Indians. Before becoming a high school coach – received his masters at Northwestern – Retired as the Veep at the University of Arizona
Umari
May 9th, 2012
3:10 pm
Oh yea, oh yea, unk
Mom & Pops
May 9th, 2012
3:14 pm
Congratulations to Aaron LaGarde!!! We are proud of you and your accomplishemnts. School is over now get out of our pockets, lol. We love you very much.
Lions Den
May 9th, 2012
3:59 pm
CONGRATULATIONS to Erika Allen – Member of the UGA Ladies Track Team who is also graduating on Friday 5/11/12. Formerly of MLK HS class of 2008!!!!
GTBoob
May 9th, 2012
4:01 pm
Hi. I am GTBob’s wife. Please forgive him for being such a tool but he has this tiny little thingy and he is really self concious about it and it makes him act out sometimes.
I mean if you could see it. It’s smaller than my pinky.
His mother told me he was a bedwetter until he was 13 and she had trouble potty traing him. He’s much better now but we still have to take the potty with us whenever he goes out and it kinda embarrasses him to take it when we go to someone elses’s house.
By the way, does anyone know the name and number of a good divorce lawyer?
Gotta run. He’s getting off the potty and I have to help him wipe.
Dawg Alum
May 9th, 2012
4:23 pm
Does anyone else think it is funny that GT Bob tried to say GT’s QBs (Hamilton and Ball) were not coddled? I find it hilarious…..how did those guys conveniently flunked-out AFTER they had used up their eligibility? Hmmmmmmmm
OK, GTBob will argue that only Ball flunked-out…..and Hamilton received his degree in management after 11 years. Eleven Years!!!!! Of course we are talking about the “holier than thou” trade school that is on probation, lied to NCAA investigators, etc. BUT, they don’t coddle their players….RIGHT!
LHarding Dawg
May 9th, 2012
4:32 pm
Congrats to all getting degrees!
GT Bob
May 9th, 2012
4:43 pm
You may be a Jacket but your Momma’s a Dog!
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
4:48 pm
GTBob, please say hello for me to your wife and my kids when they get home this afternoon.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
4:51 pm
Does anyone else think it is funny that GT Bob tried to say GT’s QBs (Hamilton and Ball) were not coddled? I find it hilarious
I find it hilarious that UGA fans just automatically assume that Ball and Hamilton were terrible in the classroom without anything to base it off of. Actually, it seems a little bit racist.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
4:54 pm
GTBob, please say hello for me to your wife and my kids when they get home this afternoon.
I’m not married. You must have slept with some other guys wife.
Shocker
May 9th, 2012
5:02 pm
“I’m not married.”
Shocker. Can’t even find one person in this world that can stand to be in the same room with you
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
5:07 pm
It’s 5:00 GTBob. Time to leave your cubicle and go home for the day.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:08 pm
Shocker. Can’t even find one person in this world that can stand to be in the same room with you
You have pretty low expectations for marriage. I have someone, I am just likely never getting married.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:12 pm
It’s 5:00 GTBob. Time to leave your cubicle and go home for the day.
I’m already home.
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
5:18 pm
A blow up doll doesn’t count, GTBob.
Now put down the vibrator and step away from the bed.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:21 pm
A blow up doll doesn’t count, GTBob.
Now put down the vibrator and step away from the bed.
Wow, these insults are getting more and more weak. Are blow up dolls and vibrators the best you can come up with?
BillDog
May 9th, 2012
5:26 pm
All degrees and majors are valuable and even more so when one takes into consideration the number of hours and hard physical work required to maintain an anthletic scholarship.
I have hired many successful college graduates with a wide range of majors. It became evident to me that a student who earned a degree while playing a varsity sport or working full time was a safe bet to be able to put in the time and effort necessary to learn a new job.
Congratulations to all of these fine young people.
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
5:31 pm
Na, the best involve your mom and you living in her basement.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:35 pm
Na, the best involve your mom and you living in her basement.
My mom passed away 3 years ago.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:37 pm
It became evident to me that a student who earned a degree while playing a varsity sport or working full time was a safe bet to be able to put in the time and effort necessary to learn a new job.
Here is a UGA student athletes resume:
http://popel.myweb.uga.edu/Resume.htm
Would you hire this person?
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
5:43 pm
I would hire him before I would hire you. He has higher character than you.
You could never be trusted.
sr. citizen dawg
May 9th, 2012
5:46 pm
GTBob can gain no satisfaction from the GT athletic program (s) therefore must resign himself to casting criticism upon UGA. Take note GTBob…….It didn’t work. You and your type are pitiful.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:48 pm
I would hire him before I would hire you. He has higher character than you.
He is probably higher then me.
UGA 1976
May 9th, 2012
5:48 pm
Also Leonard Pope will be play in his 7th year in the NFL this coming year with Pittsburgh.
I’m sure he has already made more money at 28 years old than you will make in a lifetime with your degree from wherever you earned it.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:50 pm
Take note GTBob…….It didn’t work.
What didn’t work? I am pretty sure I accomplished criticizing them. Whether you care or not is up to you. Some on here obviously do though.
GTBob
May 9th, 2012
5:54 pm
I’m sure he has already made more money at 28 years old than you will make in a lifetime with your degree from wherever you earned it.
You are full of assumptions aren’t you? Kudos to him for being a big dumb guy with athletic ability. Its quite an accomplishment.
Bulldawagman49
May 9th, 2012
6:23 pm
GT BOB and his pointless comments, I wonder what he does for a living ? Does it really matter anyway if you do what you want to do. It is real easy to sit and judge someone because he thinks it is below his standards , I guess he has a dead end JOB and is wishing he would have majored in Magazine reading or whatever he said .
Enough said Good luck to all the Grads wish you luck in your furture no matter what !!! GO DAWGS !!!!
Vince Doodley
May 9th, 2012
6:39 pm
Congratulations to these young people. You make your parents proud and you’ve acomplished one of lifes great achievements. A college degree will open many doors when your athletic career ends. Great job men and women.
Dumbo
May 9th, 2012
7:10 pm
GTBob….it must be hell telling your Mama that you’re INSTITUTIONALIZED!!!!!!!!!!! Rut Roh
StackedDeck
May 9th, 2012
7:34 pm
Congrats to you all …’Monkey…you said it right! GO DAWGS!!! Hoooorah!!
UGA / ‘76
kybodawg
May 9th, 2012
7:56 pm
auburn also held theres and the agents for three footballers showed up to accept, and an irs agent was there to collect there 10 percent.
Bob
May 9th, 2012
8:20 pm
Good for all these students. But, I’ve never heard of half the football players, and why do we have to underwright all these meaningless and non-revenue sports? Why doesn’t someone have the ‘nads to sue the NCAA over this “title nine” bs? What a waste of taxpayer monies.
Dalton Dawg
May 9th, 2012
10:09 pm
Chip, everyone graduating is actually a Bulldawg!! Not just the athletes! Congrats to everyone who is receiving their degree on Friday!! Go Dawgs!!
Rangerdawg
May 9th, 2012
10:56 pm
Maybe they will teach Murray in grad school that you tend to lose when you spot the other team 2 TD’s!
jojo
May 9th, 2012
11:41 pm
oh, for crying out loud! Not everybody can be a Dawg, so GTBob is surely depressed about that. Congrats to all the Dawgs who have and who will graduate from the same school i did in 76. Be proud, be very proud! And by the way, those 22 Rhodes scholars have made UGA very proud, also.
TROLL PATROLL
May 9th, 2012
11:59 pm
Thank God there was a GT blog tonight so GTBob would feel a kindred spirit.
Jesus christ
May 10th, 2012
2:03 am
Sad commentary that an athlete with a degree is news. Now get in the unemployment line with the millions of Obama supporters.
ozzfest
May 10th, 2012
7:48 am
I hope Richt asked Murray to take a few RISK MANAGEMENT classes.
SKB
May 10th, 2012
9:47 am
Congrats to all the graduates.
WDE
May 10th, 2012
12:08 pm
Congrats to all of then and best luck in the future…DGD’s !
WDE
May 10th, 2012
12:10 pm
@Techster you didn’t know you could earn college credits from prison..really ask every Bug student hiding under the beds in their dorms behind locked doors, if they don’t feel like they are in prison…you tool.
Neutral
May 10th, 2012
9:11 pm
I think Dawg Alum rattled ole GT Bob’s cage yesterday at 4:23!!!! Not sure why GTBob said that was a racist blog. Is it racist when he criticizes AM or other UGa QBs? Maybe GT Bob is the racist because it never entered my mind or anyone elses that Dawg Alum was being racist….he was just stating facts….nothing else. P.S. Great comment Dawg Alum…..I think I’ll bring that point up whenever Tech fans brag about their (nonexistant) academic prowess.
Neutral
May 10th, 2012
9:14 pm
@Techster,
The answer is NO to your question and NO football player has flunked out of remedial studies at Tech!!!
rogeriter
May 11th, 2012
2:31 am
The purpose of a college degree is to take courses that are relevant to that degree. It is not to take and pass hard courses just to prove you can do it! Many GT students choose engineering and they will likely have some courses that are harder. But if someone wants to study to be a football coach (that’s a great profession) their courses may be easier than that of an engineer but more relevent to their chosen profession. Taking hard courses is nothing to be proud of. Incedently, I only finished two years of college at Dekalb Tech. But I probably made more money than almost all Tech Grads. I ran companies with three hundred employees, I was President of one of the largest Board of Realtors in the south. I was a highly paid speaker/teacher within the real estate industry. I did seminars in all of the states except four. I produced and was featured in twenty video tapes on selling by Better Home and Gardens.I have written and published two books and I am a member of The Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame as a songwriter. Who says you can’t do well without a college degree?
Dr. Craig Spinks/ Georgians for Educational Excellence
May 11th, 2012
2:47 am
CONGRATULATIONS, graduating student-athletes.
Brookhaven Bulldog
May 12th, 2012
10:28 am
@GTBob – being a graduate of UGA, and having a number of friends who graduated from GT, I will jump into the mix and say that ALL of the GT grads I know openly admit that Industrial Engineering is not a challenging major although admittedly more difficult than Rec Studies. “Magazines” is not a major, a degree in Journalism with an emphasis in Magazines is. With that being said, the journalism college at UGA is one of the best in the country and the last time I checked magazines are very relevant. If you read the article above, you would see that the degrees obtained from UGA football players include: Anthropology, Family Financial Planning, Risk Management & Insurance, Biological Engineering, Sport Management, Social Studies Education, Housing, Psychology, Management, Finance. Not one of the majors you pointed out as cush majors for football players. Good for anyone who uses football to get them an education and go on to better things. Shame on you for letting you competitive nature for a program you probably never played against turn you to route against a young man or woman trying to better themselves through athletics.
Brookhaven Bulldog
May 12th, 2012
10:29 am
pardon the typo….”you” should have been “your” in the last sentence.
Peachtree John
May 12th, 2012
5:15 pm
With Murry graduating, how is he able to continue playing football? Will he be a full time football player or will he have to enter graduate school?
Brookhaven Bulldog
May 13th, 2012
12:20 am
@Peachtree John: You can take post Bachalorette (spp?) classes or work toward a second undergraduate degree.