NORFOLK – Eighty-six Old Dominion University student athletes and seven spirit squad members will earn degrees from the University this weekend in the May exercises or in August.
Among the graduates are All-Americans Sarah Breen of field hockey and Chris Mecate of wrestling, who were named the ODU Alumni Association Male and Female Athletes of the Year last week, and Mackenzie Payment of women’s swimming, who earned senior female scholar-athlete of the year honors.
The list of graduates by sport are as follows:
| Baseball | |
| Thomas Busbice | Criminal Justice |
| Nick Lustrino | Biology |
| Connor Myers | Sport Management |
| Josiah Burney | Psychology |
| Jake Josephs | Accounting |
| Jason McMurray | Sociology |
| Michael Rienerth | Management |
| Men's Basketball | |
| Aaron Bacote | Finance |
| Trey Freeman | Sport Management (Master’s) |
| Ambrose Mosley | Criminal Justice |
| Martin Shaw | Criminal Justice |
| Women's Basketball | |
| Annika Holopainen | Communications |
| Laquanda Younger | Parks, Recreation and Tourism |
| Field Hockey | |
| Sarah Breen | Geology |
| Alex Iqbal | Engineering Management (Master’s) |
| Teisha King | Physical Education |
| Emily Harting | Exercise Science |
| Football | |
| Poncho Barnwell | African American Studies |
| C. |