5 Tucson Students Achieve Academically, Athletically

TUCSON, AZ — Tucson students attending universities all over the United States are achieving academically and athletically, and one recently earned a scholarship.

Darrian Wyble was named to The Citadel’s spring 2019 dean’s list. To achieve the honor, students and cadets attending the military college must take 12 or more credit hours per semester and earn at least a 3.20 GPA with no grades less than C and no I (incomplete) grades. Attendees at Charleston, South Carolina's The Citadel aren’t required to engage in military service, but around one-third do, the university reported.

Mary Tom qualified for the New York Institute of Technology’s Athletic Director’s Honor Roll. Tom and the others named to the roll for the spring 2019 semester had to earn at least a 3.20 GPA. Tom plays on the university’s softball team. Meanwhile, the New York Institute of Technology’s goal is “to provide career-oriented professional education,” according to a release from the university. The school offers more than 90 professional, undergraduate, and graduate programs in 50 majors such as biology, computer science, data, architecture, medicine, engineering, IT, management and more.

Marcus Castillo was named to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s wrestling team. Little Rock's is among the country’s newest Division I wrestling programs. The program is also the only one of its kind in Arkansas. Castillo’s team, the Trojans, will battle against other teams in the Pac 12 Conference. The UA Little Rock offers 100 programs to about 10,000 students, while engaging them in service, research, career and social opportunities.

Ollie Jeoung, a class of 2019 member and Theatre major, was inducted into Knox College’s Phi Beta Kappa honor society. The university’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter was established in 1916, and Knox College is among the 10 percent of universities and colleges in the U.S. that have one. The Galesburg, Ill. Knox College’s “Old Main” is the sole building left from the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 and was named a National Historic Landmark.

Deevany Tirado Flores, an Animal Science major at Iowa State University, received the 2019-2020 school year Kolschowsky Foundation scholarship from the university’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences “and affiliated academic units,” the university reported. Iowa State, situated in Ames, Iowa, is a public-research university offering hundreds of student organizations and clubs and thousands of co-op and internship opportunities. Its students come from more than 100 countries and all 50 states.