University of Houston Athletics
UH Commencement Has Student-Athlete Flair
5/7/2003 12:00:00 AM | General
May 7, 2003
HOUSTON, Texas - The University of Houston Department of Athletics is pleased to announce that 37 student-athletes will graduate this weekend from the University.
Highlighting this year's graduates are 20 football players, including former All-America Ben Fricke, who finished his eligibility in 1997 and played three seasons in the NFL before returning to school to complete his degree. Fricke is the Athletics Department's 2003 Distinguished Graduate.
Other football graduates include KeyKowa Bell, Torrence Botts, Ronnie Braxton, Tim Feathers, Tyrone Green, Bryan Hill, Greg Holte, Quantaa Jackson, Adrian Lee, Victor Malone, Jeremy McCardell, Jonathan Pritchett, Joffrey Reynolds, Brian Robinson, Chris Robertson, Jesse Sowells, Darnerius Watson, Chris Wheeler and Rufus Williams. Reynolds, Robinson and Sowells all signed NFL free agent contracts last week.
Softball heads the remaining list with four, as Amber King, Ali McDougall, Leslie Seay and Tiffany Raburn are set to graduate this spring. Both women's soccer and women's swimming and diving will have three student-athletes graduate. Former soccer players Robin Cate, Tracey Shankle and Ashley Fortenberry will be joined on stage by swimming and diving standouts Jessica Blake, Elissa Nelson and Veronica Smith.
Both Analia Longoni and Jo Keene of women's tennis will take part in the festivities, while track and field's Magenta Taylor, Louis Truscott from men's basketball, baseball's Bryan Harris, golf's Chris Cureton and Gabi Carbone from volleyball round out the rest of the 2003 graduates.
Equipment manager Paul Teeters also will join these student-athletes as University of Houston graduates.
All of these graduates will be honored at a private dinner hosted by the Athletic Department on Thursday, May 8.
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