June 17, 2005

NEW ORLEANS, La. - A total of 51 current and former Tulane student-athletes were awarded degrees in commencement ceremonies held in December of 2004 and May of 2005. The list of graduates includes 10 football players, including Tennessee Titans signees Roydell Williams and Chris Bush, and six athletes from the baseball, volleyball and women's track and field teams.

Five individuals - baseball's Scott Madden and Bryan Stelmack, men's basketball's Ivan Pjevcevic, women's basketball's Tymeka Moore and Goran Vasiljevic of men's tennis - earned Master of Finance degrees while soccer's Asia Simons completed her master's degree in accounting.

Seventeen student-athletes completed double-majors, including marketing and management (volleyball's Kim Swafford, track and field's Jelena Jurlina, Natalie Walsh and Tiffany Wilson of women's basketball), finance and legal studies (baseball's Ricky Fairchild and football's Lane Macaluso), and finance and management (volleyball's Deva Fowler and Jeff Osborn of men's golf). Football's Chris Bush and Joey Dawson, volleyball's Iman Houston, soccer's Brook Parker, men's and women's tennis players Hannu Piiroinen and Nancy Kockott and Jonathon Tebeleff, Sarah Bumby and Helmi Leppanen of the track and field teams all graduated with double majors as well.

With three women's basketball players - Tymeka Moore, Natalie Walsh and Tiffany Wilson - 11-year head coach Lisa Stockton continues her 100 percent graduation rate for four-year players, and has three more on target to graduate in December.

The complete list of 2004-05 Tulane student-athlete graduates follows.

Baseball
Joey Charron - Mechanical Engineering
Ricky Fairchild - Finance/Legal Studies
Scott Madden - Master of Finance
Matt Mann - Legal Studies
Tommy Manzella - Legal Studies
Bryan Stelmack - Master of Finance

Football
Chris Bush - ORIT/Media Arts
Lonnie Crayton - Media Arts
Carl Davis - Media Arts
Joey Dawson - Accounting/Finance
Bart Grasso - Civil Engineering
Wesley Heath - Media Arts
Jimmy Kosienski - Social Science
Lane Macaluso - Finance/Legal Studies
Brandon Rottmayer - Media Arts
Roydell Williams - Organizational Information Technology

Men's Basketball
Marcus Kinzer - Social Science
Ivan Pjevcevic - Master of Finance
George Brown - Social Science

Men's Golf
Jeff Osborn - Finance/Management
Bill Roach, Jr. - Finance
Mark Sullivan - Management
Chris Wheeler - Management

Men's Tennis
Hannu Piiroinen - Finance/Marketing
Goran Vasiljevic - Master of Finance

Men's Track and Field/Cross Country
Philip Aagaard - Nueroscience
Eric Hambidge - Anthropology
Jonathon Tebeleff - Marketing/Finance

Volleyball
Deva Fowler - Finance/Management
Iman Houston - Legal Studies/Management
Anastasia Kenon - Communication
Lauren Jones-McClain - Media Arts
Lindsey Norman - Marketing
Kim Swafford - Marketing/Management

Women's Basketball
Tymeka Moore - Master of Finance
Natalie Walsh - Marketing/Management
Tiffany Wilson - Marketing/Management

Women's Golf
Lindsay Hulwick - Finance
Alexis Wooster - Philosophy

Soccer
Asia Simons - Master of Accounting
Jaclyn Benjamin - Communication
Brook Parker - English/Psychology
Kelley Smith - Legal Studies

Swimming and Diving
Devlyn Quinn - Exercise Science

Women's Track and Field/Cross Country
Sarah Bumby - Anthropology/Environmental Studies
Angel Dooley - Exercise Science
Jelena Jurlina - Marketing/Management
Helmi Leppanen - Finance/Marketing
Lissie Mo - Management
Tahira Wiggins - Psychology