The Chattanooga Mocs celebrated one of its largest graduating classes with 48 current and former student-athletes earned graduate and undergraduate degrees this weekend. Athletic programs across the board were well represented at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's 261^st Commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday in McKenzie Arena.

This year's group included:
- 11 who earned Master's Degrees
- 16 who graduated with honors
- 12 who earned All-Southern Conference recognition during their careers
- 16 who won at least one SoCon title during their careers.

Highlighted among the honors graduates are Simon Labbe (Management) and Avery Catlett (Psychology).  Labbe was an All-SoCon member of the men's tennis team who helped UTC secure its first-ever regular season SoCon Championship in April. Catlett accomplished the same feat with the soccer team in the fall.

Other SoCon champions who graduated with honors include women's basketball's Audrey Canter (SORT Management) and soccer's AK Anderson (Exercise Science), Grace Klippenstein (Mechanical Engineering) and Sydney Weinstein (Criminal Justice).

Other standouts who graduated this weekend included recent Las Vegas Raider signee McClendon Curtis who earned his Master's degree in Education, 2022 SoCon Football Defensive Player of the Year Jay Person and 2022 football All-American Ailym Ford who earned their degrees in SORT Management and 2022 SoCon Women's Golf Champion Dorota Zalweska who finished her degree in Exercise Science.  

Be sure to check out the attached photo gallery from the graduation ceremonies. Also included are shots from the Athletics Sashing Ceremony that recognized all of our recent grads. 

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Men's Basketball
A.J. Caldwell – Master's of Business Administration
KC Hankton – SORT Management
Jamal Johnson* – Master's of Education
Grant Ledford – Management
Ashton Smith – SORT Management

Women's Basketball
Audrey Canter – SORT Management – Latin Honors Candidate
Abbey Cornelius* – Master's of Business Administration
Amaria Pugh – Exercise Science

Cross Country/Track & Field
Jonathan Boyd – Master's of Electrical Engineering
Faith Brown – Biochemistry – Latin Honors Candidate
Imani Bryant – Psychology – Latin Honors Candidate
Sydney Cansler – Creative Writing
Lesley Green – Management – Latin Honors Candidate
Rebekah (Wich) Jenkins ('21) – Master's of Public Administration
Morgan Ouellette – Psychology – Latin Honors Candidate

Football
Tyron Arnett – Master's of Public Health
Alec Boruff – Marketing – Latin Honors Candidate
Ben Brewton – Criminal Justice
McClendon Curtis – Master's of Education
Ailym Ford – SORT Management
Ty Gossett – Finance – Latin Honors Candidate
Preston Hutchinson – Master's of Business Administration
Cameron Perry – Engineering Technology Management
Jay Person – SORT Management
Telly Plummer – Communications
John Prince – Computer Science
Kerrington Wilson ('18) – Master's of Data Analytics
Romeo Wykle – SORT Management

Women's Golf
Dorota Zalewska – Exercise Science

Soccer
AK Anderson – Exercise Science – Latin Honors Candidate
Avery Catlett – Psychology – Latin Honors Candidate
Adryan Darnell – Exercise Science
Cameron Giles – Marketing
Grace Klippenstein – Mechanical Engineering – Latin Honors Candidate
Kendra Mueller – SORT Management
Sydney Weinstein – Criminal Justice – Latin Honors Candidate

Men's Tennis
Kerim Hyatt – Exercise Science
Simon Labbe – Management – Latin Honors Candidate
Jacob Marshall ('22) – Master's of Business Administration

Women's Tennis
Callie Billman – Graphic Design
Lucia Garrigues-Melendez* – Management
Emma Van Hee ('22) – Master's of Data Analytics
Jessie Young – Exercise Science – Latin Honors Candidate

Volleyball
Makenzie Jordan – Child & Family Studies – Latin Honors Candidate

Wrestling
Logan Andrew – Construction Management
Tom Sell* – Applied Science
Franco Valdes* - Exercise & Health Studies – Latin Honors Candidate
Weston Wichman – Exercise Science – Latin Honors Candidate

*Denotes Summer 2023 Graduate