DeKALB, Ill. – Fifty-three Northern Illinois University student-athletes representing 15 of the Huskies' 17 sports programs were added to the ranks of Huskie alumni this past weekend as NIU held spring commencement ceremonies at the Convocation Center.
 
"Without question, graduation is one of my favorite days of the year," said NIU Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier, who attended several of Saturday's undergraduate ceremonies where he was able to personally greet many of the Huskies' student-athlete graduates. "As administrators, coaches and staff, graduation is the fulfillment of a promise we make to these student-athletes during the recruiting process, and evidence of our continuing commitment to each of them."
 
The newest Huskie grads include 15 members of the 2018 MAC Championship football team and four MAC Champion gymnasts, while the softball and men's soccer teams also had four graduates each. Of NIU's 16 total football graduates (including 2017 senior Joe Sanders), seven will return to play for the Huskies in 2019. Overall, 11 Huskies slated to return in 2019-20 – like women's basketball players Courtney Woods and Ally May, and track and field All-American Jehvania Whyte - earned their degrees this spring.  
 
The Huskie football graduates also included tight end Ty Harmston, who completed his master's degree in human anatomical sciences after five years with the program.  
 
Huskie student-athlete graduates represented five colleges and 25 different majors. There were 21 Liberal Arts & Sciences grads and 15 from the College of Business.  In addition, 11 student-athletes earned bachelor's degrees from the College of Health and Human Sciences, three from the College of Education and three from Engineering and Engineering Technology. 
 
Several more Huskie student-athletes, including three from men's basketball, are on track to earn their NIU degrees this summer and were able to participate in the spring commencement ceremonies.

 
Baseball (3)
William Anderson, Accountancy
Ty Jandrowski, Organizational & Corporate Communications
^ Joe Jumonville, Industrial Management & Technology
 
Women's Basketball (3)
* Ally May, Nursing
Mikayla Voigt, Nursing
* Courtney Woods, Health Sciences – Pre-Physical Therapy
 
Football (16)
Dale Brown, Hospitality and Tourism Management
D.J. Brown, Marketing
Drequan Brown, General Emphasis
* Adam Buirge, Leadership and Management
* Daniel Crawford, Enterprise Software
* Trayshon Foster, Organizational & Corporate Communications
Ty Harmston, Human Anatomical Sciences – Master's Degree
Vincent Hughes, Kinesiology
* Marcus Jones, General Emphasis
* Antonio Jones-Davis, Communications
Mylan Reeves, Political Science
Ryan Roberts, Industrial & Systems Engineering
^ Joe Sanders, General Emphasis
* Spencer Tears, Media Studies
Devin Webster, General Emphasis
* Quintin Wynne, Biological Sciences
 
Men's Golf (3)
Matt Cholod, Marketing
Thomas DeMarco, Finance
Salvador Rocha, Entrepeneurship and Social Responsibility
 
Women's Golf (2)
Kelly Anderson, Communicative Disorders
Brielle Ward, Psychology AND Philosophy
 
Gymnastics (4)
Emily Basara, Journalism
Ally Ferber, Biological Sciences
Anna Martucci, Marketing
Paige Nicholas, Psychology
 
Men's Soccer (4)
Noah Brodie, Organizational & Corporate Communications
Adrian Coardos, Business Administration
* Konrad Dziedzic, Kinesiology
Max Voss, Business Administration
 
Women's Soccer (3)
Emilie Furuseth Haugan, Business Administration
MacKenzie Lee, Special Education
Taylor Sarver, Rehabilitation and Disability Services
 
Softball (4)
Abby Howlett, Accountancy
Katie Lamich, Communicative Disorders
Sam Schmidt, Marketing
Jenny Van Geertry, Rehabilitation and Disability Services
 
Men's Tennis (2)
Eric Marbach, Accountancy
Erich Schuette, Biological Sciences
 
Women's Tennis (1)
^ Evelyn Youel, Mathematics Education
 
Women's Track & Field (2)
^ Abriana Pettigrew, Nursing
* Jehvania Whyte, Organizational & Corporate Communications
 
Volleyball (3)
Autumn Martin, Nutrition, Dietetics and Wellness
Chrystal McAlpin, Leadership and Management AND Marketing
Meg Wolowicz, Rehabilitation and Disability Services
 
Wrestling (3)
Bryce Gorman, Organizational & Corporate Communications
Alijah Jeffery, Organizational & Corporate Communications
Andrew Scott, Electrical Engineering Technology
 
^ 2017-2018 Senior
*  Returning to NIU in 2019-20