MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Twelve senior student-athletes have been elected into Wesleyan University's Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for Spring 2022 – the most prestigious academic honor society in the country. They will be honored at an induction ceremony on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 4 PM in the Memorial Chapel.
Phi Beta Kappa at Wesleyan is limited to 12 percent of the graduating class each year. To be elected, a student must first have been nominated by the department of his or her major, achieved a grade point average value of 93 or above, and has demonstrated curricular breadth by having met the General Education Expectations. Wesleyan's Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society was organized in 1845 and is the ninth oldest chapter in the country.
"We're thrilled to see the induction of 12 of our varsity student-athletes into Phi Beta Kappa," said Wesleyan Director of Athletics
Mike Whalen '83. "We're certainly proud of their work on the field but their excellence in the classroom is just another example of how our student-athletes excel in all phases of their Wesleyan experience."
Representing Wesleyan Athletics at this spring's induction are:
Sophie Henderson (women's tennis),
Dylan Judd (baseball),
Hannah Landel (women's soccer),
Zach Lieb (men's tennis),
Courtney Litts (women's soccer),
Griffin Maristany (men's track & field),
Audrey McMahon (women's ice hockey),
Julia Meehan (women's soccer),
Maddie Nagler (women's cross country / track & field),
Stevie O'Connor (men's ice hockey),
Aashni Parikh (women's squash) and
Scott Shield (baseball).
Henderson is an All-American doubles player for women's tennis while she sports a 3.94 GPA as a University major. Judd is a double major in chemistry and environmental studies (4.02 GPA) while his teammate on the baseball team Shield is a triple major in computer science, economics and mathematics with a 3.94 GPA. Landel (economics, government | 4.02 GPA), Litts (neuroscience & behavior, psychology | 3.95 GPA) and Meehan (economics | 4.00 GPA) all represent the women's soccer team, who made a thrilling run to the Final Four in the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance this past fall.
Lieb owns a 4.01 GPA as an economics major on the men's tennis team. Maristany double majors in economics and philosophy and owns a 3.97 GPA as a member of the men's track & field program. McMahon, who captained the women's ice hockey team this season, is a double major in biology and neuroscience & behavior with a 3.94 GPA.
Nagler is on the women's cross country and track & field programs while also a double major in film studies and psychology and sports a 3.96 GPA. O'Connor was a captain on the men's ice hockey team this season while owning a 3.95 GPA as a neuroscience & behavior major. Parikh was a welcome addition to the women's squash team this season, tying for the team-lead with 10 wins, while she owns a 3.96 GPA as a double major in biology, earth and environmental sciences.
