A total of 136 UCLA graduating student-athletes and team members were honored as part of UCLA's Centennial Class at the Eighth Annual Student-Athlete Graduation Celebration in Pauley Pavilion on Thursday, June 13. Among the participants were student-athletes who graduated in the Winter 2019 and Spring 2019 quarters, as well as those who are projected to graduate in Summer 2019 and Fall 2019.
Rower Lanea Tuiasosopo and track & Field's Dotun Ogundeji were selected as class speakers.
(Watch Tuiasosopo's speech | Watch Ogundeji's speech)
Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarships in the amount of $9,000 were presented to Track & Field's Elleyse Garrett and men's water polo alumnus and current UCLA medical school student Danny McClintick. Beach volleyball's Izzy Carey and men's volleyball's Micah Ma'a were announced as the Pac-12's Tom Hansen Conference Medal winners, which goes annually to each member institution's outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership. Additionally, Tuiasosopo and men's soccer player Tobias Henneke were presented as the UCLA Scholar-Athletes of the Year.
The second graduating class of the Wooden Academy Champions program was also honored. The Wooden Academy Champions program is a two-year comprehensive program that focuses on leadership, personal and professional development. The 2019 graduates of the program are Idrees Bernard (track & field), Saskia Budgett (rowing), Kyra Edwards (rowing), Elena Escales (swimming & diving), Robert Knights (men's soccer), Caroline McTaggert (swimming & diving), Lanea Tuiasosopo (rowing), and Allison Wieseler (women's water polo).
Congratulations to the Class of 2019:
Baseball
Brian Gadsby
Nathan Hadley
Jake Hirabayashi
Justin Hooper
Kyle Molnar
Jake Pries
Nick Valaika
Men's Basketball
Prince Ali
Robert Bartelt
Alex Olesinski
Thomas Walden
Women's Basketball
Kennedy Burke
Beach Volleyball
Izzy Carey
Megan McNamara
Nicole McNamara
Zana Muno
Sarah Sponcil
Football
Je'Vari Anderson
Krys Barnes
Johnny Den Bleyker
Deon Hollins
Darnay Holmes
Theo Howard
Stephen Johnson III
Austin Kent
Chigozie Nnoruka
Bolu Olorunfunmi
Audie Omotosho
Brandon Stephens
Andrew Strauch
Tyree Thompson
Lokeni Toailoa
Josh Wariboko-Alali
Men's Golf
Philip Delisi
Jack Ireland
Cole Madey
Patrick Murphy
Women's Golf
Lilia Vu
Beth Wu
Gymnastics
Matteah Brow
Brielle Nguyen
Katelyn Ohashi
Madison Preston
Rowing
Saskia Budgett
Libby Costello
Kyra Edwards
Clare Fina
Lucy Jepson
Lauren O'Donohue
Erin O'Donohue
Natalie Puente
Megan Slabbert
Jillian Solberg
Gray Strandberg
Sophie Sutton
Lanea Tuiasosopo
Carlisle Wheeler
Men's Soccer
Tobias Henneke
Robert Knights
Roman Martin
Blayne Martinez
Cole Martinez
Kike Poleo
Matthew Powell
Joab Santoyo
Women's Soccer
Chloe Castaneda
Julia Hernandez
Kaiya McCullough
Teagan Micah
Anika Rodriguez
Dani Satterwhite
Meghan Scudero
Maki Umehara
Softball
Danae Blodgett
Emma Godin
Paige Halstead
Taylor Pack
Zoe Shaw
Madeline Skibitzki
Brianna Tautalafua
Stevie Wisz
Swimming & Diving
Éloïse Bélanger
Elena Escalas
Sabrina Kwok
Caroline McTaggart
Maria Polyakova
Madeline Russell
Emma Schanz
Traci Shiver
Sandra Soe
Women's Tennis
Gabby Andrews
Alaina Miller
Men's Track & Field
CJ Alumbres
Zack Bornstein
Michael Burke
Idrees Bernard
Joe Herrera
Damion Marshall
Dotun Ogundeji
Justin Stafford
AK Turner
Kai Wong
Women's Track & Field
Dominique Beltrez
Christina Chenault
Elleyse Garrett
Chloe Jenkins
Melissa Maneatis
Madison Moore
Schuyler Moore
Jasmine Stauffacher-Gray
Taylor Taite
Men's Volleyball
Jonah Kay
Micah Ma'a
Dylan Missry
Spencer Sachs
Women's Volleyball
Madeleine Gates
Kyra Rogers
Men's Water Polo
Eric Goldenberg
Michael Hull
Raphael Raede
Alex Roelse
Jonathan Van De Velde
James Vlachonassios
Alex Wolf
Women's Water Polo
Kelsey Blacker
Donya Dehnad
Louise Hazell
Carlee Kapana
Grace Reego
Lizette Rozeboom
Sarah Sheldon
Rachel Whitelegge
Allison Wieseler
Meghan Wright