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Four earn GCAC Honor Roll

Four LSUS student athletes – a men’s basketball player and three members of the Pilots’ baseball team – qualified for the 2003-04 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Honor Roll, according to Dr. Terry G. Harris, associate professor of English and chair of the LSUS Athletic Council.

“To qualify,” Harris said, “a student must be at least a sophomore, be enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours each semester and have a Cumulative Grade-Point Average of 3.0 or higher. The student athlete also needs to have played during the season, in other words, no red-shirt team members.”

Legg

Frye

Cox

Bissonette

The four LSUS players who qualified are basketball player Royce Legg, a sophomore guard from Tyler, Texas; and three baseball players, sophomore outfielder Chris Frye, from Minden; junior outfielder Chase Cox, from Bastrop, and sophomore infielder Dustin Bissonette, from Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.

The Athletic Council chair commented that seven other freshman players – four from women’s basketball and three from baseball – “had GPAs that were high enough to qualify, but the GCAC Honor Roll is for sophomores and higher.”

Harris, himself an accomplished athlete who has competed in more than a dozen Boston Marathons, added that “one red-shirt baseball player met the criteria but because he is a red-shirt player he cannot be included, and three other players – two in baseball and one in men’s basketball – just missed qualifying by .01 to .04 of a point.”