13 FMU Student-Athletes Named to Chi Alpha Sigma Honor Society
FLORENCE, S.C. – Francis Marion University athletic officials recently announced the names of 13 Patriot student-athletes named to the university's chapter of Chi Alpha Sigma, the National College Athlete Honor Society.

To earn a place in this honor society, a student-athlete must be at least a junior, have a 3.40 cumulative grade point average on a 4.00 scale, and have an endorsement from his or her respective head coach. The nominees are then screened by a selection committee.

The inductees are baseball player Chris Hutto (Islandton, S.C.), women's volleyball player Jessica Bartlett (Richmond, Va.); women's basketball player Danielle Moore (Owings Mills, Md.); men's basketball player Erving "Vony" Rivers (Burton, S.C.), women's softball player Jamie Wiggins (Marion, S.C.); men's soccer players Mike Greenaway (Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada) and Jonathan Runion (Findlay, Ohio); men's cross country runner Patrick Hopewell (Malvern, Pa.), women's tennis player Jordon Gettys (Manning, S.C.), and women's soccer players Kate Anderson (Loveland, Ohio), Morgan Harwood (Hornell, N.Y.), Katie Riley (Hampstead, Md.), and Brittany Rothenbach (Bel Air, Md.).

Chi Alpha Sigma was founded in May 1996 by DePauw University head football coach Nick Mourouzis. The organization currently has 131 chapters in 34 states. Francis Marion is one of only six chapters in South Carolina, and FMU was the first school to have a chapter in the Palmetto State.

Over the past six years, 45 different FMU student-athletes have earned this honor.

Chi Alpha Sigma's purposes are: to encourage and reward high academic scholarship of college athletes at four-year accredited institutions; to recognize outstanding academic achievement by intercollegiate varsity letterwinners; to encourage good citizenship, moral character, and friendship among the high academic achievers in college athletics; to recognize and honor the individual athlete, his/her team, sport, athletic department, and college or university; and to mentor and to provide leadership to other athletes.
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