The University of Oregon's prestigious Dean's List for fall term 2016 included 23 students who compete in intercollegiate athletics.Making the Dean's List, compiled quarterly, requires that an undergraduate achieve a term grade-point average of 3.75 or better while completing at least 15 credits, 12 of which must be graded."Congratulations to these exemplary students on their achievements in the classroom – we are proud of your efforts," UO athletic directorsaid. "Their achievements represent the highest priority of the student-athlete experience at the University of Oregon."Among the 23 Dean's List members from the athletic department this past fall were several whose sports were in-season. They include soccer players Marissa Everett, Malika Markham and Nicole Seaman; women's golfers Daniele Giles, Petra Salko and Kathleen Scavo; football player Taylor Alie and cross country runner Travis Neuman. In addition, Lauren Yearwood began her women's basketball season during the quarter.The other honorees included baseball player Braden Stutzman; Thomas Laurent from men's tennis; acrobatics and tumbling athletes Natalie Jaynes, Caroline Matos and Sabrina Peyton; softball players Megan Kleist and Jenna Lilley; Rennie Kendrick from track and field; and lacrosse players Kathryn Blumhardt, Mariah Gatti, Natalie Modly, Isabella Pyne, Erin Schilmoeller and Shannon Williams."An honor of this magnitude is well deserved and should be publicly recognized, celebrated and shared," said, a former UO football player who is now associate director of Oregon's Services for Student-Athletes. "Services for Student-Athletes and the athletic department take pride in celebrating and acknowledging student-athlete accomplishments off their fields of play as well as on. The Dean's List members demonstrate a commitment to academics while balancing the demands of their sport, a challenge that only increases during their season of competition."Moore said the athletic department's representation on the Dean's List easily could have been more robust. There were another 41 student-athletes who achieved a 3.75 GPA but didn't have enough credits to qualify, including nine who were a single credit short of making the Dean's List.In all, 24 percent of enrolled student-athletes this past fall earned a GPA of 3.5 or higher, and 54 percent earned a 3.0 or higher.