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Tennessee Vols have 54 first-year SEC honor roll athletes

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fan flies the state flag over the school flag prior to the game between against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fan flies the state flag over the school flag prior to the game between against the Nebraska Cornhuskers at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Jim Brown-USA TODAY Sports /
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The 2016-2017 first-year SEC Academic Honor Roll list was announced this week, and the Tennessee Vols had 54 athletes on there.

The Tennessee Vols underperformed the average on the SEC Academic Honor Roll lists for the Fall, Winter, and Spring sessions.

And once again, they were below average on another SEC Academic Honor Roll list. This one was the First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll members for the 2016-2017 year as a whole.

There were 54 Tennessee Vols make the list. But out of 902 student athletes on there overall, Tennessee was more than 10 people below the average per school in the SEC.

You can see the full list by clicking here.

The Vols ninth in the SEC on this list behind the Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kentucky Wildcats, South Carolina Gamecocks, and Vanderbilt Commodores.

They were ahead of the Missouri Tigers, Texas A&M Aggies, LSU Tigers, Ole Miss Rebels, and Mississippi State Bulldogs.

Notable Tennessee Vols names on the list include Jarrett Guarantano, Jordan Bone, Lew Evans, Brandon Johnson, Marcus Tatum and Schaquilla Nunn.

To be fair, these numbers aren’t fully reflective of the school. After all, Vanderbilt even had below the average number of SEC First Year Academic Honor Roll members.

But it’s not the best look for the Tennessee Vols to be below average across the board.

Still, congratulations to the ones that did make the list. Getting a 3.0 GPA can be hard enough without playing sports in college. Doing it while playing a sport only makes it harder.

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