PEMBROKE – A total of 19 current and former student-athletes received their bachelor's degrees at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke's winter commencement exercises on Saturday in Pembroke. Two other former student-athletes – baseball's
Collins Cuthrell and track & field's
Morgan Sheehan – were hooded on Friday evening inside the Givens Performing Arts Center as part of UNCP's graduate school ceremony.
Many of those student-athletes were on hand to take part in the athletics department's bi-annual Student-Athlete Graduation Breakfast on Saturday morning inside UNC Pembroke's University Center. Head coaches, along with select members of UNCP's athletics administration, presented the graduation candidates with stoles to commemorate their time as a student-athlete for the Black & Gold.
Three members of UNCP's coaching staff and administration – basketball assistant coaches
Donald Bohannon and
Tony Jones, as well as assistant director of marketing & promotions
Lamar Courmon – also received degrees this weekend as well.
