Francis Marion University athletic officials recently announced the names of 26 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 academically, have a 3.50 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 2025 inductees are baseball players Nick Boswell (Ruby, SC), Parker Henderson (Lexington, KY), Cooper McKee (Scottsdale, AZ), and Dariel Villaran Goundis (Simpsonville, SC); softball players Peyton Gale (Firestone, CO), Mikaela Goss (Fuquay-Varina, NC), Emily Konz (Lantana, FL), Anderson Thrower (Hanahan, SC), Jenna Walling (Johns Island, SC), and Madalyn White (Currie, NC); and acrobatics and tumbling athlete Alexandria Mitchell (Florence, SC).

Also, golfer Pake June (Florence, SC), men's soccer players David Guevara (Guayaquil, Ecuador) and Sebastian Ulloa-Acevedo (Palm City, FL), men's tennis player Niklas Plath (Albstadt, Germany), and women's tennis player Lian Timmermans (Nederweert, Netherlands).

Also, women's soccer players Izzy Ashley (Kannapolis, NC), Emily Casey (Charlotte, NC), Riley Reynolds (Delran, NJ), Kristina Syragakis (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada), and Selena Wimbish (Chula Vista, CA); and volleyball players Kayla Clayworth (Myrtle Beach, SC), Katie Floyd (Campbellsville, KY), Katie Kemp (Plano, TX), Caroline Lucas (Easley, SC), and Kara Walker (Fayetteville, NC).

Eight current Patriot student-athletes were previously inducted: baseball player Caleb Oakley (Mullins, SC); men's tennis players Martin Barbera (Morelia, Mexico); men's golfer Xavier Schwarz (Virginia Water, Surrey, England); men's soccer player Jhancarlo Palma (Caracas, Venezuela); and women's soccer players Linsey Downey (Little River, SC), JG Garon (Fort Mill, SC), Le'Landra Jarvis (Jackson, SC), and Haley Sink (Moseley, VA).
 
Chi Alpha Sigma was founded in May 1996 by then DePauw University head football coach Nick Mourouzis.  The organization currently has 499 chapters in 47 states and the District of Columbia.  Francis Marion is one of only eight chapters in South Carolina, and FMU was the first school to have a chapter in the Palmetto State.

Over the past 25 years, 303 different FMU student-athletes have earned this honor.

Chi Alpha Sigma is the first, and only, national scholar-athlete society to honor those four-year collegiate student-athletes who have excelled in both the classroom and in athletic competition.  The organization also recognizes that it is part of an athletics community made of diverse groups and its values statement reflects those to celebrate everyone in the community.  Chi Alpha Sigma continues to provide outstanding student-athletes with an opportunity to become connected within a fraternal association that aligns their educational and athletic successes for a lifetime.