Fall 2014 ACES, A Team honored by dean

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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADE,Y, Colo. --  Nearly 80 Academy cadets were honored for their fall semester Academic achievements last month by Brig. Gen. Andrew Armacost, the dean of the faculty here.

The Dean's Aces reception is held each semester to recognize cadets with a 4.0 GPA in their academic and physical education courses.  In all, 78 cadets were recognized in the Jan. 28 ceremony at the Falcon Club.

Armacost also recognized the Academic A-Team, cadets with a 4.0 GPA only in academic courses. 

In all, two percent (77) of the 3,892 cadets here earned A-Team academic performance (including ACEs) and 0.6 percent (24) earned an overall 4.0 GPA in academic and physical education, placing them on the Dean's Aces list.

Among those ACEs honored, Cadet 1st Class Stephen Orians, Cadets 2nd Class
Aaron Mukoda and Joshua Bradley, and Cadet 3rd Class Evan Locke, achieved the
double-academic distinction (second academic Ace title).

Cadets 1st Class Ayesha Hein and Robert Larson achieved the honor for the third time.

Cadets 1st Class Ayesha Hein (volleyball) and Samuel Wieser (swimming), Cadet 2nd Class Gregory Franklin (football), Cadets 3rd Class Kyle Jameson (track and field) and Dominic Celiano (ice hockey), and Cadets 4th Class Erich Drollinger (diving) and Dylan Martin-Abood (Ice Hockey) maintained top academic honors while engaging in intercollegiate athletics.

Fall 2014 Aces
Cadets 1st Class Ayesha1Hein, Anthony  Hillesheim, Robert Larson, Connor Lee, James  Lydiard, Stephen Orians, Timothy Ryan and Samuel Wieser; Cadets 2nd Class Joshua Bradley, Mark Caldwell, Gregory Franklin, Veronica Morthorpe, Aaron Mukoda, Robert Olesen and Mitchell Willis; Cadets 3rd Class Dominic Celiano, Casey Evans, Evan Locke and Young Wu; and Cadets 4th Class Emanuel Beer, Erich Drollinger, Faisal Fogle, Todd Link, Dylan Martin-Abood and Kyle Jameson (Ace during Spring 2014).

Fall 2014 A-Team
Cadets 1st Class Katharine Albright, Stephen Beaton, Patrick Boyle, Rebecca Esselstein, Christian Ferrarini, Christian Polhemus, Zachary Funke, Erling German, Lydia Hill, Katharine Kessler, Wyatt Vander Voort and Alison Weiss; Cadets 2nd Class Ryann Anderson, Hamza El-Saawy, Lucas Guthrie, William  Hatton, Jeffrey Herrala, Adam Jackson, Colin Lane, Nicholas Liu, Stephanie Mallard, Colby  McGinley, Colby Richard, Alexander Olsen, Matthew Sprague, John Stanley and Dana  Sanelli; Cadets 3rd Class Nicholas Carpenter, William Davis, John Deaton, Brady Gartman, Jeremy Jacobellis, Nolan Peters and Joe Tan; and Cadets 4th Class Jackson Bednar, Timothy Brown, Anson Cheng, Charles Chimento, Noah Conrad, John Despard, Austin Gadient, Dane Hankamer, Jacob Hawkins, Benjamin Herrick, Benjamin Hook, Joseph Humphries, Courtney Kunselman, David Lee, Douglas Ludwig, Mira Marchioretto, Michael Rieker, Ryan Silva, Jaspreet Singh, William Vosejpka and Marshall Yale.

Editor's note: The Dean's Aces list was inspired by the late Brig. Gen Robert McDemott, the first dean of the faculty at the Academy. The general, for whom the Academy's McDermott Library is named, is often referred to as the "father of modern military education" for his contributions to the Academy's mission of educating and developing leaders of character.