COLUMBIA, S.C. – University of South Carolina Athletics announced today the recipients of 27 endowed scholarships across seven sports and the cheer team. Recipients for endowed scholarships are selected each year by the team’s head coach or department head.
The 2025-26 recipients of endowed scholarships are:
Baseball
The Curtis H. and Lisa B. Dickerson Endowed Baseball Scholarship – KJ Scobey
The Ken Rosefield Family Endowed Scholarship – Beau Hollins
The Charles and Katherine Wilson Endowed Scholarship – Jake McCoy
The Elizabeth A. Phibbs Endowed Baseball Scholarship – Riley Goodman
The Mike Addy Family Endowed Scholarship – Will Craddock
The Jane and Randy Senn Endowed Scholarship – Talmadge LeCroy
The Williams-Brice-Edwards Charitable Trust Endowed Scholarship – Amp Phillips
The Tommy Moody Baseball Endowed Scholarship – Jack Reynolds
The Lindell Bradley Baseball Scholarship – Elijah Foster
The Ryan Fischer Endowed Scholarship – Zach Manning
Men’s Basketball
The Mac Credille Men’s Basketball Manager Endowed Scholarship – Cooper Keyes
Women’s Basketball
The Aleighsa Welch Endowed Scholarship – Adhel Tac
The A’ja Wilson Endowed Scholarship – Ta’Niya Latson
Football
The Woods Family Endowed Scholarship – Donovan Murph
The Tommy Suggs Endowed Quarterback Scholarship – LaNorris Sellers
The Wraellen and Larry Winn Endowed Scholarship – Maurice Brown
The Ed Pitts Defensive Tackle Endowed Scholarship – Nick Barrett
The Mozingo Family Endowed Football Scholarship – Oscar Adaway
The Jake Panus Walk-On Football Endowed Scholarship – Bradley Dunn
The Marcus Lattimore Endowed Scholarship – Buddy Mack
The Bennett Barnhill Endowed Scholarship – Brady Hunt
Women’s Golf
The Kenneth T. Lytle Endowed Scholarship – Mia Sandtorv Lussand
Men’s Soccer
The John P. Salamone Memorial Endowed Scholarship – Kieran Karp
The Mark Berson Endowed Scholarship – Gabe Nickerson
Track and Field
The Schreiber Family Endowed Scholarship – Devan Crumpton
Cheer
The Justin Edward Cannon Scholarship – Mackenzie Buffo, Rylee Kirkland, Blair Wescoe, Gwen Grondin, Laurel Bixler, Kelly Marler
The Jamey Elizabeth Collins Scholarship – Holley Doyle, Anna Ruff, Madison Dantzler, Jordan Jones, Summer Dubreuil, Ella Perry, Ansley Wise, Abby Weissert, Lauryn Fuller
From the baseball team, sophomore KJ Scobey started 56 games last season, finishing second on the team with eight home runs and 27 RBI. First baseman Beau Hollins enters his sophomore season after hitting .308 with nine doubles and six home runs in his 46 games played. Junior pitcher Jake McCoy started 14 games in 2025 with 77 strikeouts in 60 innings pitched, lifting his career numbers to 26 appearances and 97 strikeouts. Riley Goodman missed the 2025 season with an injury after an All-State high school career. Freshman Will Craddock joined the Gamecocks after earning Region 5A-Divison 2 Player of the Year status in high school. Talmadge LeCroy is set for his fifth season at Carolina with a career that includes 156 games and a spot on the NCAA All-Columbia Regional Team in 2023. A transfer from USC Upstate, pitcher Amp Phillips went 7-2 with a 3.64 ERA for the Spartans last season. Redshirt junior Jack Reynolds joined the Gamecocks this summer after two seasons at Gulf Coast State College (Fla.) where he hit .369 with eight home runs in 2025. Transfer pitcher Elijah Foster went 5-3 with 76 strikeouts last season at Sacred Heart University. Fourth-year manager Zach Manning is a sport management major from Springfield, Va.
Cooper Keyes is a Dean’s List student from Harrisonburg, Va., majoring in business management and marketing. He enters his fourth year as a mean’s basketball manager this season.
Women’s basketball sophomore forward Adhel Tack played in 22 games last season, including eight against ranked opponents and 11 SEC contests, to help the team to SEC regular-season and tournament championships and a spot in the national championship game. Senior transfer guard Ta’Niya Latson joins the Gamecock this season after leading the nation in scoring last year at Florida State, where she earned All-America Honorable Mention status and First-Team All-ACC honors every year of her career.
For football, Donovan Murph graduated from high school a year early to join the Gamecocks, and the talented wide receiver is a cousin of former Gamecock Alshon Jeffery. Heisman Award candidate LaNorris Sellers was the 2024 National Freshman Offensive Player of the Year, a Freshman All-American, and a Third-Team All-SEC selection by the league’s 16 coaches. After walking on in 2023, Maurice Brown II worked his way into regular action on special teams and enters his junior year after earning the Gamecock Toughness Award for the offense in Spring 2025. Nick Barrett is a redshirt senior providing veteran leadership in the middle of the Gamecocks’ defensive line in addition to being a regular on the SEC Academic Honor Roll and a member of the 2025 Hampshire Honor Society. Running back Oscar Adaway III is set for his second season with the Gamecocks and is the Chair of the 2025-26 SEC Football Leadership Council. Bradley Dunn is pursuing a graduate degree in his sixth season with the Gamecocks. Graduate student Buddy Mack III is back for a second season at South Carolina after being named the 2025 Jim Carlen Special Teams Player of the Spring. Tight end Brady Hunt is also in his second season with the Gamecocks, earning the 2025 President’s Outstanding Student-Athlete Award.
Women’s golf senior Mia Sandtorv Lussand brings a 74.52 career scoring average and eight top-20 finishes in her 23 career events into her final season with the Gamecocks. A Second-Team All-SEC selection in 2024, she was a key part of the lineup on a pair of NCAA Championship teams in 2023 and 2024, helping the Gamecocks advance to match play for the first time since 2016. The Bergen, Norway, native is also a two-time WGCA Scholar All-American.
For men’s soccer, sophomore Kieran Karp appeared in 13 matches as a freshman and earned a spot on the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll. Forward Gabe Nickerson started six matches in 2024 before an injury cut his season short, but not before netting his first career goal against rival Clemson.
Track and field sophomore Devan Crumpton competed in 16 combined meets during his freshman season, earning SEC Indoor Third-Team All-SEC. In his 2024-25 campaign, he recorded fie new Top 10 program marks, including as a member of the fastest indoor distance medley relay team in program history with a time of 9:27.14.
For more information on endowing a scholarship, please contact Tyson Lusk, Chief Development Officer/Senior Associate Athletics Director, at 803-777-7546.
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