General | 7/10/2025 2:35:00 PM
Oberlin, Ohio - Nine members of Oberlin College's varsity athletics teams have been selected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's oldest and most prestigious academic honor society.
Since 1907, Oberlin has been inducting students into Zeta of Ohio, the College's Phi Beta Kappa chapter. This year's scholar-athlete inductees – Justin Bader, Sam Fechner, Elinor Frost, Avery Johnson, Izzy Pfaff, Ethan Price, Izzy Sunday, Nathan Thompson, and Josh Woznicki – will be joining an elite membership club that includes 17 U.S. Presidents, 42 Supreme Court justices, more than 150 Nobel laureates, and Oberlin's own, President Carmen Twillie Ambar.
Oberlin Athletics' new members come from a wide range of academic backgrounds. Bader, a four-year athlete on men's lacrosse, majored in Biology; Fechner, a sprinter on the men's track and field team, was an Honors student in Economics; Frost was a captain of the women's swim and dive team while studying Computer Science and Sociology; Johnson, a teammate of Frost's on women's swim and dive, graduated this spring with a BA in Geosciences; Pfaff, the third member of women's swim and dive to be selected to the society this year, majored in Mathematics; Price, a student-athlete who transitioned into an assistant coaching role for the football team, received his bachelor's degree in biochemistry; a double major in Studio Art and Psychology, Sunday finished her career this spring as an attacker on women's lacrosse; Thompson, a two-year captain on the soccer team, has accrued a 4.12 GPA while majoring in Financial Economics in his first three years at Oberlin; and a linebacker on the football team, Woznicki earned high honors in Physics.
Phi Beta Kappa celebrates liberal arts education as the backbone of wisdom and stands for Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης, which means "the love of wisdom is the guide of life." The society has chapters at only ten percent of American colleges and universities, and just seven to ten percent of students at these institutions are invited to join.
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