GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNCG athletic department had five student-athletes inducted into the UNC Greensboro (UNCG) Golden Chain Honor Society recently.
 
To be eligible, students must maintain a 3.25 GPA as a junior or senior and will be evaluated with respect to the seven qualities that are the seven links of the Chain: leadership, scholarship, service, judgment, tolerance, magnanimity and character.
 
Entering the Golden Chain Honor Society in the spring 2022 class were Ashley Gontram (softball), Elayne Grisbee (volleyball), Jared Mathewson (baseball), Kross Robinson (baseball), and Zack Swanson (men's golf).
 
Golden Chain is singular and unique to the UNCG campus. Golden Chain was organized to recognize students who have made significant and meaningful contributions to the University community. From the beginning, the students inducted have been those who served the University and their fellow students in quiet as well as prominent ways.
 
The tradition of Golden Chain is of special importance to the University. To preserve and nurture it for today and the future is the privileged responsibility of each member of the Golden Chain Honor Society.
 
The name was chosen deliberately. "Golden" denotes excellence and rarity. "Chain" signifies linkage – a binding together of past generations of students who served that University and the organization with the present students and with generations to come.