Another banner academic year
6/23/2011 2:13:00 PM | Athletics
The more than 400 student-athletes who represent the university in 17 intercollegiate sports combined for overall grade point averages (GPA) of 2.88 during the fall semester and 2.89 in the spring.
The performance brings the number of consecutive semesters with a 2.8 or higher athletic GPAs to 10. Five sports teams (women's golf, tennis, volleyball, soccer and bowling) each produced GPAs of 3.00 or higher. A total of 33 athletes posted perfect 4.00 individual GPAs in either one or both semesters.
Twenty-three Bearkats were honored as Academic All-Southland Conference selections. Six Sam Houston student-athletes received either national or regional All-Academic recognition and 132 Kats were named as members of the Southland Conference Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll.
"We are extremely proud of our athlete's achievements in the classroom and commend our coaching staff for the tremendous job they do in recruiting quality students," Bearkat director of athletics Bobby Williams said. "The number one goal for each of our sports teams is to have our athletes earn their Sam Houston degrees."
Josten Crow and Lance Pevehouse (men's basketball); Jenny Pence and Nichole Watkins (soccer); Chris Cralle (track and field) and Dayna Galganski and Lisa MacAllister (women's bowling) highlighted the year winning major academic honors.
Crow and Pevehouse were named as two of the five men's basketball players from NCAA Division I universities in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi to be recognized as members of the CoSIDA/Capital One Academic All-District team.
Pence and Watkins were among the 33 student-athletes selected to the National Soccer College Coaches Association of America University Women Scholar All-South honor squad. The NSCCA South Region consists of NCAA Division I teams from Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina.
Cralle became the first student-athlete in league history to sweep both the indoor and outdoor men's track "Student-Athlete of the Year" honors. His selection brings the number of Bearkats to earn the prestigious honor to 11 since 2007.
Galganski and MacAllister were named to the National Ten Pins Coaches Association (NTCA) All-Academic honor squad.
Sam Houston Academic All-Southland Conference honorees included Chris Andreas, Brandon Kimbrel and Ryan Mooney (baseball); Josten Crow and Lance Pevehouse (men's basketball); Britni Martin and Sequeena Thomas (women's basketball); Brandon Closner, Randy Stewart and Travis Watson (football); Shelby Hardy (women's golf); Amanda Biega and Jenny Pence (soocer); Tori Benavidez and Tomi Garrison (softball); Chris Cralle, Henry Jordan and Jason Russell (men's track and field); Morgan Davis, Alyssa Dooley and Jessica Fisher (women's track and field) and Kaylee Hawkins and Kym Loving (volleyball).
Crow and Pevehouse were announced as the outstanding student-athletes for SHSU men's sports during the 2010-11 school year while Pence took the honor for SHSU women's sports
2010-11 SOUTHLAND COMMISSIONER'S ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL
| BASEBALL Chris Andreas* Jacob Arrington Tyler Fiebrich John Hale. Michael Hilliard Brandon Kimbrel* Ryan Mooney* Greg Olson Doug Oney David Powers Matt Shelton Paul Spinn Matthew Walker Jordan Westra BASKETBALL (MEN) BASKETBALL (WOMEN) FOOTBALL |
Tyler Sweatt Darnell Taylor Michael Wade Travis Watson* Torrance Williams Colin Williamson Shane Young GOLF (MEN) GOLF (WOMEN) SOCCER SOFTBALL TENNIS |
TRACK (MEN) Clint Anders Joseph Anderson Cutter Bernhard Brek Christensen Chris Cralle* Darryl Hayes James Jones Henry Jordan* Travis Kocurek Patrick Krol Julius Michael Logan Miller Roger Ruelweler Jason Russell* TRACK (WOMEN) VOLLEYBALL *Academic All-Southland |
