RSSBot
News Junkie
BOULDER — A record 26 student-athletes with perfect 4.00 grade point averages last year and a host of others were honored for a variety of outstanding academic accomplishments Tuesday morning at the school's 26th Annual Student-Athlete Academic Recognition Banquet.
"
BOULDER — A record 26 student-athletes with perfect 4.00 grade point averages last year and a host of others were honored for a variety of outstanding academic accomplishments Tuesday morning at the school's 26th Annual Student-Athlete Academic Recognition Banquet.
Another full house attended the event in the Touchdown Club room in the Dal Ward Athletic Center, as over 300 people celebrated the outstanding academic accomplishments of nearly four dozen individuals and several teams.
There were two recipients of the Clancy A. Herbst, Jr., Student-Athlete Achievement Award, junior Nancy Best(soccer) and freshman Evan Battey (basketball), as the award is given to athletes who overcome personal, academic and/or emotional challenges difficulties to succeed both academically and athletically.
...
Four students were presented with the Morgan Family Buff Club Scholar-Athlete Award, as the recipients include a member of the sophomore and junior classes and male and female members from the senior class who have accumulated the highest cumulative grade point average in their respective class (and are awarded by academic year, not eligibility class). The winners were (note three of have double majors):
- Caleb Penner, Soph., Track & Field (3.967 GPA, Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics)
- Bri Schwartz, Jr., Cross Country & Track (3.951 GPA, Journalism and Strategic Communications)
- Petter Reistad, Sr., Skiing (3.956 GPA, Business-Finance)
- Michaela Wenning, Sr., Track & Field (3.977 GPA, Chemical & Biological Engineering and Biochemistry)
Academic team winners for grade point average were the women's cross country team for the fifth straight year (and the 14th time in 26 years) for a sport with its championship in the fall semester (3.368) and the women's ski team, also the fifth time in a row (and 13th time overall) for those who compete in the spring semester (3.482). The men's golf team was honored for the most improved honor for a team, as its cumulative GPA rose an impressive .283 (from 2.908 to 3.191) from the end of the 2016 fall semester to the end of the 2017 fall session.
The Leadership Through Service Award was presented to the football team. For the past few years, the entire team has participated in a service activity in the spring, splitting into their family groups and working with different organizations in the local community. Those last year included Community Food Share, Broomfield FISH (food pantry), Kohl Elementary (visiting with students to talk about literacy, the importance of reading and doing their best in school), There With Care (for families and children facing critical illness), Morning Star Senior Living, Read with the Buffs and the Frank Shorter Race for Kids Health. In addition, since 2013, the football team participates in an annual Be the Match Bone Marrow Registry Drive of which eight matches on campus have been made.
...
In the 2017 calendar year, there were 26 student-athletes who studied to perfection, as in 4.00 grade point averages for at least one semester if not the full year; that bested by two the old record of 24 set in 2014 and again last year. All were thus inducted into CU's 4.0 club; membership now stands at 369 since 1994. Those honored included Wenning for the fourth straight year, Schwartz for the third consecutive year and Reistad for the first time, with that trio joined by:
Wilson Belk (majoring in Integrated Physiology) and Jeremy Paul (Business Management), golf; Kaitlyn Benner(Chemical & Biological Engineering), Sage Hurta (Chemical & Biological Engineering and Applied Mathematics), David Merkel (International Affairs and Economics), Caleb Penner (Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics), Ben Saarel (Engineering Physics), and Valerie Welch (Mechanical Engineering), all from track & field; Eliza Cahill(Business Management) and Holly Sutherland (Accounting), lacrosse; from football, Tim Coleman (Ethnic Studies), Afolabi Laguda (Economics) and Derek McCartney (Master's program in Integrative Physiology); Hannah Cardenas (Integrated Physiology and Psychology), Courtney Fedor (Integrated Physiology), Elisabeth Geraghty(Integrated Physiology), Madison Hall (Management & Marketing), Kenzie Tillitt (Architecture) and Jalen Tompkins(Psychology), all from soccer; Nora Grieg Christensen (Architectural Engineering) and Tonje Trulsrud(Architectural Engineering) from skiing; Lauren Huggins (Ethnic Studies), basketball; and Kyra Wojcik (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), tennis.
...
There were four recipients of the Byron R. White Leadership and Initiative Award, given to those student-athletes who have exhibited outstanding initiative and demonstrates a strong commitment to service to the CU and Boulder communities. Those winners were D'Shawn Schwartz (freshman, men's basketball, Business major); Eriana Henderson (sophomore, track & field, Psychology/Sociology major); Naghede Abu (junior, volleyball, Finance/Accounting major); and Kiara McKibben (senior, volleyball; Business Management major). The four were selected among 18 nominees from across all sports.
...
"
Continue reading...
Last edited by a moderator:
