Fall Semester Grades

The fall semester grades have been reported and to say the least, I am quite pleased with the results.  As I keep noting here at "the lines are still good", we stress performance in the classroom at Concordia as we are not just a program of athletes but rather, student athletes.

The women's team recorded an excellent team GPA of 3.53.  We have become accustomed to seeing this tremendous achievement from the women but this is still an incredible overall average and certainly noteworthy.   Individually, we had five on the roster achieve a perfect 4.0 for the semester.  Join me in congratulating Yuliya Plevako, Camilla Xavier, Ana Mendes, Nicole Stuhr and Estelle Fougeray for their dedication and accomplishment.

Fresh off of their 2011-2012 ITA All-Academic Team status, the men's team not only kept up the pace but improved GPA-wise.  The fellas also achieved a team GPA of 3.53.  This is the highest semester team GPA for the men since I joined the coaching staff in 1999.  Absolutely wonderful!  In addition, please join along and congratulate David Tisserand on a perfect 4.0 for the term.

Now one might say that both teams registering a 3.53 is quite coincidental.  I agree.  However, to be completely honest, the women outdid the men just fractionally 3.528 to 3.526...not that this is a competition. It will be interesting to see what happens in the spring semester for sure.

I am so very proud of my players for many reasons but this ranks near the top of the list.  Everyone knows that we have great players here but may not be aware of the fact that we also have great people, citizens and students.  Our job as coaches is really just to love all of them and to guide them along the path to becoming successful members of society.  We take that obligation seriously.

It is a great pleasure to be associated with these teams and to have the opportunity to affect young lives in a hopefully positive way.

Nuff said...