{"id":26881,"date":"2017-05-26T13:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26881"},"modified":"2017-05-26T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T19:56:48","slug":"student-athletes-win-in-classroom-and-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26881","title":{"rendered":"Student-athletes win in classroom and in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"740\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5nEv6iU7mQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UCCS-Mountain-Lion-Logo-300x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25135 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UCCS-Mountain-Lion-Logo-300x300-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UCCS-Mountain-Lion-Logo-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UCCS-Mountain-Lion-Logo-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>UCCS student-athletes posted a collective semester grade point average of 3.22 and extended the department&#8217;s streak of 3.0 or greater to 26 semesters following the Spring 2017 semester.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six student-athletes finished the semester with a perfect 4.00 semester GPA for recognition on the UCCS President&#8217;s List. Another 36 were members of the UCCS Dean&#8217;s List with a semester GPA between 3.75 and 3.99, according to the Athletic Department.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Lion student-athletes have finished with a 3.0 or greater in every semester since fall 2004, and have finished with a 3.2 or greater in the last three semesters. Five programs finished with a team GPA of 3.40 or greater, led by volleyball&#8217;s 3.71 GPA. Women&#8217;s cross country finished with a 3.53 and softball posted a 3.48. Soccer led the men&#8217;s programs with a 3.42 and women&#8217;s track and field rounded out the top five teams with a 3.41<\/p>\n<p>In competition, men&#8217;s golf won its 14th Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship with a tournament title in the spring and qualified for its 16th consecutive regional tournament. Women&#8217;s basketball won its first conference tournament and men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s track and field sent four student-athletes in six events between the indoor and outdoor national championships.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Darwin earned the RMAC Summit Award as the top cumulative GPA among women&#8217;s golfers at the conference championships, and followed with the RMAC Academic Golfer of the Year Award a few days later. She highlighted the individual academic awards for the Mountain Lions in the spring, which included four RMAC All-Academic First Team members and 40 Honor Roll students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS student-athletes posted a collective semester grade point average of 3.22 and extended the department&#8217;s streak of 3.0 or greater to 26 semesters following the Spring 2017 semester. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=26881\" title=\"Student-athletes win in classroom and in competition\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-athletics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-6Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26888,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26881\/revisions\/26888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}