May 19, 2008
With the 2007-08 academic year coming to a close this past week, the San Diego State athletic department received several honors for its work in the classroom over the last 12 months. Below is a list of just some of the achievements:
2007-08 Academic Review
Statistics
- Student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the general SDSU student population (84 percent)
- Ranked No. 1 in the Mountain West Conference in African-American football student-athlete graduation rate
- 218 scholar-athletes in 2007 (3.0 cumulative GPA or 3.2 semester GPA) - Over 2200 scholar-athletes honored since 1994
- Team GPAs over 3.0 since fall 1999 - women's cross country (11 times), women's tennis (11 times), volleyball (five times), men's tennis (four times), women's crew (two times), water polo (two times), women's golf (once), women's soccer (once), softball (once).
- Highest ever team GPA in fall 2007 - baseball, men's basketball, men's golf, water polo
- Graduation Success Rate Report (1997-2000) - Women's tennis (100 percent), volleyball (92 percent), men's golf (91 percent), women's soccer (90 percent), women's swimming (87 percent), men's soccer (84 percent), water polo (83 percent), rowing (82 percent), football (70 percent, 2nd in MWC)
Department Honors
- Laboratory for Diversity In Sport: Male African-American graduation rate; Title IX compliance
Team Honors
- 2007 Faculty Athletic Representative Award - men's and women's tennis
- 2007 Team Community Service Award - fall 2007: baseball, women's tennis; spring 2007: volleyball, crew
- 2007 Montezuma Cup (life skills challenge): water polo
Individual Honors
- Maria Moreno-Pardo: Professional Promise Award for Region V, (National Association of Academic Advisors in Athletics (N4A))
- NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship - Christin Shibley (track and field)
- NFF Hampshire Honor Society (National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame) - Scotty James (football)
- 2007 ESPN The Magazine All-District VIII second team - Scotty James (football)
- 2007 ESPN The Magazine All-District VIII third team - Kristen Castillo (volleyball)
- 2007 Pac-10 All-Academic first team - Freddy McDonald (men's soccer)
- 2007 MWC Spring All-Academic Team (3.0 GPA) - 40 student athletes
- 2006-07 MWC Scholar Athletes (3.5 GPA) - 26 student-athletes
- 2007 MWC Fall All-Academic Team (3.0 GPA) - 26 student-athletes
*Women's Cross Country - Stephanie Armstrong, Sara Beyers, Lindsey Deane, Makenzie Mabry, Lisa Naucler, Andrea Norton, Alyssa Robinson
*Football - Russell Allen, Tony DeMartinis, Scotty James, Matthew Kawulok, Nick Sandford, Michael Stewart
*Women's Soccer - Tiphanie Elliott, Jessica Girdner, Brooke Holliday, Alison Lokanc, Lauren Marquez, Lisa Nielsen, Jackie Ragudos, Jillian Riker, Ashley Young
*Women's Volleyball - Kristen Castillo, Caitlin McMillan, Lauren Salisbury, Kelley Whalin
- 2007 Malik Award Recipients (4.0 semester GPA) - spring 2007: Christian Groh (men's tennis), Patrick Justman (football), Monica Pacas (track and field); fall 2007: Ryan Bowie (men's soccer), Heather Fenske (water polo), Noelle Holland (swimming and diving), Andrea Norton (cross country/track and field), Christin Shibley (track and field)
- SDSU Student-Athetes of the Year: Aaron Goldberg (golf), Becca Ur (water polo)
- Academic Initiative Medal (A.I.M. award): Esther Cadua (women's tennis)
Activities
- SDSU athletic community service participation: MS, Juvenile Diabetes, Cancer walks, Ronald McDonald House fundraiser, visits to local and military hospitals, visits to elementary schools, feeding the homeless, building homes for Habitat for Humanity, holiday clothes and food drives, Shop-With-A-Jock, blood drives, YMCA Adopt-A-Family, Row for the Cure, Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, mentoring at Encanto Elementary School, campus cleanups