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All-Sports Directors Cup
6-23-09
Grand Canyon University finished 174th in the Learfield Sports Director's Cup NCAA Division II standings.
The Director's Cup is an all-sports compilation based on athletic success of colleges throughout the nation. It is a representation of where a university's athletic program ranks as a whole nationwide. A university athletic program's finish in national postseason competition goes a long way in determining the Cup standings.
Grand Canyon had 85 points. Grand Valley State University in Michigan won its sixth straight championship with 1014.50 points.
Director's Cup Standings
PacWest Academics
6-18-09
Grand Canyon University's student-athletes posted the fourth highest grade point average in the Pacific West Conference in 2008-09. 
GCU's student-athletes had a combined GPA of 2.967 for the conference's 11 sports this academic year.
BYU-Hawaii reported a 3.154 GPA, which ranked tops in the PacWest. Notre Dame de Namur was second at 3.139. Neither school fields a baseball team.
Grand Canyon boasted the most PacWest All-Academic student-athletes in the conference. Athletes who've competed at the school for at least two years and have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 were eligible for PacWest Academic honors. GCU had 33 student-athletes named to the conference all-academic list.
6-17-09
Grand Canyon University had the most student athletes on the 2009 PacWest Academic All-Conference team, announced Tuesday by the league's media relations office.
GCU had a league-best 34 selections on the 146 member student-athlete list that included programs from Dixie State, Notre Dame de Namur, BYU-Hawai'i, Chaminade, Hawai'i Pacific and Hawai'i Hilo.
Student-athletes had to have a 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA and be in their second year of competition at the school. NDNU was second with 22 members.
PACWEST ALL-ACADEMIC
Baseball
6-16-09
Grand Canyon switch-hitting catcher Austin Stockfisch (pictured) finished 22nd nationally among Division II players toughest to strikeout.
Stockfisch, from Scottsdale, Ariz., fanned just once every 20.6 at-bats. Out of 213 plate appearances, he struck out only nine times. It was the best GCU ranking in the NCAA's final statistics.
Third baseman Matt Fox, from Yuma, Ariz., ranked 51st in home runs (14), 64th in home runs per game (.25) and 80th in slugging percentage (.690).
Baseball
6-15-09
Former Grand Canyon University pitcher Brian Broderick made his Class AA debut with the Springfield Cardinals Sunday.
Broderick, a 22-year old, 6-foot-6 right-hander, was a 21st round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007. He was 5-5 at Class A Palm Beach with a 5.19 ERA and had pitched 60.2 innings, walking only eight. He suffered a loss to the Arkansas Travelers Sunday, throwing six innings and giving up four earned runs.
Since he began pitching professionally, Broderick has only walked 27 batters in 208.2 innings pitched.
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