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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
Lacrosse
5-27-09
Grand Canyon University's lacrosse team finished the season leading NCAA Division II in saves per game, according to final NCAA statistical reports released Wednesday. 
GCU averaged 20.0 saves per game. Freshman Andrew Hunter (Scottsdale, Ariz./Desert Mountain HS) spent the majority of time in goal for the Antelopes, averaging 18.31 saves per game. Freshmen backups Dale Schlegel (Downey, Calif./Downey HS) and Jeff Tabor (Crofton, Md./Hargrave Military Academy) combined for 20 of the team's 260 saves.
Hunter (pictured #23) had 238 saves, starting in all 13 games for the Antelopes.
"Our goaltending was definitely an upgrade this season," second-year Lopes coach Adam Marshall said.
NCAA Statistical Rankings
SAAC
4-22-09
When Ashley Hardin transferred to Grand Canyon University from NCAA Division I Northern Arizona University two years ago to play basketball, she had no clue what SAAC stood for. 
In fact, she never knew it existed.
Now Hardin (pictured) is the school and Pacific West Conference's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee president after becoming actively involved in the nation-wide group designed to make a difference in the lives of underpriviledged community members, in addition to bettering the college experience for all students.
"We're basically the bridge between not only the student-athletes, but other students and the administrators as well," Hardin said. "That way we relay what other students want us to fix."
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