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GCU Athletics
8-26-09
Grand Canyon University athletics will be featured on local television and radio Thursday.
Athletics Director Keith Baker (pictured) will be a guest on the Pat McMahon Show to air at 9 a.m. on AZTV7/Cable 13. McMahon was voted Phoenix's "Best Local TV Personality" for 2009 by AZCentral.com's Critic's Choice.
At 11:25 a.m. on the weekly "Grand Canyon University Sports Report" on AM-1060 "The Fan", GCU head men's soccer coach Petar Draksin will be welcomed by popular and personable host Kevin McCabe, a Phoenix sports TV and Radio staple for 20 years.
8-18-09
Grand Canyon University is the cover story for this month's issue of Sports Arizona.
Launched in April, Sports Arizona is a monthly interactive digital magazine that focuses on the Phoenix sports market.
The site is located at www.SportsArizonaOnline.com.
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 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
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