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Athletic department to host ‘Junior Day’ in May

Bobby MartinezSports Writer

NEW HAVEN — Southern Connecticut State University’s athletic department will host “SCSU athletics junior day” May 3, 2014 from 9a.m to 12:30p.m. at Moore Field House.

According to SCSU’s athletics department, the event will provide student-athletes with on important information that will help their time at Southern easier.

“Prospective student-athletes will have the opportunity to listen to presentations from several campus departments, including admissions, financial aid and compliance. There will also be informational sessions from departments including the Registrar, Student Life, Academic Support, Residence Life, the Student Center, Campus Recreation and Athletic Training.”

The event will start off with a welcoming speech from Matt Letkowski, Assistant Director of Compliance and Len Barbieri, Academic Support Coordinator. Athletes will then be given additional information and help regarding ever resources available to them such as student life, student center, financial aid to name a few.

Junior power forward, Stefon Williams, said he appreciates the hard work the athletic department does for their athletes because at times athletes may not realize that there is help for any situation they have.

“The athletic department,” said Williams, “is always willing to make our time here smooth. They try their hardest to make sure we understand all the resources we have and to me, I think that’s one of the main reasons why us athletes are able to do well in our sport.”

This year, Southern’s athletics have experienced a successful year not only in sports, but also in academics. For the 2013 fall semester, SCSU’s student-athletes which consist of 392 athletes, managed to maintain a grade point average of 3.04 which marked the highest in school history.

Athletic director, Patricia D. Nicol, was pleased with her student-athletes success alongside the help of the university in achieving such a high GPA.

“The academic success achieved individually and collectively by our student-athletes this past semester continues to demonstrate their presence as outstanding ambassadors for Southern Connecticut State University,” said Nicol. “These great accomplishments could not be achieved without tremendous support from our university administration, faculty and staff, as well as our coaching staff and athletic administration. I offer my congratulations to our coaches and student-athletes for their distinguished accomplishments.”

As for the sports side, both swimming and diving teams managed to continue their dominance by securing yet another Northeast-10 Conference Championship. Not only did they manage to win another title, but athletes such as junior Raymond Cswerko, captured his first National Title in this year’s NCAA Division II championship in the 200-yard butterfly.

In addition, track star, Nick Lebron, captured his second National Title in three years in the heptathlon and finished with a NCAA Division II record score of 5,765 points. Then there is the men’s basketball team who had the best season in schools history with a record of 30-3.

With a record that marked the best ever, the Owls won their first NE-10 title alongside winning the regional title in the NCAA D-II tournament. They eventually fell short to Central Missouri in eh Elite Eight who went on to win the National Title by defeating Western Liberty University 84-77.

The Owls athletic program has a total of 78 NCAA Division II Individual Championships, 10 NCAA Division II Team Championships and almost 1,100 All-America selections all-time. As the athletic program seeks ways to improve each year, next year will be one of the most unfamiliar year due to numerous changes.

The Owls football team will not have Rich Cavanaugh on the sidelines coaching who has stuck with this program for the last 29 years. The football program is now in the hands of former offensive coordinator for the last 13 seasons, Tom Godek. Also, the women’s basketball team is in search for a new head coach after Meghan Brown was let go due to personal reasons.

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