Updated:
6/17/10
The Spartan Club Insider provides
updates about the UNCG athletic program and upcoming
Spartan Club events. It is sent to Spartan
Club Members via e-mail
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Spartan Club end of Fiscal
Year…
As the end of our fiscal year approaches on June
30, we wanted to thank you for all of the support
you have shown UNCG Athletics. It is because of
people like you that we are able to provide the
necessary funding for our athletic programs. If
you have not yet made your gift to the Spartan
Club this fiscal year (July 1, 2009-June 30, 2010)
please send us your contribution by June 30. Gifts
can also be made online or by calling the Spartan
Club office at 336.334.5156. Please note that credit
card numbers cannot be sent to us via email and
remember all contributions to the Spartan Club
are 100% tax deductible. On behalf of the student-athletes
at UNCG, thank you again for all that you do to
support the program.
Spartan Club Contact Information:
Mike Roach, Director (336) 334-3576
Donegan Root,
Assistant Director (336) 334-3786
Mailing address: UNCG Spartan Club ~ 337 HHP Building
~ PO Box 26168 Greensboro, NC 27402
Spartan Athletics Achievements…
•
UNCG tied it’s best-ever finish in the Southern
Conference Commissioner's Cup standings with a second-place
finish. The Spartans were second in the Commissioner's
Cup, which is based on men's sports standings, and
seventh in the Germann Cup, which is based on women's
sports standings. UNCG's second-place standing on
the men's side equaled its best finish set in 2006-07.
• UNCG Athletic Director Kim Record announced
Wednesday that all 18 Spartan athletic teams have
met satisfactory standards when the institution's
Academic Progress Report (APR) scores were announced
by the NCAA. The scores reflected the multi-year
APR scores for 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09
academic years. The APR provides a real-time look
at a team's academic success each semester or quarter
by tracking the academic progress of each student-athlete.
The APR includes eligibility, retention and graduation
in the calculation and provides a clear picture of
the academic culture in each sport.
• Women's golfer Sofia Aidemark was named
to the ESPN Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District
at-large squad. Earning her second straight first-team
all-district selection, Aidemark will now be eligible
for the national All-America ballot later this month.
A senior from Laholm, Sweden, she graduated with
a 3.97 GPA in Communications. Aidemark is UNCG’s
first international student to be inducted into Phi
Beta Kappa and earned Dean's List six out of her
first seven semesters at UNCG and Chancellor's List
each of the first five semesters.
• Jenn Partenheimer and Andy Clyne were among
23 Southern Conference student-athletes named as
recipients of the fifth annual Coleman Lew Leadership
Award last month. The award recognizes student-athletes
from each of the Southern Conference's 12 member
institutions who have demonstrated leadership, academic
excellence and athletic achievement in both the college
environment and the community. Partenheimer, a midfielder
on the women's soccer team who is majoring in kinesiology
and Clyne, a runner on the men's cross country team
who is an accounting major, will both have access
to Coleman Lew consultants for advice and counseling
as they begin their search for post-graduation employment.
Student-Athlete Alumnae in the news…
•
UNCG alumna and former coach and administrator Pat
Hielscher was among 12 individuals named as recipients
of the Southern Conference's Distinguished Service
Awards for 2010. Hielscher ('66, MSPE '70) has long
been dedicated to Spartan athletics. After her beginnings
as a basketball and volleyball student-athlete in
the days before the formalization of the UNCG athletic
program, she began the intercollegiate volleyball
program in 1970. She served as the program's coach
for five seasons, compiling a record of 106-30 and
led the team to the 1974 NCAIAW title. For her coaching
success and dedication to women's sports at the university,
she was an inductee in the second class of the UNCG
Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. After leaving UNCG,
she went on to successful tenures as a head coach
at Wisconsin and North Carolina State. Hielscher's
involvement with UNCG has spanned more than her coaching
tenure. She served on the Spartan Club Executive
Committee from 2001-2004 and was a member of the
UNCG Athletics Hall of Fame selection committee.
In 2009, she helped spearhead the creation of the
Celebration of Women in Sport Endowment, which will
be awarded for the first time to a female student-athlete
in 2010-11 - one of several ventures she has been
a part of in fundraising for women's athletics at
UNCG.
• UNCG alumnae Jenny Gleason ‘03 and
Becky Morgan ‘97 both qualified for the 2010
U.S. Women’s open championship last week. Gleason,
a Clearwater, Fla., native finished tied for third
in the sectional to earn a spot in the open for the
second time in her professional career. At UNCG,
Gleason earned All-SoCon honors four times (2000-2003).
Following her senior season at UNCG, she qualified
for the 2003 U.S. Public Links Championship and the
2003 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship. She also
played in the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in
1999. Morgan, a nine-year veteran of the LPGA Tour,
was a second-team All-American and a four-time All-Big
South honoree at UNCG. A member of the UNCG Athletics
Hall of Fame, Morgan finished 10th at the 1997 NCAA
Championship and won 10 individual medalist honors
in her collegiate career.
SPARTANS WIN!
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