Updated: 6/17/10

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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!