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USM Women’s
basketball team named NAIA All Scholar Team
The University
of Saint Mary Women’s
Basketball Team has been honored by the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as a 2007-08 Scholar
Team. The honor is reserved for teams with an
aggregate grade-point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. Nationally,
only 73 women’s
basketball teams reached that plateau.
The USM basketball team earned a GPA of 3.25.
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Two University of Saint Mary Women’s
Basketball Players named National Scholar-Athletes
Addie Heim |
Liz Gillespie |
The NAIA has named two women from the University of
Saint Mary to its Scholar Athlete list. Addie Heim, a
junior from Tonganoxie, Kan., and Liz Gillespie, a senior
from Grain Valley, Mo., are 2008 Daktronics/NAIA Scholar-Athletes.
The NAIA named 220 division II women's basketball players
to its list. Student-athletes must be nominated by their
head coach, have achieved junior academic status, and
maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.0
scale.
The basketball season begins November
1 and concludes in early March. The University of Saint
Mary Spires play in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
(KCAC) and is affiliated with the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Conference games
are played against Bethany College, Bethel College, Friends
University, Kansas Wesleyan University, McPherson College,
Ottawa University, Southwestern College, Sterling College,
and Tabor College. Non-conference games include other
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