2016 WVU Baseball Guide

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STUDENT-ATHLETE SUPPORT

West Virginia University offers a variety of services and programs to help student-athletes maximize their academic potential. Department staff members work with coaches, campus student service providers and faculty to help student-athletes meet the unique demands of the classroom, athletic competition and the personalsocial challenges they face as college students. To help its student athletes achieve academic success, one of the nation’s finest facilities resides in the WVU Coliseum – The Athletic Academic Performance Center. The 8,000-square foot facility provides individual and group study areas and a plethora of computer stations. More than 300 student-athletes were recognized for their achievement in the classroom last spring at the annual WVU Student-Athlete Academic Excellence Banquet, honoring recipients of the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll. Implemented in 1989, the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll was created to recognize students who have achieved a grade point average of 3.0 or better. Since the program began in 1989, nearly 4,000 student-athletes have earned a place on the honor roll. Ford retired in 2011 after 44 years of service with the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. West Virginia University’s graduation rate for student-athletes has been impressive, to say the least, over the past eight years. The ratio of studentathletes graduating to the general student body has increased almost every year. The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) provides a forum for the “voice of the studentathlete” on WVU’s campus. SAAC membership provides feedback to administration about how to better WVU athletic programs. They offer input on the rules, regulations and policies that affect student-athletes’ lives on NCAA member institution campuses.

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