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Women’s Tennis Earns ITA Academic Honors
TEMPE, Ariz. — The Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced its 2023 Division III Scholar-Athletes and All-Academic Teams and the Gustavus women’s team earned recognition. The Gustie women had 15 student-athletes earn Scholar-Athlete honors with the team garnering the All-Academic Team award. Gustavus Scholar-Athletes Emily Carlson (Jr., Maple Grove) Kaya De Brujin (Fy., Maasland, Netherlands) Lili […]
A Gustie Songbird Returns to the Nest
Dr. Andrew Kendall ‘15 is coming back to the Hill as the conductor of the Choir of Christ Chapel and Lucia Singers. What have you been up to since leaving Gustavus? A.K.: Right after I graduated from Gustavus, I taught for three years in Holdingford, MN, where I was responsible for 11 choirs. After that, […]
Volleyball Earns AVCA Team Academic Award
The United States Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced Thursday that 1,333 collegiate and high school volleyball teams earned the USMC/AVCA Team Academic Award this season. This marks an all-time record number of programs honored for their academic achievements. The award, initiated in the 1992–93 academic year, honors volleyball teams that maintain a year-long grade-point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale or 4.1 on a 5.0 scale. The Gustavus volleyball team earned recognition with the Team Academic Award for the seventh season in a row.
Swim & Dive Earns CSCAA Scholar All-America Honors
The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) recently announced that the Gustavus Adolphus College men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams have earned Scholar All-America honors for their efforts in the classroom during the Spring 2023 semester. The Gustavus men and women were two of the 298 Division III programs to earn the honor after posting GPAs of 3.60 and 3.61 respectively.
Six Gusties Named WGCA All-American Scholars
The 2022-23 Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) announced its All-American Scholar Team earlier in the month, and six Gustavus women’s golfers were recognized with the honor. The six women were of 1,401 collegiate golfers from 378 programs recognized with this prestigious honor.
Track & Field Garners USTFCCCA Academic Awards
The Gustavus track & field teams recently earned multiple honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) following the conclusion of the 2022 outdoor season. Seven Gusties received All-Academic Athlete recognition, while both the men’s and women’s squads were named All-Academic Teams. The Gustie men and women earned All-Academic Team recognition with a 3.22 and 3.51 team GPA, respectively.
Delaney Bluhm ’23
“Every course I take puts a new perspective on the knowledge I may have already learned in a previous course.” Delaney Bluhm is a recent graduate from La Porte, Indiana. She chose her major of Political Science and Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies because she’s always known that she wants to help people. Soon after arriving […]
First Annual GTS User Satisfaction Survey
There were more than 180 responses to the inaugural GTS Annual User Satisfaction Survey (GAUSS)! Thank you for all the helpful feedback. The full results (minus specific comments) have been posted online. We will be reopening this survey each year during May and June. Our hope is to use the data and comments to inform […]