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Champions In the Classroom
Champions In Competition
Champions In the Community

A Commitment to Excellence

Champions In the Classroom

• Current average team GPA for all 18 programs is a 3.1 . All 18 sport programs currently meet the requisite Multi-Year NCAA APR score for the 2015-16 cohort .
• Seven sport programs earned a perfect APR score of 1,000 for the 2015-16 year .
• Since 2010-11 , 14 Blue Devils student-athletes have been named Northeast Conference Scholar-Athlete Award winners in their respective sports .
• A total of 168 CCSU student-athletes were named to the Northeast Conference Academic Honor Roll ( 3.20 GPA or higher ) in 2015-16 - THE MOST IN THE PAST SIX YEARS
• 28 student-athletes were named to the Northeast Conference Commissioner ’ s Honor Roll for compiling a GPA of 3.75 or higher .
• Approximately 60 percent of CCSU student-athletes have a cumulative GPA above 3.0 .

Champions In Competition

• The Blue Devils have captured 17 Northeast Conference Championships across eight sports since the 2010 Spring season - the 3rd highest total in the NEC during that span .
• The men ’ s cross country team won its eighth consecutive Northeast Conference Championship in 2016-17 , becoming just the second NEC sport program to win eight straight conference titles .
• 99 CCSU student-athletes earned All-Northeast Conference honors during the 2015-16 season .
• 24 Blue Devils claimed an individual championship during 2015-16 competition .
• Women ’ s swimmer , Maddy Garber , competed at the 2016 U . S . Olympic Swimming Trials and men ’ s track & field athletes Edwin Alston and Roberto Piotto competed at the USATF Junior Outdoor Championships .
• The Blue Devils placed 4th in the 2014-15 Brenda Weare Commissioner ’ s Cup standings - their best overall finish since 2001-02 . The women ’ s programs set a record for points and matched their best finish ( 3rd ), while the men ’ s programs have finished in the top-five for nine straight seasons .
• The Blue Devils captured 5 NEC Championships in 2014-15 - the highest single-year total in CCSU history .

Champions In the Community

• Blue Devil student-athletes have completed approximately 35,000 hours of service since 2010 .
• CCSU has finished in the Top-five for the NEC “ Building Communities ” Award each of the six years it has been presented since 2010-11 .
• CCSU student-athletes have partnered with Interval House CT , to form College Athletes Peer Ambassadors ( CAPA ) to help their fellow students recognize warning signs in unhealthy relationships .
• CCSU and over 200 student-athletes teamed up with The Ana Grace Project and Fleet Feet West Hartford to distribute sneakers to fifth graders from New Britain ’ s Chamberlain Elementary and have a day of activities on campus and on the athletics fields .