Scholar-Athlete Breakfast

On February 21st the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg held their Scholar-Athlete Breakfast. It is the same type of breakfast they hold at the University of Pittsburgh campus in Oakland, but not with as many athletes. haha  If you have a 3.0 or higher you are invited to the breakfast, which always includes a great guest speaker. This year it was Marcus Bowman who is the Assistant Athletic Director for Administration and Planning at the University of Pittsburgh and former walk-on player for the basketball team.

Our team goal every year is to represent our University the best way we can both on and off the court. Our goal off the court in regards to academics is to achieve higher than a 3.0 team GPA. For comparative sake, Duke is around a 3.0 every year. This year our team came in with a first semester GPA of 3.06! In doing so, there were multiple players that qualified to be invited to the Scholar-Athlete breakfast with higher than 3.0 GPAs. Matter of fact, 9 of our 15 players achieved that 3.0 or better GPA.  Here's a picture of them....

Yes, they did a great job of pretending to be awake for the picture! haha

Seriously though, as a coach I couldn't be more proud of this group! To have 2/3 of any team achieve 3.0's or higher is truly amazing to me and I just can't say enough how proud I am of them. I'm looking forward to next year when even more of their teammates join them in achieving the lofty goals we have for them as students. After all, that is the main reason they are in school and have chosen Pitt-Greensburg!

Yours In Hoops,
Coach Strick