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LACROSSE FOOTBALL SOCCER SOFTBALL SWIMMING TENNIS TRACK AND FIELD VOLLEYBALL WRESTLING BASEBALL BASKETBALL CROSS COUNTRY FIELD HOCKEY LACROSSE FOOTBALL Academic Support Services for Student-Athletes ship.edu/APS/Athletes TABLE OF CONTENTS SHIPPENSBURG QUICK FACTS Quick Facts/PSAC .............................................................2 Official Name of University: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania About the University .......................................................3 Member: The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Academics & Athletics ................................................4-5 Location and Zip Code: Shippensburg, Pa. 17257 Athletic Directory .............................................................5 President: Laurie A. Carter, J.D. Academic Support Services for Student-Athletes 6 Overall Enrollment: 7,000 Founded: 1871 ATHLETICS Colors: Red and Blue Women’s Team-by-Team Overviews ......................8-9 Nickname: Raiders Men’s Team-by-Team Overview ..........................10-11 Conference: Pennsylvania State Athletic Athletic Administration ............................................... 12 Other Affiliations: NCAA Division II Athletic Director: Jeff Michaels Student-Athlete Academic Summary .................... 13 Athletic Department Phone: (717) 477-1711 2017-18 PSAC Scholar Athletes ................................ 14 Web site: www.shipraiders.com PSAC Top 10 Award Winners ..................................... 15 Mailing Address: Sports Information Office Capital One/CoSIDA 1871 Old Main Drive (OM 304) Academic All-Americans ............................................. 16 Shippensburg, Pa. 17257 Pete Nevins PSAC Scholar Athletes of the Year ....................................... 17 Elite 90 Award Winners ................................................ 17 SU Standouts ............................................................18-19 SU Student-Athletes of the Year ............................... 20 ACADEMICS Ezra Lehman Memorial Library................................. 22 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, in compliance with federal and state laws and university policy, is committed to The Learning Center ..................................................... 23 human understanding and provides equal educational, employment, and economic opportunities for all persons without regard to 2018-19 Academic Calendar .................... Back Cover age, color, national origin, race, religion, disability, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Direct requests for disability accommodations and other inquiries to the Office of Disability Services, Shippensburg University, 1871 Old Main Drive, Shippensburg, PA 17257-2299, (717) 477-1364 [email protected]. ABOUT THE PSAC Originating in 1951 to administer and promote men’s athletics, the Pennsyl- PSAC membership has undergone significant changes over the last decade, vania State Athletic Conference has evolved into one of the NCAA’s most which includes an addition of the league’s first full-time member from heralded intercollegiate conferences. outside Pennsylvania. In 2018, it was announced that Shepherd University, The first major advancement came in 1977, when based on a growing inter- an institution based in Shepherdstown, W. Va., would begin league competi- est, the league reorganized to provide a structure for its women’s programs. tion in the 2019-20 season. Also announced in 2018 was the departure of Only three years later, lacking a standard competitive division, the league charter member Cheyney University. voted to reclassify the entire conference to NCAA Division II. The conference experienced expansion on two other recent occasions. The PSAC enters the 2018-19 academic year with 17 full-time members all Gannon and Mercyhurst Universities joined the league in 2008 while the within the Commonwealth. It remains the largest conference in Division University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown and Seton Hill University became II and the NCAA’s largest conference with all of its members located in the members in 2013. same state. In addition, the league provides championship opportunities in Although all 17 current institutions are members of Division II, five league 23 sports, second most in its classification. schools also compete at the Division I level in select sports. PSAC schools Highly competitive on a regional and national level, PSAC schools annually enroll over 125,000 students and claim approximately 790,000 alumni, combine to send nearly one-third of its teams into NCAA postseason play. including over 560,000 who Ultimately, the membership’s success has yielded 54 NCAA team and 285 reside in Pennsylvania. individual title winners. The PSAC is governed by While proud of its athletic accomplishments, the league also has evolved the presidents of the 17 into one of Division II’s finest from an academic standpoint. In 2017-18 a member institutions. It em- new standard was set with 3,062 of the league’s student-athletes honored as ploys a commissioner, two “Scholar-Athletes” for maintaining a grade-point average of 3.25 or better. associate commissioners, The 42% figure marked the eighth straight year with over one-third of the and a director of communi- league’s student-athletes accomplishing that feat and the total represents a cations at its headquarters number that is four times higher since PSAC Scholar-Athletes were first in Lock Haven, Pa. recognized in the mid-1990s. 2 Shippensburg University ABOUT SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY General Information • Council for the Accreditation of Counseling Athletics • Founded in 1871 as the Cumberland Valley and Related Educational Programs • Member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic State Normal School • Council for Exceptional Children Conference and NCAA Division II. • Comprehensive regional public university • Council on Social Work Education • Intercollegiate sports: • Member of the Pennsylvania State System • International Association of Counseling Men: baseball, basketball, cross country, of Higher Education Services football, soccer, swimming, track and field, • Located on 200 acres in southcentral Penn- • Middle States Commission on Higer Edu- wrestling. sylvania cation Women: basketball, cross country, field • National Council for Accreditation of hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, Enrollment Teacher Education tennis, track and field, volleyball. • 7,000 total undergraduate • Intramural sports: and graduate students Academic Programs Basketball, bowling, racquetball, soccer, • 53% women and 47% men and Opportunities softball, street hockey, tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, volleyball and more. • 37% of students live on campus • 100 undergraduate programs and • Sports facilities include: outdoor tennis • 94% of our students are from Pennsylvania 57 graduate programs • 3 colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, and courts, indoor and outdoor track, two in- door swimming pools, squash and handball Faculty Education and Human Services; plus a Of- fice for Exploratory Studies. courts, a rehabilitation center, outdoor sand • Student-faculty ratio: 20:1 and each student volleyball courts. • Study abroad opportunities are available in has a faculty advisor dozens of countries. Find out more at www. • ShipRec Center features an 8,000-square- • 91% of the 294 full-time instructional ship.edu/international foot fitness center, with 35 cardio machines faculty members hold a doctorate or other with TVs, an elevated running track, • Internships, hands-on labs, graduate as- terminal degree in their field racquetball courts, and four multi-purpose sistantships and more, SU helps you create courts. • Our faculty’s main focus is teaching. All opportunities for real-life experiences. classes are taught by faculty, not graduate • 12-acre student recreation center includes: • Academic options include independent assistants hockey rink; sand volleyball courts; bas- study and research internships, field experi- ketball courts; fields for football, softball, Accreditations ence, the Marine Science Consortium at lacrosse, and rugby; exercise trail for roller- Wallops Island, 2+3 and 3+3 health science blading, biking, and jogging. • AACSB International programs with professional schools, 2+2 • ABET (Computer Science) allied health programs, and Army ROTC. • ACEJMC (Communications/ • Find a job or focus on a career with the help Journalism) from the Career and Community Engage- • American Chemical Society ment Center and Alumni Relations. Academic Support Services for Student-Athletes 3 ACADEMICS & ATHLETICS Shippensburg University shapes its athletic program to fit within the Shippensburg’s athletes continue to show high six-year graduation overall academic goals of the university—maintaining a balance between rates. Sixty-two percent of those receiving athletically related financial athletics and academics. aid graduate within six years of enrolling. The 2009 NCAA Gradu- Since 1984, the university’s Office of Institutional Research has moni- ation Rate Report found that nationally, among public Division II tored the progress of our athletes in the classroom. The original study schools, the graduation rate was 47 percent with athletes graduating at found that Shippensburg was ahead of many institutions in meeting the 55 percent. Retention studies by the Office of Institutional Research standards of Propositions 48 and 64—two NCAA resolutions designed and Planning show male athletes at Shippensburg graduated at 58 to set minimum educational levels in collegiate athletes. percent