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GRIFFINs Athletics Photo: Kutztown Athletics Kutztown Photo: Photo: ADM Photography Photo: Photo: ADM Photography Photo: Photo: ADM Photography Photo: Dymphena Clark GRIFFIN ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER SUMMER/FALL 2016 join or renew your gaa membership inside News from the griffin athletic association Greetings Griffin Fans! You will notice that the GAA has a new and improved look! Through I trust our Griffin Athletic your ongoing and increased Association (GAA) Newsletter support, it became apparent it finds you doing well, and I hope was time to redesign the GAA your 2017 is off to a great start. levels, member benefits, and I am very excited to share that add a $2,500 All-American the GAA continues to grow each Society. This improvement is year through new and renewed only possible because of you, our memberships. Thank you! most loyal and dedicated fans. The GAA, now slightly more Please consider joining or than five years old, provides renewing your current annual our 21 varsity teams with the GAA membership by completing necessary items to enhance our the form inside and using the student-athlete’s experiences. remittance envelope provided. From enhancing travel budgets Do not forget about our matching to purchasing elite training gift program that may double equipment and from adding or even triple your donation. fields to upgrading facilities, You may also take advantage of your support of the GAA helps our recurring gift program that Seton Hill University recruit, allows you to make a larger gift retain and graduate students over a period of time. that are fit for the world. Again, for all you do, thank you. I am truly humbled and excited for the future of the GAA, and I hope you are too. Kind regards, Kris Smith Griffin Athletic Association From the AD’s Desk Dear Griffin Fans, of a new turf field for football, field hockey, and women’s I hope this newsletter finds you lacrosse, and we have also well. I wanted to take a moment completed major renovations to update you all on some to the softball field by installing happenings on The Hill over the a new turf field along with new summer and fall seasons. At dugouts. This summer, the the beginning of the summer baseball field will be renovated. season, perhaps our biggest accomplishment was that, for The fall season saw the Griffins the third consecutive year, our improve over the previous year. athletes achieved the highest Our women’s cross country overall grade point average in team made school history by the PSAC. In addition, Seton qualifying, as a team, for the Hill had the highest percentage NCAA Championship Race of athletes to be named to the held in Tampa, Florida. All- PSAC Commissioner’s Region runners Chelsia Poole Honor Roll. and Alyssa Brandis led the ladies. The men’s soccer The Doug Wood Memorial Golf team returned to the PSAC Classic was a tremendous Tournament making the success—Thank you to all semi-finals. Joe Smith, Rory those that participated and McKinnon, and Harrison Howes contributed to this signature all earned All-PSAC accolades event! The success of this and were named to the All- event enabled us to complete Region Team. In addition, the construction of a press box at volleyball team returned to the Dick’s Sporting Goods Field PSAC post-season. All-PSAC and has afforded us performer Cassie Hausfeld led the opportunity to the Griffins. Football finished begin installation the season with five wins, of a massive including a convincing win field renovation over PSAC Eastern Division project. We Champion Kutztown University. have completed Women’s soccer and field installation 1 hockey also showed marked support our basketball and improvement over 2015 and wrestling teams. our Equestrian team had a very strong fall season. GO GRIFFINS! Thank you again for all you do to support Griffin Athletics and I hope to see you in McKenna Chris Snyder over the winter months to Executive Director of Athletics Doug Wood Golf Classic Continues to Exceed Goals Our sponsors and guests have for the University’s Athletic lifted the Doug Wood Golf Department, and we know it will Classic to one of Southwestern be used to support their efforts Pennsylvania’s most notable to continue expanding and golf outings. enhancing facilities.” “This event never ceases to The proceeds from the 2016 amaze me. Each year, I think event were used immediately we have reached our potential to assist with the purchase of but that’s just not the case. NCAA regulation shot clocks Our event continues to expand for our men’s and women’s through increased lacrosse programs, sponsorships and sell- NCAA regulation lines out crowds, and the on our basketball SETON HILL UNIVERSITY entire Wood family court and the is very proud to addition of two honor Doug’s legacy new outdoor through this event,” fields. said Dan Wood. DOUG WOOD “Again, we have GOLF CLASSIC The Ninth raised $50,000 Annual Doug 2 Wood Memorial Golf Classic you do, thank you for making will be held on Friday, June 9, this day so special to the Wood 2017 at Arnold Palmer’s Latrobe family and Seton Hill University. Country Club. Again, for all Griffins Extend Top GPA Streak to Three Years! The GAA Newsletter is designed to basketball (3.114) teams each share news, updates, records and placed second. help Seton Hill’s most loyal fans get to know our student-athletes In addition to the Team GPA as athletes. However, at Seton Hill awards, 52 percent of Seton Hill’s University, our student-athletes 488 student-athletes were named are students first and foremost. Scholar Athletes by the league for And, for the third consecutive earning a GPA of 3.25 or above in year, our 488 student- the 2015-16 academic athletes have earned year. Seton Hill had the privilege to say the highest percentage they are atop of the of Scholar Athletes PSAC for overall among all PSAC team GPA with a institutions. 3.396. “Seton Hill student- The six Seton athletes continue Hill teams with to showcase their the highest GPA talents both in the among their peers classroom and on the include: women’s cross field of play,” said Seton country (3.749); women’s tennis Hill President Mary C. Finger, (3.734); women’s basketball Ed.D. “This recognition from the (3.599); women’s track and field PSAC for the third consecutive (3.597); men’s soccer (3.348); and year illustrates again Seton Hill baseball (3.301). The women’s student-athletes’ dedication to soccer (3.668); volleyball (3.632); their academics. The entire Seton women’s lacrosse (3.532); men’s Hill University community is proud cross country (3.492); and men’s of their accomplishments.” 3 Griffins Earn Third PSAC Postseason Berth in Four Seasons in the PSAC The Seton Hill volleyball team over Clarion and earned their third trip to the PSAC IUP to secure their postseason in their four seasons playoff spot. Seton of conference play after earning Hill won their fourth the seventh seed in the PSAC and fifth sets over Tournament. SHU finished the Clarion for a 3-2 season with a 19-13 overall mark win and clinched and an 11-7 record in PSAC play. their playoff spot in a win-an-in match The Griffins opened the season against IUP where with a 4-0 record after sweep- they swept the Crim- ing through the Shippensburg son Hawks. Tourney. SHU then went 4-4 the next two weekends after splitting The Griffins won the four games in both the Wayne first set in the PSAC State and Wheeling Jesuit Tour- Tournament at Pitt naments. Seton Hill then ran off Johnstown before drop- five straight PSAC wins to open ping the final three to end conference play with a 5-0 mark. their season. After dropping their first PSAC contest to Edinboro, the Griffins Senior Cassie Hausfeld responded with two 3-0 wins over earned second team All California and Mercyhurst. SHU PSAC honors. was 15-5 overall and 7-1 in PSAC Hausfeld led the Griffins action. with 311 kills. She also Seton Hill then hit some hard added 286 digs and a team high times as the Griffins dropped six 26 aces. Leah Bisignani was of their next seven matches to fall second on the team with 238 kills in the PSAC standings and see and led the squad with 83 blocks. their hopes of an NCAA Regional Maggie Murray led the Griffins appearance slip away. with 600 assists. Mary Baich had a team high 449 digs while Han- With their backs against the wall, nah Moeller finished with 320. SHU responded with two victories Photo: ADM Photography 4 Tennis Wins Twice in Short Fall Season The Griffin tennis team won two and DeBone all win singles match- of its three matches in a short fall es and the Carvajalino sisters and season that saw two of its matches DeBone/Bailey won their doubles pushed back into the spring portion matches. of the schedule. Diana Carvajalino advanced to the SHU opened the season with a 6-3 quarterfinal round of the PSAC Sin- win against Daemen College. The gles Championship. She won 7-5, Griffins had three singles wins from 3-6, 10-5 in the first round and 7-5, three freshmen (Diana Carvajalino, 6-4 in the second round before fall- Jenna Bailey and Ana Salazar). ing to the two time defending PSAC Madison DeBone also won her singles champion in the quarters. singles match.