Blazers News
Focused: 2020/21 Student-Athletes Make A Scholarly Statement
With their 2020-21 competitive seasons cancelled, the CMU Blazers showcased their talents in the physical and virtual classrooms durign the coronavirus pandemic, surpassing all previous year's academic successes. The varsity teams combined to showcase an eye-catching number of scholar-athletes with 74.4% acheiving an academic score of 3.0 or higher. For returning and graduating student-athletes, these scores were based on the combined semesters of Winter 2020 and Fall 2020, while for rookie athletes, academic performances were recorded from Fall 2020.
"Our athletes have faced many obstacles this year and I am really proud of the way they have overcome these challenges and poured their focus into their studies," said CMU's Director of Athletics, Russell Willms. "Our programs aim to coach athletes to thrive when they face challenges, to develop strategies, to be able to adjust quickly as situations change and to perform under pressure. These academic results speak for themselves. The successes that our athletes have found this year will help to set new and higher standards for academic performance and establish team cultures of academic engagement and excellence."
Of the sixty-eight full-time student-athletes to score at or above a grade-point average of 3.0, twenty-eight athletes recorded elite academic scores of 3.7 or higher. Those athletes names are highlighted in bold.
CMU Athletics would like to congratulate our student-athletes on their academic successes and wish you all continued success in your forthcoming winter semester exams.
WOMEN'S SOCCER
Melissa Gilbert
Tia Bruinsma
Tai Linklater
Christina Duerksen
Julia Ignagni
Hannah Neufeldt
Tiffany Gilbert
Tiegan Kroeker
Lindsay Knodel
Dara Neufeld
Rachel Neufeld
Mariel Roehr
Mamie Kroeker-Tom
Ezri Trump
MEN'S SOCCER
Arnav Ahuja
Sherwin Thiessen
Aaron Doerksen
Stanislav Pankiewicz
Jonathan Monsevula
Daniel McIntyre-Ridd
Yeri Concepcion
Waldy Preis
Tim Shantz
Matheus Moreno
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Chloe Boulet
Briana Ehrmantraut
Emily Townsend
Nifemi Gbadamosi
Lauren Derco-Todd
Morag de Koning
Jessica Marx-Houndle
Megan Mulder
Reyna Reyes
Julia Schatkowsky
Kennedy Martens
Madison Zadro
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Daniel Oranu
Matt Brenton
Kieran Baydock
Pacifique Jubilate
Andrew Hutton
Binh Nguyen
Graham Rasmussen
Javan Pries
Elliot Russenholt
Zach Van Walleghem
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Vanessa Friesen
Jessica Edel
Renée Desroches
Leia Jaworski
Lydawn Mcgarry
Lauren Ens
Chloe Friesen
Annika Kornelsen
Mackenzy Groot
Alyssa Patterson
Delaney Gerwing
Annika Loeppky
Brooklyn Thiessen
MEN'S VOLLEYBALL
Jack Tyrrell
Brock Carmichael
Matthew Pagé
Levi Klassen
Cameron Chan
Cam Gayleard
Carter Hofer
Nathan Penner