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• Canisius College emphasizes developing its student-athletes academically
and socially as well as athletically.
• Golden Griffin student-athletes have access to a computer lab moderated
by a full-time academic counselor in the Koessler Athletic Center.
Student-athletes also have the ability to check out lap top computers
to use when traveling to competitions.
• Canisius student-athletes graduate from the college at a rate five
percent higher than the general undergraduate student population.
• The women’s basketball team and the volleyball team received
NCAA Division I Academic Performance Program public recognition
awards for 2006-07. The public recognition awards are presented to
the best academically performing teams that rank in the top 10 percent
within their sport in the NCAA Division I Academic Progress
Rate (APR). Both programs scored a perfect score of 1,000.
• Since 1980, 14 Canisius student-athletes have collected 23 CoSIDA
Academic All-America honors.
• Six former student-athletes – Tom Schott (football), Colleen
Sandor (softball), Diane Nowak (tennis), Anthony Zitnik (lacrosse),
Josh Zavitz (hockey) and Jamee Paoloemilio (synchronized swimming)
– have received NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships for their tremendous
work in the classroom and on the field of play.
• Basketball player Kevin Thompson served a two-year term on the
prestigious NCAA Student Advisory Committee. Aimee Claypool
(volleyball) represented Canisius at the 2001 NCAA Foundation
Leadership Conference, Rachelle Held (women’s lacrosse and soccer)
earned the honor in 2002, Mark Persick (ice hockey) attended
in 2003, Rob Krajewski (golf) represented the school in 2004 as
did Katie Scanlon (synchro swimming) in 2005 and Kiel Illg (men’s
lacrosse in 2006). Most recently, ice hockey goaltender Bryce Luker
represented the school at the annual summer conference.
• Six Griffs have been named Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
Scholar Athletes of the Year for their respective sport, and 68 studentathletes
were named to the MAAC All-Academic Honor Roll in 2006-
07.
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Above (top row): Aimee Claypool, Rachelle Held, (bottom row)
Rob Krajewski and Bryce Luker have all held the honor of representing
Canisius College at the NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference.
Canisius College CoSIDA Academic All-Americans
NAME SPORT YEAR TEAM MAJOR
Pat Aronson W. Basketball 1980 Second Physical Education
Tom Schott Football 1982 First Management
Tom Schott Football 1983 First Management
Mike Christel Track/X-Country 1983 First Math/Computer Science
Diane Nowak W. Tennis 1988 Second History/Economics
Mike Panepinto Football 1985 Second Management
Mike Panepinto Football 1986 First Management
Colleen Sandor Softball 1985 Honorable Mention Psychology
Colleen Sandor Softball 1986 Second Psychology
Ann Woloszynski Softball 1989 Third Mathematics
Ann Woloszynski Softball 1990 Second Mathematics
Jason Rausch Baseball 1991 Second Finance
Jason Rausch Baseball 1992 Second Finance
Jason Rausch Baseball 1993 Third Finance
Michelle Corrigan Softball 1993 Second Marketing-Mgt-Pre Law
Michelle Corrigan Softball 1994 Second Marketing-Mgt-Pre Law
Thais Alexander W. Basketball 1996 Third Political Science/English
Lori Graham Softball 1996 Third Physical Ed/Exercise Science
Lori Graham Softball 1997 Second Physical Education
Jeremy Ross Baseball 1997 Third Physical Ed/Exercise Science
Jake Coppola Football 1999 Second Mathematics
Jake Coppola Football 2000 First Mathematics
Lynn Stoczynski Softball 2001 Second Political Science
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