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There are more than 380,000 collegiate student-athletes across the country and nearly all of them will become professionals in a career other than sports, according to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA). Ensuring their readiness for life off the playing field requires a healthy balance between athletics and academics. Susquehanna, a Division III school, prides itself on striking this balance.
“Athletics, whether it’s varsity sports, intramurals or club sports, is an incredibly important vehicle for educating our students. There are extraordinary life lessons to be gleaned from sports participation, and often times, these lessons become manifest in other aspects of a student’s educational experience,” says President L. Jay Lemons. “Above all else,” says Pam Samuelson, director of athletics, “the number one priority for our student-athletes is to leave SU with a degree in hand. There are many factors that lead to an individual’s academic success, and our coaches and staff believe that we have a key role to play in the overall graduation rate of the university.” This fall Susquehanna will begin competing with institutions that place a similar premium on academics – the Liberty League for football and the newly formed Landmark Conference for all other sports. “We place a high value at SU on the academic success of our student-athletes in a rigorous academic environment, on teaching successful behaviors that can be utilized for a lifetime and providing a successful athletic experience in which the individual will feel proud. Our membership in both the Liberty League and the Landmark Conference align us with institutions that place a high value on these same things. In short, the student-athlete experience at SU is very similar to that at Union, Goucher, St. Lawrence and Drew,” Samuelson says. “As important as athletics are to some students, we are united in believing that academics take precedence. I hear our coaches say that to students all the time, and the nice thing is that at SU, they really believe it,” says Associate Professor of Biology Margaret Peeler, chair of the Curriculum Committee and Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee.
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