PUC Chronicle

Issue date: 2/12/07 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Ryan Metz Members of the women's basketball team and recruits for next seasons men's team attended a meeting Friday afternoon to discuss a new monitoring system put into place immediately.

The women's basketball team, with recruits for next season's men's team joined faculty and staff in a meeting Friday concerning the new system of monitoring academics to be put in place for athletics.
Roy Hamilton, Vice Chancellor for Educational Opportunity Programs, created a system of progress reports to solve the academic ineligibility that plagued both teams last semester.
"Your stay here at PUC should not be six or eight years without getting a degree when everything is set up for four," said Hamilton.
Hamilton is part of the recent task force that was established to observe and aid the modifications to the basketball program.
The first of three progress reports have been sent to the professors of all basketball players and recruits, in which the professor will be asked how the student-athlete is doing on all accounts.
The first progress report is looking mainly at behavior and will include the number of missed classes by the student-athlete, whether or not the professor's office hours are being used and if homework is being turned in.
Any student-athlete with a 'C' average or below in a specific class will be notified and called in for a meeting.
The progress reports will be checked off as they are returned and any professor who does not meet the deadline will be contacted, according to Hamilton.
"Unfortunately, things like this have to happen for the university to realize that these athletes may need help because they are doing extra curricular activities," said women's basketball Head Coach Dennis Smith. "I think it helps the girls to see that the school does care about what happens to them. And we obviously needed it."
Interim Athletic Director John Friend believes this is a step in the right direction.

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