{"id":104337,"date":"2016-07-18T07:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104337"},"modified":"2016-07-18T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:37:52","slug":"vcsu-teams-earn-naia-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=104337","title":{"rendered":"VCSU teams earn NAIA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-24632\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png\" alt=\"vcsuSports-small\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/vcsuSports-small.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi,VCSU) \u2013 The NAIA National Office announced today that 12 Valley City State University athletic teams have earned the NAIA Scholar-Team Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For a team to be considered for the NAIA Scholar-Team award, it must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as defined by the institution. The team grade point average includes all eligible varsity student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve of Valley City State\u2019s 14 athletic teams received the award. Among North Star Athletic Association teams, VCSU had the highest percentage of its teams earn the honor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>VCSU, University of Jamestown and Waldorf University all had 12 of their teams named NAIA Scholar-Teams, which was the top number in the NSAA.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU NAIA Scholar-Teams and their team GPAs are listed below.<\/p>\n<p><b>VCSU 2015-16 NAIA Scholar-Teams<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Women\u2019s Teams &amp; GPA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Softball \u2013 3.32<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Basketball \u2013 3.68<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Golf \u2013 3.18<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Indoor Track \u2013 3.29<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Outdoor Track \u2013 3.23<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Cross Country \u2013 3.20<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball \u2013 3.35<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Men\u2019s Teams &amp; GPA<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Baseball \u2013 3.02<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Golf \u2013 3.49<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Cross Country \u2013 3.67<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Indoor Track \u2013 3.28<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s Outdoor Track \u2013 3.28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Valley City\u00a0 (CSi,VCSU) \u2013 The NAIA National Office announced today that 12 Valley City State University athletic teams have earned the NAIA Scholar-Team Award.\u00a0 For a team to be considered for the NAIA Scholar-Team award, it must have a minimum 3.0 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104338,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104337\/revisions\/104338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}