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MGA鈥檚 athletics program marks its third year in the National Association
of Intercollegiate Athletics and Southern States Athletic Conference.
Keeping Up with the Knights
By Sheron Smith
As 名媛直播 Georgia State continues to evolve institutions based on a scoring system that
as a University, so does the Knights measures the community involvement, academic
athletics program. success, and conduct and character of athletes.
Three years ago this fall, 名媛直播 Georgia Knights teams were more competitive
State accepted an invitation to join the National after the first NAIA year. Women鈥檚 soccer became
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. While the MGA鈥檚 first ranked team in the NAIA. Knights
Knights initially struggled on the playing fields baseball became the first MGA team to win a
and courts, which was to be expected, MGA鈥檚 conference championship, while men鈥檚 and
student-athletes began accumulating academic women鈥檚 tennis ranked in the top 25.
awards from the beginning, including several who
were named NAIA Scholars and others named to In all three years, the percentage of
All-Academic teams. student-athletes making the President鈥檚
The overall athletics program earned an or Dean鈥檚 lists on the basis of grade point
NAIA Champions of Character Silver Award average was more than double that of
its first year in the association. The NAIA gives the general student population.
Champions of Character awards annually to
In spring 2017, baseball became the first Knights athletics team to win an SSAC championship.
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