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10th women’s soccer player to be named All-Conference all four years
of her career, she was also named a first-team All-American by the
D2CCA and was named the PBC Tournament Most Valuable Player.
She started in all 26 games for the Cougars with seven goals and
four assists and anchored a defense that led the PBC in goals allowed
average.
Rolling is the second Cougar in the last four years to be named the
PBC Scholar-Athlete of the Year after Kayla Brown won in 2013. She is
the fourth CSU female overall to claim the honor.
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Columbus State Wins 2015-16 PBC Commissioner’s
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HILTON HEAD, SC -- Columbus State University was presented with the
2015-16 PBC Commissioner’s Cup on Tuesday night in Hilton Head,
given annually to the best overall athletic department as defined by
conference standings. The Cup is the fifth for the Cougars overall, the
first since 2010-11. Lander finished second in the standings with
Armstrong State in third and Georgia College fourth.
Columbus State had an exceptionally successful 2015-16 season
with conference championships in women’s soccer, baseball and men’s
golf along with a co-championships in men’s and women’s basketball.
The CSU women’s tennis and men’s track & field each had second-place
finishes while the men’s and women’s cross country teams were each
third. The Cougars earned 113.5 out of a possible 150 points for a .757
rating, more than four-tenths above their nearest competitor.
Lander earns their highest Commissioner’s Cup finish ever with a
.715 rating this season. The Bearcats were PBC co-champions in women’s basketball and, remarkably, finished in the top three in five other
sports. Lander finished in the top half of the PBC standings in nine of
their 10 championship sports.
The PBC Commissioner’s Cup is determined by calculating the
number of points possible to each school, given the number of sports
they participate in, divided by the number of points earned during the
year. Points are determined by placement in the final regular-season
standings in each of the PBC’s 15 championship sports.
Columbus State Wins Second Straight Presidents’
Academic Award
HILTON HEAD, SC -- Columbus State University was presented with
their second straight Presidents’ Academic Award at the league’s
annual meetings in Hilton Head, S.C., on
Tuesday night. The award recognized
excellence in academics concerning all of an
institution’s student-athletes.
At the end of the academic school year
the Peach Belt Conference asked each of the
league’s 14 members to submit an average
GPA for the undergraduate student body
and a GPA for all student-athletes. These
two numbers were used to determine each
institutions’ GPA ratio that identifies which
school’s athletes are performing most ahead
of the curve in comparison to the student
body. The schools are not measured against
one another, just their athletes to their students. Columbus State had the highest ratio
at 1.1684, and 13 of the 14 PBC member
institutions the student-athletes had, on average, a better GPA than
the general student body.
The President’s Academic Award is part of a larger conference
program to highlight the accomplishments of PBC student-athletes in
the classroom as well as on the field.
UNCP’s Perez Wins PBC-SunTrust Minority Postgraduate Scholarship
HILTON HEAD, SC – UNC Pembroke track and field standout Janivette
Perez has been named the 2016 recipient of the PBC-SunTrust
Minority Postgraduate Scholarship. The scholarship provides financial
support to a deserving Peach Belt minority student-athlete in pursuit
of a postgraduate degree.
“I am honored by this opportunity,” said Perez. “I am beyond
thankful to the Peach Belt and SunTrust for choosing me as the scholarship recipient. To know that the Peach Belt and SunTrust are backing
me up as I go forward into postgraduate work is a big deal to me and I
am very grateful.”
Perez graduated on May 7, 2016, with a degree in exercise
physiology. A four-year athlete on the Braves track & field team, she
set school records in the indoor 60 meters and outdoor 100-meter,
200-meter and 4x100-meter relay team. She also held the PBC record
2015-16