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BASE | Grades Are In: Winter Report
1/7/2020 10:11:00 AM | Baseball
MORAGA, Calif. — At 11:23 pm on January 3rd, the Gaels received a text with a clear note: grades are in. The way you do one thing is the way you do everything.
See the note sent to the team by Head Coach Greg Moore, congratulating the Gaels on their work but keeping the message alive: the work is not done.
Gaels,
Grades are in. It was a good semester in the classroom. In the macro, GPA's are overrated, but they are a sure sign of small imperative choices to push the Read, the Train and the Give. Work done when no one was watching, organization skills and plain effort reflects in 43 term GPAs. Nice mix of collective work and individual effort this Fall. Very "baseball" of you.
We did not break the team record for a semester as planned, but the results were impressive. Let's celebrate for a day, before the work begins again. The group's sustained effort over four months was notable:
77% of the returners improved their cumulative GPA's
60% of the team had GPA's 3.0 or better
38% of Freshman had 3.0 GPA's or better
7 GPA's of 3.5 or better (2 were freshman: Addison Berger and Josh Paino)
3 Grad Students combined for a 3.83 (Ty Madrigal, Matt Green, and Liam Steigerwald)
2 Gaels had 4.0 GPA's (Connor Linchey and Green)
Three reflections in the spirit of preserving the academic core and stimulating progress as students:
1. It takes everyone valuing learning to raise the academic tide. In a weekend series, recorded by stats and patrolled by umpires, twelve position players and seven pitchers may appear. Every member of the roster is needed to light the academic scoreboard. It started months ago in quiet study rooms patrolled by your self-discipline. It will start again on January 6th.
2. You took your discipline to an area that is not your passion. When I've asked, "Who loves school?" and just a few hands raise, we know your easiest enthusiasm is for batter's boxes and elevated pitching rubbers. Doing the hard things is a seed for doing great things.
3. It took a push to finish. As grades came in everyone watched to see if the probable D's would rise to C's, and B's would elevate to A's. Your grades showed the late semester effort that bumped many more up than we saw tail off. The answer to the semester's test is persistence.
Keep staying inside the ball, balanced and inside the apartment to get the chores done from day one. The spring is more challenging with airlines and airport backpacks. Plan now to up the skills and habits ante. There's a record out there to be broken. Good semester. Next pitch.
See the note sent to the team by Head Coach Greg Moore, congratulating the Gaels on their work but keeping the message alive: the work is not done.
Gaels,
Grades are in. It was a good semester in the classroom. In the macro, GPA's are overrated, but they are a sure sign of small imperative choices to push the Read, the Train and the Give. Work done when no one was watching, organization skills and plain effort reflects in 43 term GPAs. Nice mix of collective work and individual effort this Fall. Very "baseball" of you.
We did not break the team record for a semester as planned, but the results were impressive. Let's celebrate for a day, before the work begins again. The group's sustained effort over four months was notable:
77% of the returners improved their cumulative GPA's
60% of the team had GPA's 3.0 or better
38% of Freshman had 3.0 GPA's or better
7 GPA's of 3.5 or better (2 were freshman: Addison Berger and Josh Paino)
3 Grad Students combined for a 3.83 (Ty Madrigal, Matt Green, and Liam Steigerwald)
2 Gaels had 4.0 GPA's (Connor Linchey and Green)
Three reflections in the spirit of preserving the academic core and stimulating progress as students:
1. It takes everyone valuing learning to raise the academic tide. In a weekend series, recorded by stats and patrolled by umpires, twelve position players and seven pitchers may appear. Every member of the roster is needed to light the academic scoreboard. It started months ago in quiet study rooms patrolled by your self-discipline. It will start again on January 6th.
2. You took your discipline to an area that is not your passion. When I've asked, "Who loves school?" and just a few hands raise, we know your easiest enthusiasm is for batter's boxes and elevated pitching rubbers. Doing the hard things is a seed for doing great things.
3. It took a push to finish. As grades came in everyone watched to see if the probable D's would rise to C's, and B's would elevate to A's. Your grades showed the late semester effort that bumped many more up than we saw tail off. The answer to the semester's test is persistence.
Keep staying inside the ball, balanced and inside the apartment to get the chores done from day one. The spring is more challenging with airlines and airport backpacks. Plan now to up the skills and habits ante. There's a record out there to be broken. Good semester. Next pitch.
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