Kalamazoo Valley Women's Basketball

The academic beat goes on as well!

Excellence on the basketball floor - and in the classroom.  The  2006-07 Kalamazoo Valley women's basketball team carried the tradition forward with an another outstanding performance in the classroom.  The Western Conference Co-champs  won their way to the Regional final before succumbing to the Edison Chargers in the Regional championship game.

Their disappointed, yet proud coach, Ron Welch commented,  "This group has been a lot of  fun to coach. Their understanding of what's important and their competitiveness was impressive.  Even though we fell a few points shy of our goal of returning to Phoenix,  I think they will be able to look back and recognize how fortunate they were to be involved with the group of people on this team.  Truly a group with character.  The coaching staff  is very proud of them and what they have done in both arenas. It was an honor to coach them."

The Lady Cougar's team GPA for the year was an outstanding 3.237 - over a 3.0 for the fifth year out of the last six and had more players make Academic All State and Academic All Conference than any team in the state.  They were led by sophomore Academic All American candidates Charity Knight and Amber Peters.  12 out of 15 roster players registered 3.0+ GPA's.

A complete listing of honors for the sophomores can be found on the Strong Academic Tradition link on the women's basketball main page.

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