Hicksville Resident, St. Anthony’s Grad
Part of Honors Group
Fordham University Athletics announced that 57 percent of its varsity student athletes, including Hicksville resident and St. Anthony’s alum Craig Staub, earned a cumulative GPA (grade point average) of 3.0 and above, the largest number ever at Fordham. Staub, a six-foot-one, 205-pound sophomore, is listed as a defensive back on the school’s website.
In all, 319 of 561 varsity players, including 12 students from Long Island, and 19 of the 23 varsity teams had a B average and higher during the recently completed Fall 2010 semester.
In addition, 33 athletes (6.1 percent) had GPA’s of 3.7 and above; no team had lower than a B- average (2.75 GPA).
“The total success of our student athletes is our number one priority,” said Executive Director of Athletics Frank McLaughlin. “We are extremely proud of their record academic performance.”
Fordham’s scholar athletes were honored at the recent “Breakfast of Champions” at Rose Hill. As a freshman last year, Staub was also named to the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to approximately 14,700 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in Westchester, the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre at Heythrop College in the United Kingdom.
