For the 6th time in the last seven years the QU Soccer Hawks have been awarded the Athletic Director’s Academic Achievement Award as the QU Men’s Athletic Team with the highest GPA. Every graduating Senior had over a 3.0 GPA, and every Senior graduated within 4 years which is the norm at Quincy University. Of the 18 returning players 15 had GPA’s over 3.0 with 8 of them being over 3.5!
If I may, let me put in a plug with any potential employer receiving this. If you should be looking for a young, intelligent, quality employee you might be well served with one of our graduates. Two earned their Degree in Business Management; two in Marketing; one in Finance; and one in Chemistry. Should you have an interest in any of these get back to me and I’ll put you in touch with them.
GO HAWKS! FLY HIGH!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
QUINCY UNIVERSITY MEN’S SOCCER: SPRING RECAP…
The spring here in Quincy was pretty cold and WET, and interfered with a lot of our soccer plans. Our previous blog was the set up for our initial spring game with the St. Louis Lions. It was cancelled due to extremely wet grounds at the Lion’s stadium and we couldn’t come up with a make up date. Due to the uncertainty of whether games were going to be played or not or if they were going to get switched to another field, and other pressing matters, weekly blog updates were not sent out. Below is a recap of what happened with the Soccer Hawks during spring 2009.
Our April 4th game with William Woods was supposed to be played there, but at the last minute got switched to our QU North Campus Field because the ground at William Woods was unplayable. The game ended in a 0-0 tie with QU having the better of the play throughout the contest. The Hawks had several very good scoring chances but came up empty in the goals column either due to a very nice save by the Woods goal keeper or because we just didn’t convert on a few real good opportunities.
After taking off Easter weekend the Hawks were back in action up in Macomb against WIU on April 18 and lost 0-1 on a goal in the first 5 minutes of action. After converting for a goal on their first shot the WIU Leathernecks had perhaps only one or two more decent opportunities to score throughout the whole game. While the Hawks played quite well defensively (except for the one hiccup on the opening goal) and through the midfield they never launched a serious attack on the WIU goal. It was a real hard fought game with the Hawks standing in toe –to-toe with WIU’s NCAA Division I side.
The Hawks wrapped up the spring schedule with a 0-0 home match on April 25 against neighboring HLG. Hannibal LaGrange had finished the fall 2008 season as the Number 3 ranked NAIA team in their National Poll at the end of the regular season and had lost in the opening round in the NAIA National Tournament on PK’s after drawing through overtime. Once again the Hawks did well defensively never allowing HLG even a glimpse of a scoring chance. However, once again the Hawks did not put any real pressure on the HLG keeper either so the game was a battle mostly between the 18’s. After the contest a PK shoot-out was held just for the practice of it and the Hawks prevailed 3-2.
One of the Hawk’s objectives during the short spring season was to shore up their defense and lessen the number of goals allowed. By giving up only 1 goal in their three games the Hawks responded well. Hopefully in the fall the squad will continue to be stingy on defense and even rack up a number of shutouts. However, they are going to have to work better at producing a lot more scoring opportunities than they did in April and May and converting on many of them if they are going to launch a successful run at the elusive GLVC Championship they’d so like to claim.
On May 4th the Mart Heinen Club hosted their annual Student-Athlete Appreciation Dinner and gave out several awards. Senior Bane Isailovic was honored with the Bro Clete Award given annually to the Senior Athlete with the best combination of athletic and academic ability. Dan Merkel received a H.A.W.K. Award recognizing him for all the work he put into Hawk soccer practices for the past four years and for being a great teammate with a terrific attitude. Bane, Dan and Mike DiSalvo, Steve Miller, Justin Bowser, and Kyle Koenig as graduating seniors all received plaques with the 2008 team photo on them as souvenirs from the Mart Heinen Club as their thank you for being QU athletes.
GO HAWKS…MAKE ’09 THE YEAR!
More later…
Our April 4th game with William Woods was supposed to be played there, but at the last minute got switched to our QU North Campus Field because the ground at William Woods was unplayable. The game ended in a 0-0 tie with QU having the better of the play throughout the contest. The Hawks had several very good scoring chances but came up empty in the goals column either due to a very nice save by the Woods goal keeper or because we just didn’t convert on a few real good opportunities.
After taking off Easter weekend the Hawks were back in action up in Macomb against WIU on April 18 and lost 0-1 on a goal in the first 5 minutes of action. After converting for a goal on their first shot the WIU Leathernecks had perhaps only one or two more decent opportunities to score throughout the whole game. While the Hawks played quite well defensively (except for the one hiccup on the opening goal) and through the midfield they never launched a serious attack on the WIU goal. It was a real hard fought game with the Hawks standing in toe –to-toe with WIU’s NCAA Division I side.
The Hawks wrapped up the spring schedule with a 0-0 home match on April 25 against neighboring HLG. Hannibal LaGrange had finished the fall 2008 season as the Number 3 ranked NAIA team in their National Poll at the end of the regular season and had lost in the opening round in the NAIA National Tournament on PK’s after drawing through overtime. Once again the Hawks did well defensively never allowing HLG even a glimpse of a scoring chance. However, once again the Hawks did not put any real pressure on the HLG keeper either so the game was a battle mostly between the 18’s. After the contest a PK shoot-out was held just for the practice of it and the Hawks prevailed 3-2.
One of the Hawk’s objectives during the short spring season was to shore up their defense and lessen the number of goals allowed. By giving up only 1 goal in their three games the Hawks responded well. Hopefully in the fall the squad will continue to be stingy on defense and even rack up a number of shutouts. However, they are going to have to work better at producing a lot more scoring opportunities than they did in April and May and converting on many of them if they are going to launch a successful run at the elusive GLVC Championship they’d so like to claim.
On May 4th the Mart Heinen Club hosted their annual Student-Athlete Appreciation Dinner and gave out several awards. Senior Bane Isailovic was honored with the Bro Clete Award given annually to the Senior Athlete with the best combination of athletic and academic ability. Dan Merkel received a H.A.W.K. Award recognizing him for all the work he put into Hawk soccer practices for the past four years and for being a great teammate with a terrific attitude. Bane, Dan and Mike DiSalvo, Steve Miller, Justin Bowser, and Kyle Koenig as graduating seniors all received plaques with the 2008 team photo on them as souvenirs from the Mart Heinen Club as their thank you for being QU athletes.
GO HAWKS…MAKE ’09 THE YEAR!
More later…
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