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NOTE >> Women’s soccer was named the 2018-19 Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Women’s Team of Character at the annual Sport Management Conference Aug. 6. The award is based on academic achievement and especially on community service. >> Thresher volleyball earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Academic Award for the second straight year (2018-19), given to teams who maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher. >> Bethel is the highest ranked Kansas college or university in the Washington Monthly list of Top 200 Bachelor’s Colleges for 2019-20, at #12. These rankings are based on an institution’s contribution to the public good in three broad categories: social mobility, research and service. >> Sports Information Director Josh Booth ’16 was named KCAC SID of the Year for 2018-19 at the annual Sport Management Conference Aug. 6. Booth, who began as SID in 2016, was also promoted to assistant athletic director July 1. >> Bethel’s athletics department has earned the NAIA’s Champions of Character Five-Star Institution Gold Award (2018-19) for the second straight year. >> Bethel had 11 teams on the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) list of Scholar-Teams for 2018-19. Leading the Threshers was the golf team, with a cumulative team GPA of 3.578, closely followed by men’s tennis, who turned in a GPA of 3.526.
>> The 2019-20 school started off with campus energized by the largest class of incoming first-time freshmen in more than 30 years. As of the first day of classes, enrollment of first-year freshmen was 157, with 466 total full-time students (compared to 434 a year ago).
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>> Bethel’s exchange with UNICACH (Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas/University of Sciences and Arts, Chiapas, Mexico) continues, with the first UNICACH student on campus this fall (Eduardo Lopez Argueta) and with UNICACH professor of evolutionary ecology, Sergio Lopez Mendoza, at Bethel through February, along with his family. (For more, see page 20.)
