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CASA GRANDE, Ariz. –<\/strong><\/b> The Grande Sports Academy academic staff would like to give special recognition for those student-athletes who earned a 4.0 GPA or above in the 2013 fall semester:<\/p>\nCountless hours were spent by GSA tutors and the student-athletes in the study hall room and one student’s success in the fall semester impressed Lauren Crum, who is the Director of Academic and Personal Development at the GSA.<\/p>\n
“We are very proud of all our boys who worked very diligently last semester to attain the 4.0 standing, but we are especially proud of one of our international students, Jose Miguel Tapia. This was Jose’s first semester in the U.S. and he worked extremely hard, was in study hall every day, worked with our tutors and was able to get A’s in all his classes. More than a handful of students improved their grades this past semester as well.”<\/p>\n
One of those players who improved their grades was Jose Hernandez, who has shown a steady GPA improvement in every semester since he joined the Academy in August 2012. The 4.0 GPA eluded Hernandez all last year as he was just one letter grade shy of achieving the perfect mark, and this past semester he achieved his first perfect mark and credits that to the GSA.<\/p>\n
“It’s all the hard work and all the resources we have here at the Grande. We have a great staff that can help us with anything we need and special tutors with every subject, which really helps out. Everything you need is hands on.”<\/p>\n
The following players earned a 4.0 in the 2013 fall semester:<\/p>\n
Victor Alvarez<\/strong> We are extremely proud of ALL of our boys\u2019 progress and hard work!<\/p>\n Click on one picture and a slider gallery will form. Photos in alphabetical order\u2026<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NOTE: “Inside the Grande” is a weekly feature in which we peer inside the inner workings of the Grande Sports Academy. We take a peek behind the curtains and discuss various interesting topics about the off the field success at the Academy. CASA GRANDE, Ariz. – The Grande Sports Academy academic staff would like to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,220],"tags":[277,239,448,414,345,248,21,273,283,553,132,432,125,301,254,280,466],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"grandesacademy","author_link":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/author\/grandesacademy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIshan Atit<\/strong>
\nJesus Avelar<\/strong>
\nCorey Baird (signed with Stanford University)<\/strong>
\nAdam Ferguson<\/strong>
\nJusten Glad (verbal commitment with Stanford University)<\/strong>
\nJose Hernandez<\/strong>
\nErik Holt (verbal commitment with UCLA)<\/strong>
\nAlex Knox<\/strong>
\nNicholas LaMonica<\/strong>
\nTevin Lowe<\/strong>
\nTrent Lowe<\/strong>
\nDillon Nino (signed with University of Dayton)<\/strong>
\nConor Orton<\/strong>
\nDuncan Storey<\/strong>
\nJose Miguel Tapia<\/strong>
\nEvan Waldrep (verbal commitment with Creighton University)<\/strong><\/p>\n