Athletic Director's Honor Roll for 493 Student-Athletes -- TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

Louisville Places 493 Student-Athletes on Athletic Director's Honor Roll

The Fall 2022 semester proved to be another great success for Louisville student-athletes with 493 of them being placed on the Athletic Director's Honor Roll. Collectively, all of the Louisville student-athletes combined for a 3.240 GPA, marking it the 24th straight semester of a 3.0 or better mark for Louisville.

412 of those student-athletes has a 3.25 GPA or higher, giving them Red and Black Scholar honors. 89 student-athletes posted a 4.0 GPA.

With a 3.810 team GPA, Louisville field hockey posted the highest GPA of all sports.

Women's basketball, field hockey, women's golf, lacrosse, and volleyball were part of eight Louisville programs with a perfect Graduation Success Rate (GSR).

Women's tennis posted a 3.415 team GPA with eight members on the AD Honor Roll.

Women's swim and dive posted a 3.467 team GPA with 19 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Women's Basketball posted a 3.393 team GPA with 11 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Volleyball posted a 3.465 team GPA with 16 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Lacrosse posted a 3.512 team GPA with 35 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Field hockey posted a 3.810 team GPA with 22 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Women's cross country and track and field posted a 3.50 team GPA with 46 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Rowing posted a 3.132 team GPA with 30 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Women's golf posted a 3.725 team GPA with 11 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Softball posted a 3.742 team GPA with 19 members on the AD Honor Roll.

Women's soccer posted a 3.731 team GPA with 29 members on the AD Honor Roll.

While we spend a majority of our time covering the highlights and successes of what happens on the court and field, we also love to boast about the academic successes of Louisville women's athletes.

While trying to maintain a high GPA can be difficult for any college student, adding the athletics part to that makes these accomplishments that much more impressive.

With women's basketball hitting the road for a couple games, there has been talk of the Cardinal Marching and Pep Band hosting a watch party as Louisville visits Florida State on Sunday. The event is set to be hosted at the George Howe Red Barn on campus. I've known George for several years now and he's an absolutely awesome person. I will gather more information on the event and provide more details on Thursday.

Happy Tuesday and Go Cards!

Jared

Academic accolades -- Olympic/Former Cards News; FRIDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

FRIDAYS WITH DARYL

Welcome to the holiday weekend, finally! Was yesterday not the Monday-est Thursday ever?? 

There is not a whole lot of UofL athletics scores or events to report on in mid-June.  The academic achievements for each program are rolling in and are most certainly wonderful for the programs ...but aren't the most thrilling topic for our readers to read about so I'll just give the shout out to the players who excelled in the classroom.

Academic Achievements

To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.0 grade-point average for the previous semester and a 3.0 cumulative average during one's academic career. Athletic achievements during the most recent season are also considered in selecting the All-ACC Academic Team. We've covered Field Hockey and Lacrosse academic excellence in earlier articles this week. Some others to note: 

-- University of Louisville women's golfers Lauren Hartlage and Hana Ryskova were named to the All-ACC Women's Golf Academic Team, the league announced on Thursday.

-- Volleyball's Amaya Tillman, Anna Stevenson, Aiko Jones, Tori Dilfer and Anna DeBeer join the best of the ACC scholar-athletes. ACC Champion Louisville and Notre Dame lead the league with five players each on the academic team.

Global Cards

The University of Louisville sent two swimmers to the semifinals of the U.S. Olympic Trials at the CHI Health Center in Omaha.

Mallory Comerford turned in a 54.43 in the semifinals of the 100M freestyle and teammate Kelsi Dahlia posted a time of 54.46. Olivia Smoliga and Natalie Hinds tied for the top two spots with a time of 53.55.

Dahlia earned her slot in the semifinals of the 100M Freestyle after posting a 54.96 at her morning swim. Comerford made the cut as well with 54.8. Other prelim swims in this event included Gabi Albiero who posted a time of 55.86, Casey Fanz who went 56.29 and Tristen Ulett, who turned in a 56.37.

In the prelims of the 200 breaststroke this morning, Adeline Farrington stopped the clock at 2:35.12 and Morgan Friesen posted a time of 2:31.87.

Former Cards news

Let me start this segment with the reminder that we desire to share the *joy and excitement* of UofL women's athletics here at Cardinal Couple.  I realize that bad things do happen to and by people who come through the program.. and yes, I did see the comment from yesterday's post asking why the story of former Cardinal great, Shoni Schimmel wasn't mentioned. 

After group discussion on the news, we decided to omit sharing the story at the time.  I will, however, l share a snip of the info below as it is news to report. Many other sources have covered this incident in about the same matter.  

It is important to note that we at Cardinal Couple are not excited about this story and we can all agree that we hope Shoni gets the help she needs.  We will monitor the story as the facts unfold. 

PENDLETON — Former WNBA All-Star Game MVP and Louisville All-American guard Shoni Schimmel is being held in the Umatilla County jail on multiple charges, including felony assault and criminal mischief.

Schimmel, 29, was arrested early Monday and remained in the Umatilla County jail on $48,750 bail. The Sheriff’s Office website also lists several misdemeanor charges including domestic abuse, menacing, reckless endangerment and harassment.

Some other crappy news to share...

Former Cardinal star, Myisha Hines-Allen suffers knee injury Thursday night Mystics vs Dream.  The star forward was averaging 14 points and 7 rebounds in 26.1 minutes of play per game before leaving halfway through the second quarter.  Hines-Allen had 9 points, 4 rebounds and an assist in 10 minutes on the floor before exiting and not returning for the rest of the game.  Let's hope it is nothing serious and she can return to the floor as soon as possible.  She has proven to be a vital piece to her team. 

CARDINAL COUPLE RADIO HOUR PODCAST

As far as i know, we should have a full crew on radio this weekend. With not a lot of games going on it could get weird.  Paulie will most likely have another Cardinal Couple Radio Hour Podcast Quiz for us in the second half of the broadcast -- can anyone de-throne Jared as the back-to-back-to-back winner of these? These can be fun, even if it's just for the off-the-rails and irrelevant chatter between Paulie and the quiz contestants. 

There is a Cardinal Couple You Tube Channel where you can hear past podcasts: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Lb0KWORvn2eARnCZfjxww/videos

As always, 

Go Cards!

~Daryl