Section Champions for Team Academics

JJhockeySS · Post by **JJhockeySS** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:09 pm

Congratulations to the following teams who were section academic champions:

1A Albert Lea
2A New Prague
3A Luverne
4A Totino-Grace
5A Orono
6A Morris/Benson
7A Hibbing/Chisholm
8A Crookston

1AA Rochester John Marshall
2AA Hill-Murray
3AA White Bear Lake
4AA Robbinsdale Armstrong
5AA Academy of Holy Angels
6AA Hopkins
7AA Proctor/Hermantown/Marschall
8AA Moorhead

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:13 pm

JJ - do you know who won the "State" Team Academic?

JJhockeySS · Post by **JJhockeySS** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:22 pm

ghs - The section champs were in LPH this week. State Champs are being announced today at the Ms. Hockey Banquet. I will post those after the banquet is over and the State Champs have been announced.

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:31 pm

Good call... I forgot those had yet to be officially announced yet!

Twinnesota · Post by **Twinnesota** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 2:53 pm

AL wins the most important award !!!!!!
Go tigers...if not the best athletically...the smartest.

T

22puck22 · Post by **22puck22** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:31 pm

I find it kind of weird how only 2 of the 16 teams listed made the state tournament..

badger69 · Post by **badger69** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:53 pm

22puck22 wrote:I find it kind of weird how only 2 of the 16 teams listed made the state tournament..

And both of those 2 teams are from the north in class A.

pondhockey · Post by **pondhockey** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:03 pm

I would venture to guess that many teams were within a fraction of a percentage below what the award winners were. Also, there may be one or two rostered players that struggle academically and therefore bring the quotient down. These may also be the players who benefit from being in a team sport; so while it is a great honor to be the top academic team, and I don't mean to take anything away from it, it may not be indicative of the what's really going on with the other non-award winning teams.

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:13 pm

There is a formula to determine this team GPA. It allows for players that aren't in the top academically to not be counted in the total - you take the top "x" number of players, etc.

pondhockey · Post by **pondhockey** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:26 pm

ghshockeyfan wrote:There is a formula to determine this team GPA. It allows for players that aren't in the top academically to not be counted in the total - you take the top "x" number of players, etc.

ghshockeyfan, thanks for clarifying that! I apologize for my misinformation. I'm sure you could write a book correcting all the misguided information that is in circulation around the arenas.

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:22 pm

pondhockey wrote:
ghshockeyfan wrote:There is a formula to determine this team GPA. It allows for players that aren't in the top academically to not be counted in the total - you take the top "x" number of players, etc.
ghshockeyfan, thanks for clarifying that! I apologize for my misinformation. I'm sure you could write a book correcting all the misguided information that is in circulation around the arenas.

To be honest, I've only learned the Academic guidelines well as my teams have had some issues with this over the years. One of the rules is that players only in grades 9-12 can be considered for GPA contribution. Where this can become a problem is when you need "x" number of players to create an average team GPA, but you don't have less than "x" number of kids in grades 9-12 on your section roster! This has happened to me at least 3x now but I respect the fact that the rule is in place to make certain that a minimum # of GPA's is used plus that teams shouldn't use sub-HS GPA's, etc. So... it isn't necissarily that my teams don't have decent academics, it's instead that they just aren't yet old enough to get the "x" kids needed for the average. We have to take "0's" for our last few GPA's in the average so that brings down the value - although to be honest I don't know that we'd compete even if we just averaged those that were eligible...

JJhockeySS · Post by **JJhockeySS** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:23 pm

Class A

Totino Grace

Class AA - This year there were co-champs:

Proctor/Hermantown/Marshcall & Holy Angels share the honors

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:23 pm

JJhockeySS wrote:Class A

Totino Grace

Class AA - This year there were co-champs:

Proctor/Hermantown/Marshcall & Holy Angels share the honors

I believe AHA has won quite a few consecutive academic championships??? WOW!!!

golfreak · Post by **golfreak** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:30 pm

any G.P.A. announced for those teams?

ghshockeyfan · Post by **ghshockeyfan** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:31 pm

Historical:

Section:
http://www.mghca.com/general/pdf/Team_A ... istory.pdf

State:
http://www.mghca.com/general/pdf/Team_A ... istory.pdf

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