The primary purpose of this commitment is to support student-athletes in their progress toward intellectual development and the goal of graduation. Oswego's Life Skills Program offers a variety of services that help students to achieve academic success. These programs and services include:

Academic Awards of Excellence for Student-Athletes: Student-athletes with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher will be recognized at this program. The recipients of conference, state and national awards also will be recognized.

Academic Monitoring Program: All special admission student-athletes, student-athletes who are currently on academic warning, and those student-athletes who have been reinstated from academic disqualification, are required to participate in the Academic Monitoring Program. The program consists of weekly meetings with the academic coordinator or a graduate assistant. The student will discuss his/her academic performance in enrolled coursework, time management, study skills and any other issues that impact academic success.

Supervised Study Hall Program: During the fall semester, all special admission student-athletes, student-athletes on academic warning and those reinstated from disqualification are required to attend the weekly study hall program. The number of hours required for each student-athlete to attend study hall in the second semester will depend on his/her academic performance in the first semester.

Academic Advisement: All students are assigned an academic advisor within the academic department of their major. The academic coordinator for student-athletes (213 Laker Hall) will advise new student-athletes during the Summer Orientation programs, and continue to do so until they have chosen a major. Undeclared students may also seek advisement from a staff member within the Student Advisement Center (501 Culkin Hall).

In addition, the athletics department partners with other campus offices and programs to support learning opportunities for student-athletes. To learn more, visit our academic support services for athletes page.

For more information, contact Ryoko Sekiguchi, academic/life skills coordinator, at sekiguch@oswego.edu.

Oswego recognizes outstanding performance by its student-athletes in the classroom as well as in competition. Student-athletes honored for receiving the highest grade-point average in their sports for 2005-06 included, front from left, Kelly Bootier (women's lacrosse), Carolyn Agle (softball), Lyndsey Marquit (women's basketball), Ashley Distin (women's soccer), Shelly Dann (women's swimming and diving), Whitney Lash (volleyball) and Jared Teal (wrestling), and in back from left, Kase Kinney (men's basketball), Weston Fellows (cross country), Bryan Gent (ice hockey), Greg Keenan (men's soccer), Corey Stark (men's swimming and diving), Danielle Koskey (women's track and field) and Alek Krenichyn (men's track and field). Also recognized for top GPAs, but not present for the photo, were Charles Galuski (baseball), Megan Grieves (women's cross country), Jeffrey Kattrein (golf), Kaitlin Daniels and Jennifer Tordy (field hockey), John Schumacher (men's lacrosse) Todd Wojnowski (men's tennis) and Jodi Castello (women's tennis).