|Peter Boettke|
Our basketball program at GMU is outstanding and Coach Larranaga is one of the best tacticians and motivators in the college game today. He also runs a first-class program with expectations of discipline and excellence on and off the court. The way Larranaga runs his program is true across the board for our athletic program. We are a mid-major program where the term student-athlete is still very accurate.
Last fall I had in my honors college course 2 stars on the women's volleyball team that made the NCAA tournament, and one of our top golfers on the men's team. They all earned very strong grades. In the past, I had a student-athlete who was one of the top wrestler's in his weight class in NCAA D1 and also one of the strongest students in my class. I am not saying every athlete that competes for GMU are stellar student-athletes, but quite a number of them are. As someone who also competed throughout college, the time commitment to play at that level is not trivial and to balance your training let alone the travel schedule involved with competing with your books takes discipline and a strong commitment to succeeding in both athletic and academic endeavors. And this is a joint effort of the AD, the coaches, and the athletes.
This past week I learned that one of my former Honors College students -- Dan Palumbo -- was just named Academic-Athletic All-District. Dan is set to graduate this week with a degree in finance with a GPA of 3.84 and is currently hitting .402 for the season.
Congratulations to Dan and good luck to the Patriots baseball team as they finish up their season and head into the CAA Tournament. And for those in Fairfax this weekend, they play VCU and I plan to make a game and cheer for Dan and his teammates, including my son Stephen's former HS teammate (basketball) Brandon Kuter -- there will not be any alley-oops from Boettke to Kuter on this playing field, but there will be a fastball that clocks upwards to 90mph, and obviously a first-basemen who not only knows the Modigliani-Miller theorem but how to hit a slider.
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