Over the past decade the Cal Lutheran men's basketball team has won nearly two-thirds of its games posting a 184-93 record. During that time the Kingsmen have won over 100 SCIAC contests, earned two conference titles and finished as league regular season runners-up five times.
The CLU athletics department will be honoring its finest athletes over the past 10 years by releasing Cal Lutheran All-Decade Teams throughout the upcoming summer. The reigning SCIAC Champion football team will be the first of 19 programs to have its all-decade team announced, schedule to be released on Monday, May 24.
The Cal Lutheran Scholar-Athlete Society held its annual banquet on May 8 and inducted 91 student-athletes for achieving at least a 3.4 cumulative GPA during the 2009-10 academic year. Seven CLU senior athletes were honored after making their fourth appearance in as many years.
Inside Gilbert Arena on Monday night members of all the Cal Lutheran athletic programs were honored for their accomplishments at the 2009-10 Student Athlete Recognition Event.
Cal Lutheran men's basketball team members Aaron Van Klaveren, Andy Meier and Cameron Mitchell each earned recognition as part of the 2009-10 SCIAC Men's Basketball All-Academic Team, announced earlier today. To be eligible a student-athlete must be of at least second year status and maintain an overall GPA of 3.5 or better.
With a 15-11 final overall record and second place conference finish the Cal Lutheran men's basketball team landed three players on the 2009-2010 All-SCIAC Team. Senior Kyle Knudsen was selected to the first team while senior Andy Meier and junior Greg Grimm nabbed second team honors.
After the first two regular season meetings were decided by five total points, needing a pair of overtimes to figure Friday night's playoff decision at Voelkel Gymnasium was little surprise. This time the decisive three-pointer was landed by Pomona-Pitzer's Adam Chaimowitz late in double overtime providing a 74-71 margin.
After earning national recognition to begin the season with a No. 14 D3Hoops.com preseason ranking, the Kingsmen basketball team is once again spotlighted in this week's Around the Nation column. Written off by most, CLU climbed the conference ladder to earn its spot in the SCIAC Tournament semifinal contest tonight at Pomona-Pitzer.
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