Jan. 9, 2017 (Patch.com) -- The district recently shared the average GPA for its winter and fall sports teams. The number are high, as you'll see below, and a big part of the school's success with student athletes can be traced to its new Athletic Director Dwight Hollins.
Hollins is a Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools' alumni and a former basketball player with Xavier University and was briefly signed to a contract by the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. He was also the poster-child for student-athletes that were solely focused on the athlete portion of their title.
"I did not have the strongest GPA in high school," Hollins said. "I was told I was not good enough to play basketball at the next level. I used that as my motivation to prove people wrong."
Before attending Xavier, Hollins spent two years at Hilbert, a junior college near Buffalo, New York. He says it was at that school that he learned the system he is now mimicking at Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools.
"It was there that the kinds of things that I’m doing now were done for me," he says. "The individuals there put me in a system of support."
What does a system of support mean? The answer is fourfold, really. Hollins says that there needs to be active participation from students, teachers, parents, and coaches.
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The overall athletic department GPA average is 3.10. The GPA per team follows below:
- Cheerleaders - 3.24
- Cross Country - 3.41
- Football - 2.53
- Golf - 3.24
- Boys Soccer - 3.30
- Girls Soccer - 3.86
- Girls Tennis - 3.75
- Volleyball - 2.88
- Boys Basketball - 2.83
- Girls Basketball - 3.41
- Bowling - 2.89
- Ice Hockey - 3.38
- Swimming - 3.88
- Wrestling - 2.42