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Courtesy OF Michigan Tech Huskies
CLEVELAND – Michigan Tech’s Suzanne Sanregret has been named an NCAA Division II Athletics Director of the Year for 2020-21, announced Wednesday (Mar. 10) by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA).
Sanregret has held the position at her alma mater since 2005 and is one of four recipients of the award in NCAA Division II along with Tiffin’s Lonny Allen, Slippery Rock’s Paul Lueken, and Pennie Parker from Rollins College.
Sanregret is the first female athletic director at Michigan Tech and within the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and the first woman to serve on the NCAA DII Men’s Basketball Regional Ranking Committee.
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HOUHGTON, Mich. – Michigan Tech is one of 42 Division II schools to receive the NCAA Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence.
The award is presented to member schools that earn an Academic Success Rate of 90 percent or higher.
The Academic Success Rate is the percentage of student-athletes who graduate within six years of initial collegiate enrollment and includes virtually all Division II student-athletes.
Michigan Tech posts a 91 percent success rate across all programs.
“The academic success of our student-athletes is extremely important to Michigan Tech Athletics,” said Director of Athletics Suzanne Sanregret. “A 91 percent Academic Success Rate is a testament to the quality of the student-athletes that we recruit, the commitment from the coaches to focus on academics as well as athletics, and the holistic approach that we take as a department to support them. Also, considering the academi