{"id":146719,"date":"2011-12-04T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=146719"},"modified":"2011-12-06T02:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T08:22:31","slug":"u-t-tyler-athletes-excellant-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=146719","title":{"rendered":"U-T Tyler Athletes Excellent Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=146720\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/U-T-Tyler-Sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"U-T Tyler Sign\" width=\"150\" height=\"91\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-146720\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTYLER &#8212; UT-Tyler President Dr. Rodney Mabry is expressing his pride in the academic performance of his school&#8217;s student-athletes. Howard Patterson is UTT&#8217;s vice president for auxiliary operations and intercollegiate athletics. In a letter to Patterson that was made  available to KTBB, Mabry writes, &#8220;Thank you for providing me with your latest data on grades of our athletes (Spring 2011) overall and by sport. What a wonderful report it is!  It shows an overall athletics GPA average of 3.00 . . . that&#8217;s just great, a full \u201cB\u201d average. For over 200 students?  Hard to believe!  Once again, your students easily exceeded the average for our student body as a whole. And, while there is room for improvement in individual sports, each one was far above satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Special thanks go to Head Coach Stephanie Webb and her women soccer players, though. They led all sports with a 3.51 average GPA. Wow! A whole soccer team??!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please tell your coaches how much I appreciate them working hard to recruit quality students and quality athletes who are most of all, quality people. I truly believe that our athletes are the backbone of UT Tyler&#8217;s student body and that is a rare thing for a university.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Howard, I cannot thank you enough for hiring such excellent coaches and I cannot thank \/them \/enough for taking their role as an important part of our academic mission so seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; UT-Tyler President Dr. Rodney Mabry is expressing his pride in the academic performance of his school&#8217;s student-athletes. Howard Patterson is UTT&#8217;s vice president for auxiliary operations and intercollegiate athletics. In a letter to Patterson that was made available to KTBB, Mabry writes, &#8220;Thank you for providing me with your latest data on grades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=146719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U-T Tyler Athletes Excellent Students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-29 21:23:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146719"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147061,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146719\/revisions\/147061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}