DATE DAY OPPONENT LOCATION TIME 9/8/2010 Wednesday Phoenix College Gene Autry 3:00 PM 9/12/2010 Sunday Angels Scout Team (SS) Tempe Diablo 10:30 AM 9/16/2010 Thursday South Mountain South Mountain 3:00 PM 9/19/2010 Sunday ASBA (DH) Gene Autry 10:00 AM...
The 2nd Annual Scrambling for Scholarships Night Golf Tournament is here!
GateWay Community College and Gecko Athletics invites you to grab your clubs and grab your friends for a unique night of food and fun at one of Scottsdale's finest golf courses.
Scrambling for Scholarships will benefit the talented student-athletes of GateWay Community College by raising funds for books, school supplies and sporting equipment.
You may register as an individual, double or foursome, or you can be a sponsor!
Our amazing, dedicated, intelligent and skilled student-athletes need your support and your financial assistance to make the most of their college experience!
Download the brochure for more information on how you can register your team or how you can become a sponsor!
If you have questions, contact Athletic Director Jaime Long by phone (602.286.8222) or by email (longj@gatewaycc.edu).
2nd Annual Scrambling for Scholarships
September 24 at 7pm
Continental Golf Course
The NJCAA National Office in Colorado Springs, Colo., announced on July 1 the names of the 2009-2010 NJCAA Distinguished Academic All-American and Academic All-American awards as well as the 2010 Spring All-American Teams.
Several Gecko athletes were honored: three individuals were honored as Academic All-Americans, two were honored as Distinguished Academic All-Americans and the Men's Baseball team and Men's Golf team were both honored as 2010 Spring All-Academic Teams for having an average 3.02 GPA and 3.16 GPA respectively.
The athletes that were honored for their academic achievements were:
Amanda Brown | 3.66 | Women's Soccer I Academic All American
Priscilla Coronado | 3.67 | Women's Soccer I Academic All American
Chad Gatlin | 3.69 | Men's Golf I Academic All American
Abby Haskell | 3.83 | Women's Soccer I Distinguished Academic All American
Doug Snover | 3.83 | Baseball I Distinguished Academic All American
Congratulations Geckos! GateWay Community College is proud of your academic diligence and athletic excellence!
All GateWay Community College student-athletes need to get a physical before they can begin training with their team.
Attached is a list of locations athletes can go to get physicals, ranging from $30-$35, over 10 locations across the Valley.
Pick the one nearest to you and get you physical completed in time for training! Go Geckos!
Physical Locations.docx
The Spring 2010 Athletics newsletter "GateWay Geckos: On the Move" is now avaliable!
Did you miss the Geckos at the playoff games? Check out the photos taken at the Regionals Playoff games vs the Chandler-Gilbert Coyotes!
Click here to access the pictures.
Tryouts for GateWay Community College Baseball team will be at 9:00am, Thursday, June 10, 2010. Sign-ups will begin at 8:30am. The baseball tryouts will be held at Gene Autry Park (Field #3). There is a $5.00 charge to attend this tryout. Each player must provide their own workout clothes, baseball spikes, and glove. GWCC Baseball will provide Baum bats, baseballs, and other needed equipment for use during the tryout.
Please inform any of your graduating seniors who you feel have been overlooked and you feel can play college level baseball. Any interested players may contact Head Coach Rob Shabansky at 602-286-8215 or email him at shabansky@gatewaycc.edu.
To be eligible for the baseball try-outs, please have the student/ athlete contact Coach Shabansky so that their name can be placed on the tryout list. Walk- ups will be allowed, however this provides GateWay with an idea of numbers attending. Also, each participant will need to complete an Assumption of Risk Form and a Tryout Liability Waiver Form. If the student/athlete is under 18 years of age, a parent must also sign these forms. The two forms will be available the day of the tryout, can be picked up in advance at GWCC in the athletics office (MA-1133), or we can email the forms directly to them. The form must be on hand and signed to be eligible to participate.
Please call or email with any questions.
After forcing a third game against the Chandler-Gilbert Coyotes last Saturday, the Geckos ended an extraordinary season with a close loss of 8-9. While they won't be advancing to the next stage of playoffs and nationals, the Geckos came away from the season with a shelf full of prestigious awards and huge goals for the next year.
Coach Rob Shabansky was recognized as 'Coach of the Year' by the Arizona Community College Athletics Association (ACCAC)
Doug Snover, Casey Maloney, and Josh Melendez made the Division II 1st Team and Alex Murrietta made the Division II 2nd Team. GateWay was the only team to have 3 players (the most of any school) make the Division II 1st Team.
In addition, Doug Snover and Josh Melendez both made the ACCAC 1st Team All-Conference and Casey Maloney made the ACCAC 2nd Team All-Conference.
Full listing of NJCAA All-Region Awards/teams
Full listing of ACCAC All-Conference teams
GateWay's head baseball coach, Mr. Rob Shabansky, was recently named 'Coach of the Year' for all of the Arizona Community College Athletics Conference. Shabansky lead the Geckos to the top seed in Region I Division II with a 23-15 record. The Geckos host playoffs this weekend at Gene Autry Park.
Check out the ACCAC Web site for all regional baseball/softball honors: http://www.pc.maricopa.edu/athletics/ACCAC/index.html
Congratulations to the Spring 2010 Gecko Baseball team who finished the season ranked 1st in their division!
After beating Mesa CC 9-2 on Tuesday, the Geckos secured the number one seed going into playoffs and are officially Division II Champions!
In addition, the team is tied for 4th in the ACCAC conference and ranked 16th nationally for Division II teams.
Playoffs are May 6-8 and will be hosted by GateWay at Gene Autry park. Please go out and support your Geckos!
Keep checking the blog for the playoffs schedule and for score updates as they are avaliable.
Congratulations and good luck, Geckos!
The GateWay Community College Baseball team is currently seeded 1st in the Arizona Community College Athletics Conference. After sweeping a double-header against the Scottsdale Community College Artichokes on Wednesday, April 21 the team is gearing up to play their final conference games against Chandler-Gilbert CC, Mesa CC, and Paradise Valley CC in the next few weeks.
Over the course of the season, the Geckos have won all their games against Scottsdale CC, Glendale CC, Paradise Valley CC, Arizona Western, Eastern Arizona and Pima CC. GateWay split (won one, lost one) against Phoenix College and, in their division, lost to Chandler-Gilbert CC and Mesa CC.
After they play their final conference games for seeding, the top four teams will play in Regionals in May. From there, the first place team will head to the Junior College World Series in Oklahoma from May 29-June 5.
On Monday, March 15, the GateWay Gecko Baseball team battled Cloud County Community College from Kansas. The game started out close but the Geckos managed to pull away from Cloud to take the win 7-4. The game was also Tweeted Live through Twitter (to follow us on Twitter go to http://twitter.com/GateWayGeckos).
To see all the photos from the win over Cloud County, please visit http://tinyurl.com/2010baseballvscloud.
Kevin Collinge, a freshman baseball player at GateWay Community College, competed March 11 in Kansas City for a national ESPN Contest. Last month, Collinge submited a video of his best impersonation of sports broadcaster Dickie Vitale and was picked to be in the Top 25 by ESPN staff. After a month of voting, Collinge was voted into the Top 15 by viewers & his fans and was flown out to Kansas City for the Big 12 College Basketball Tournament on March 10. Yesterday (March 11) he performed his impression in front of a live audience and against several other impersonators and the audience voted Collinge as their favorite. Collinge received a $10,000 check! CONGRATULATIONS KEVIN!
(more pictures/video/story to come)
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