EASTON, Massachusetts (February 26, 2021) - Stonehill College's newly formed Athletic Task Force to Address Racial Injustice honored Black History Month with quotes from its student-athletes, athletic administration, and coaching staff members this week.
Task Force members were asked to submit a video or written quote on "Why Black History Month is important and what does it mean to you?"
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Stonehill's Athletic Task Force to Address Racial Injustice was formed during the summer of 2020 by Director of Athletics Dean O'Keefe, '94 as a first step in response to renewed attention on the unacceptable acts of systemic and institutional racism in our country. The Task Force will be comprised of student-athletes, coaches, athletic staff and faculty to promote equity, address those racial injustices in our community and to create forums for conversation, identify opportunities to take action, collaborate community members on various initiatives and advocate for the resources necessary to act.
With 23 intercollegiate sports, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. Stonehill has won the Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup six times, all coming within the last 15 years, after receiving the Cup for the winter sports season in 2019-20 while holding an overall lead in the standings prior to the remainder of the athletic calendar being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March. Stonehill won seven NE10 Championships during the 2019-20 academic year, with six programs earning NCAA Division II Championship bids. The Skyhawks have received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first ten years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. Stonehill has earned a 92% Academic Success Ranking (ASR) by the NCAA, which considers the academic success rate of the institution based on the graduation rate of student-athletes, good for third in the NE10 and 18th among all NCAA Division II institutions, with seven Skyhawk teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%.
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