28th season at Texas Dr. Randa Ryan begins her seventh full season as the student services supervisor for the men's basketball program and her 28th year of association with The University of Texas. She was promoted in January 2005 to oversee the academic support staff and student services of all sports at UT with the exception of football. Since Ryan assumed supervision of the men's basketball team, the Longhorns have had a 3.0 or better cumulative team GPA (on a 4.0 scale) every semester except Fall 2005 and Spring 2006. UT posted a team grade point average of 3.29 during both the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters. Texas Basketball has received public recognition awards for its multi-year NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate (APR) in each of the last two years (2010 and 2011). The awards are given each year to teams scoring in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sport. UT has earned a perfect 1.000 score in each of the last two multi-year APR reports. In the classroom, Texas had four players earn a spot on the 2011 Academic All-Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Team. This marked the fourth straight year that the Horns led the league in Academic All-Big 12 honors in the sport of men's basketball. UT had six players earn the accolade in both 2008 and 2009 and five players claim a spot in 2010. D.J. Augustin was one of five players named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America University Division men's basketball first team. Augustin, who posted a perfect 4.0 GPA in both the Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 semesters, became just the fourth men's basketball player at Texas to earn Academic All-America honors. He also was the 15th player in NCAA history to earn both consensus first-team All-America honors and first-team Academic All-America accolades in the same season. A nationally-recognized author and lecturer on student-athlete health, exercise, nutrition and performance issues, Dr. Ryan was promoted to Assistant AD in 1992 and Associate AD in July 1998, before assuming her title of Senior Associate AD in March 2005. Prior to that, she served as women's athletics Performance Team Director (1988-92) and women's assistant swim coach (1985-88). Under her guidance and direction, The University of Texas was awarded the nation's highest honor for its Life Skills Program in December 1997, when The University received a "Citation of Excellence" from the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA). Ryan also has served on numerous national committee assignments, including the NCAA Life Skills Committee, the Division I-A Athletics Directors Life Skills Committee and the American College of Sports Medicine Women's Issues Committee. Ryan earned her master's and doctorate from The University of Texas. Her master's degree is in exercise physiology and her doctorate is a multidisciplinary degree in psychology, nutrition and exercise physiology. She also has done extensive research and programming regarding the mental health needs of elite athletes. Ryan and her husband, Steve Klepfer, have four sons, Seth, Rhett, Kasey and Shea. |
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