Forth Selected For NCAA Leadership Conference
4/19/2004 3:50:01 PM | Men's Basketball
SYRACUSE, NY -- Junior men's basketball player Craig Forth (Columbia/East Greenbush, NY) has been selected to participate in the 2004 NCAA Leadership Conference, May 30-June 3 at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex and Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. A total of 324 student-athletes from Division I, II and III national Student-Athlete Advisory Committees were picked from 1,175 nominations.
Forth has started all 102 games of his SU career. This past season he averaged career-highs of 5.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. He ranks eighth in career blocked shots at Syracuse with 169.
Forth earned third-team Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in 2003-04. He was a first-team District 1 All-Academic pick by CoSIDA in 2002-03 and 2003-04 and has been named to the SU Athleic Director's Academic Honor Roll in each of his five semesters. He also earned BIG EAST Conference Academic All-Star recognitino the past two years.
An inclusive education and geography major, Forth has a 3.855 cumulative grade-point average.
Syracuse student-athletes who have participated in the NCAA Leadership Conference previously include: Spencer Raymond, swimming, 2003; Tim Adrian, track & field, 2002; Kyle Johnson, football, 1998.
The NCAA Leadership Conference provides NCAA student-athletes with a forum to openly discuss issues that may affect them on their campuses and in their communities, while also providing them with the opportunity to enhance their leadership, communication, decision-making and problem-solving skills. The leadership conference also promotes better communication among student-athletes, coaches, administrators, faculty and communities. The five-day leadership conference consists of daily exercises and activities to help the student-athletes develop as individuals and as contributing members to a group.
The conference is an outreach of the successful CHAMPS/Life Skills program. Many of the student-athletes who participate are members of their conference and campus Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAACs) . Each NCAA member institution that has a CHAMPS/Life Skills program is encouraged to nominate student-athletes from their campus for the annual leadership conference. Todd Wyant, Syracuse's Associate Athletic Director for Student-Athlete Services, coordinates the CHAMPS/Life Skills program at the University.
