COLUMBIA UNION COLLEGE wants to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. May God bless you during all of 2007!

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Labels: Can Your College Do This?, events

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A BLOG IS so much more fun than a simple website, and one reason for that is blogs allow for interaction. With that said, we want to encourage you to send your comments on stories you read on this blog and the CUC Student Blog. Give us your feedback and let us know what you'd like to read more about.

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The Columbia Union College Pioneers baseball team participated in a three-day “Live the Lifestyle” clinic hosted by Dana Cavalea, the spring training assistant strength and conditioning coach for the New York Yankees, on November 9-12, 2006.
Cavalea’s camp focused on weight training, speed development, nutrition, sleep, academics, and offered the team a comprehensive approach to prevent injury and maximize performance.
“I couldn’t be more excited about starting this new program,” said senior Adam Melis, a Physical Education major. “To know that we worked with a guy who works with Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter is a great feeling.”
Cavalea provided the Pioneers with a year-round strength and conditioning plan and demonstrated exercises that targeted muscles and movements used specifically in baseball games.
“Dana did every one of the exercises with us until every player had it down,” said transfer student Bill Arpei, a junior Business major. “We didn’t move on to the next step until everyone did it right.”
CUC’s baseball team ended their successful season with a 34-22 record, the best in College’s history. Under the former coaching staff in 2005, the baseball team won just five games. However this year, the Pioneer coaches are looking ahead.
“This is just the beginning for our program and we need to approach the offseason differently than we did last year,” said second-year head coach Michael Ricucci. “We are not going to sneak up on anyone this season and we need to be better prepared.”
Riccuci believes that Cavalea’s program will give the team that opportunity.
“We do not have the luxury of having a practice/game facility on our campus, which could hinder our players development significantly,” said Ricucci. “We need to provide our players with every opportunity to get better and having a Yankee’s instructor pass along this knowledge and training regimen provides that opportunity.”
Cavalea owns and operates Major League Strength, a company that emphasizes the total development of an athlete’s life from strength training to mental health. He has worked with the Toronto Blue Jays, Pittsburgh Pirates, and other professional baseball organizations to improve player’s performance.

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Students from Ekamai seeing me off at the new Bangkok Airport (and Nat is in this picture!)

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THERE ARE MANY reasons why international students find Columbia Union College an attractive place to study: the location in Washington, DC, access to amazing internships at some of the top companies and government organizations in the world, the wide variety of ethnic restaurants near campus, and the numerous cultural activities that are available on a daily basis are but a few of those many reason.

There are also many different opportunities for international students at CUC. Not only can students study at the American capital during their undergraduate years, but high school aged students can come to participate in the Capital Summer Session, a three week program held each summer on the CUC campus, and students can also come with groups for custom-designed academic and ESL programs.

This week, representatives from CUC are in Asia talking with students about these and other opportunities. Here are some photographs from Hong Kong:


More to come...stay tuned.

Labels: Can Your College Do This?, recruiting

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