{"id":1898,"date":"2017-11-10T15:47:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2017-11-10T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:48:50","slug":"annual-pio-awards-ceremony-to-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Annual Pio Awards Ceremony to take place"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Putnam the Pio. Photo by Matt Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emily Peters
\n<\/strong>eep004@marietta.edu<\/p>\n

The second annual Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Pio Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday Nov. 11 in the Gathering Place from 5-7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The event, called \u201cThe Pios,\u201d is an award ceremony presented by the SAAC representatives and the idea was first brought up at a SAAC meeting last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are other SAACs within our conference who hold similar award ceremonies. We decided last year to incorporate our own which gives all of the teams a chance to get together and mingle,\u201d said faculty advisor Wendy Thieman.<\/p>\n

All student-athletes, and their guests, are invited to attend the ceremony. The hope is that everyone will attend the last home football game against the Otterbein Cardinals then head over to the Gathering Place for the presentation of the awards.<\/p>\n

The awards are based on the 2016-2017 athletic seasons. The awards that will be presented include Male\/Female Most Valuable Player, Male\/Female Rookie of the Year, Most Improved Team, and Team of the Year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach team may nominate one person\/team for each category. The coaches then will receive each team\u2019s nomination and will then vote for the final winner,\u201d Thieman said.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Marietta College volleyball team. Photo by Matt Peters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SAAC is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned committee and there are SAACs at the campus, conference, and national levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mission of the National Student-Athlete Advisory Committees is to enhance the total student-athlete experience by promoting opportunity, protecting student-athlete welfare and fostering a positive student-athlete image,\u201d according to the NCAA website.<\/p>\n

Campus level SAACs have many different functions. One of the functions that Marietta College\u2019s committee is carrying out through \u201cThe Pios\u201d awards event is that of building a sense of community with all sports teams on campus.<\/p>\n

MC\u2019s SAAC meets every other Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. in the Trustee\u2019s Conference room in the Dyson-Baudo Recreation Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Peters eep004@marietta.edu The second annual Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Pio Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday Nov. 11 in the Gathering Place from 5-7 p.m. The event, called \u201cThe Pios,\u201d is an award ceremony presented by the SAAC representatives and the idea was first brought up at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,3,5],"tags":[492,725,586,230,397,824,825],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-news","category-sports","tag-athletics","tag-emily-peters","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-pioneers","tag-saac","tag-thieman",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marcolian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_4692-1.jpg?fit=3061%2C2614&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}