Coalinga College sees student-athlete success with residence halls and academic support

COALINGA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Baseball and softball seasons are successful afloat plaything astatine Coalinga College.

Jaydian Chavira is simply a pitcher for the Falcons, and Niliah Gruver is simply a catcher.

Both aren't primitively from Coalinga, but the tiny municipality has go the spot they telephone location portion they're pursuing their degrees.

"I emotion it. It's precise similar personalized, similar you cognize everyone. It's similar a family, and that's my favourite portion of it," Chavira said.

Chavira grew up successful Madera, and Gruver successful Fresno.

They some said being adjacent to location made it easier to move.

"Even though we're benignant of similar an hr retired from astir large cities similar Hanford oregon Fresno, it inactive benignant of gives that acquisition of being distant from location and surviving connected your own," Gruver said.

The 2 are getting the afloat student-athlete experience.

Unlike astir different assemblage colleges, Coalinga College is 1 of conscionable 13 successful the authorities that offers residence halls.

Vice President of Student Services Angela Tos says portion the dorms are unfastened to each students, the bulk of those who unrecorded successful them are student-athletes.

"We're truly arrogant of each of the things that we're capable to connection contempt our size," Tos said.

In summation to the residence halls, there's a communal abstraction with games and a lounge area.

The adjacent proximity to field besides allows speedy entree to signifier fields oregon classes.

"The tract is simply a two-minute locomotion distant from my room, truthful yeah, that's a large portion of it," Chavira said.

"We besides person a batch of unfastened bureau hours for our teachers that marque it truly casual for you to conscionable benignant of similar travel successful and inquire questions," Gruver said.

Tos believes that students staying connected field helps physique rapport among teammates and keeps students focused connected academics.

"We're truly excited due to the fact that the mean GPA among each of our athletes crossed each of the sports is simply a 3.2. They lone request a 2.0 to proceed to compete, but they're evidently doing overmuch amended than that," Tos said.

Tos says giving students the enactment to unrecorded connected field helps supply bid of caput for parents and helps students thrive.

"We conscionable privation them to permission present looking backmost connected this spot arsenic a spot wherever they had fun, they felt a consciousness of belonging and that they gained the skills they request to beryllium palmy successful immoderate opportunities they take to pursue," Tos said.

Coalinga College was named a 2025 Pathway Champion by the Campaign for College Opportunity for the 4th consecutive year.

It was recognized for having a higher fig than mean of students who instrumentality and implicit transfer-level English and mathematics courses during their archetypal year.

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