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2014–15 UMKC Kangaroos Men's Basketball Team
The 2014–15 UMKC Kangaroos men's basketball team represented the University of Missouri–Kansas City during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Kangaroos, led by second year head coach Kareem Richardson, played their home games off-campus at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). They finished the season 14–19, 8–6 in WAC play to finish in a tie for second place. They were victorious over the University of Texas–Pan American in the WAC tournament quarterfinal but were defeated by the University of Seattle in the semifinal. Previous Season The Kangaroos finished the 2013–14 season with a record of 10–20 overall, 7–9 in the WAC to finish in a tie for fifth place. Roster Schedule & Results , - !colspan=9 style="", Exhibition Season , - !colspan=9 style="", Non–Conference Regular Season , - !colspan=9 style="", Conference Regular Season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Athletic Conference
The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, Texas, Utah and Washington (state), Washington. Due to most of the conference's College football, football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season, 2012–13 season, left the NCAA's NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) and became one of the NCAA's eleven Division I non-football conferences. The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000. The WAC then added men's soccer. The WAC underwent a major expansion on July 1, 2021, with four schools joining. The conference reinstated football at that time, competing in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMG Academy
IMG Academy is a University-preparatory school, preparatory boarding school and sports training destination in Bradenton, Florida, United States. The organization is set across over 600 acres (243 ha) and features programs consisting of sport camps for young athletes, adult camps, a boarding school, including a postgraduate year, post-graduate/gap year, gap-year program, events, professional and collegiate training, group hosting, and corporate retreats. On April 25, 2023, Endeavor (company), Endeavor announced the sale of IMG Academy to BPEA EQT for $1.26 billion. On June 28, the deal was completed. History Nick Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1978. Sports company IMG (company), IMG purchased the academy in 1987. IMG acquired the youth division of the David Leadbetter (golf instructor), David Leadbetter Golf Academy in 1993 and added programs for soccer and baseball in 1994. Hockey and basketball programs were added in 2000 and 2001, respectively, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Academy
University Academy is a Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade college-preparatory Charter schools in the United States, charter public school in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. University Academy serves approximately 1,100 students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade who reside in the Kansas City Missouri Schools District (“KCMSD”). As a charter public school, University Academy admits students on the basis of a random lottery drawn from a pool of applicants. All applicants must reside within the boundaries of the Kansas City Missouri Schools District. History In 1998, the Missouri Charter School Law was adopted by the Missouri House and Senate and signed into law by the Governor. The law created a path for citizens to come together to operate public schools, but only within the boundaries of the Kansas City Missouri and St. Louis School Districts. Under the law, Charter public schools may be authorized by the two school districts or by various public universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brewster Academy
Brewster Academy is a co-educational independent boarding school located on in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, United States. It occupies of shoreline along Lake Winnipesaukee. With around 350 students, it serves grades nine through twelve and post-graduates. The 2023 full boarding tuition is $72,700. The current Head of School is Kristy Kerin. History The school was founded in 1820 by local citizens as a "building for higher education". Originally called the "Wolfeboro & Tuftonboro Academy", in 1887 it was renamed "Brewster Free Academy" in honor of benefactor John Brewster. For sixty years it charged no tuition fee to local residents, and, from its inception until 1964, the school served as the only high school in Wolfeboro, as well as serving day students from neighboring towns. In 1946, the academy begin to charge a small tuition, and Wolfeboro at its town meeting in March 1947 voted to pay local students' tuition fees. During the immediate postwar years, it was a popular s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawnee, Kansas
Shawnee is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. It is the seventh-most populous municipality in the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 67,311. History Territory of Kansas Before and after the Civil War, Shawnee served as a government road that connected Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley. During the mid 19th century, branches of the Oregon Trail and nearby Santa Fe Trail that passed through Olathe, Overland Park and Kansas City, Missouri saw settlers travel through the area. A Shawnee Indian mission had been established at the present site of Shawnee in 1831. Shawnee was laid out as a town in 1857. Kansas entered the union as a free state on January 29, 1861, to become the 34th state. The declaration of a free state added to the tension between the anti-slave abolitionists and pro-slave Confederate guerrillas. American Civil War In October 1862, Willam Quantrill ordered an attack on Shawnee, which saw the town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Soto High School (Kansas)
De Soto High School is a public secondary school in De Soto, Kansas operated by De Soto USD 232 public school district, and serves students of grades 9 to 12. The school is located near highway K-10 and Lexington Avenue on 91st Street. Around 900 students in grades 9–12 attend DHS. History The school first opened in 1919 as a small white wooden school in De Soto. Then the high school was moved to the present day City Hall and after the destruction of the original school the lower grades were moved to a building where district offices are today nearby the City Hall. The high school was then expanded to include the present day community center which has one of the oldest sunken gyms still in use in the Midwest. After the school experienced overcrowding, the present day middle school was built as the then high school building. The middle school was then moved to the City hall. Years later, after overcrowding yet again, the high school was moved to its present location. See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hogan Preparatory Academy
Hogan Preparatory Academy is a charter school in Kansas City, Missouri. As of March 2022 it had an enrollment of 450, of which 98 percent were African American. History The school was founded as a Catholic high school in 1942 and was named for John Joseph Hogan, the first bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City. It became a charter school in 1999. Athletics The school won its first state championship in boys' basketball in 2011 and won again in 2018. State championships Notable alumni *Class of 1948 - Joseph Hubert Hart, Catholic bishop *Class of 1951 - Dolores Michaels, actress *Class of 1969 - Sly James, Kansas City mayor *Class of 2008 - Marcus Denmon, basketball player *Class of 2011 - De'Vante Bausby, American football playerFeature Sports Article on Kansas City.com Retrieved Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State University, Fresno
California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers 60 bachelor's degree program, 45 master's degree programs, 3 doctoral degree programs, 12 certificates of advanced study, and 2 different teaching credentials. The university is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Fresno is a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) and is eligible to be designated as an Minority-serving institution, Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). The university's facilities include an on-campus planetarium, on-campus raisin and Grape#Table and wine grapes, wine grape vineyards, and a commercial winery where student-made wines have won over 300 awards since 1997. Members of Fresno State's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seward County Community College
Seward County Community College (SCCC) is a public community college in Liberal, Kansas. It offers a variety of programs and degrees, including associate degrees, technical certificates, and continuing education opportunties. The college offers training that prepares students for the workforce or for transfer to a four-year institution. History Established on December 29, 1967, its classes officially started on September 2, 1969. For the 2008–2009 academic year, Seward County Community College merged with Southwest Technical School to become Seward County Community College/Area Technical School. The name changed again in 2016 when the institution once again became Seward County Community College. The college retained the technical school programs and facilities as an academic division of the larger organization. Academics Seward County Community College academics are currently divided into five academic divisions: Allied Health; Industrial Technology; Agriculture, Business & P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argenteuil, France
Argenteuil () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. Argenteuil is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department, the seat of the arrondissement of Argenteuil. Argenteuil is part of the Métropole du Grand Paris. Argenteuil is the fourth most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris (after Boulogne-Billancourt, Saint-Denis, and Montreuil) and the most populous one in the Val-d'Oise department, although it is not its prefecture, which is shared between the communes of Cergy and Pontoise. Argenteuil shares borders with communes in 3 departements others than ''Val d'Oise'' : the Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine, and Seine-Saint-Denis departements. Name The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 697 as ''Argentoialum'', from a Latin/Gaulish root ''argento'' meaning "silver", "silvery", "shiny", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the river Seine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Romain Rolland (Goussainville, Val-d'Oise)
Lycée Romain Rolland is a senior high school in Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, in the Paris metropolitan area The Paris metropolitan area () is a statistical area that describes the reach of commuter movement to and from Paris, France and its surrounding suburbs. Overview In 2020, France's national INSEE statistical bureau introduced the concept "ai .... References External links Lycée Romain Rolland Lycées in Val-d'Oise {{France-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
