{"id":16252,"date":"2010-07-29T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=16252"},"modified":"2013-04-10T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:50:19","slug":"haeger-honored-by-flagstaff-sports-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/haeger-honored-by-flagstaff-sports-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Haeger honored by Flagstaff Sports Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days after the Arizona Cardinals arrive in the cool mountain air at Northern Arizona University, President\u00a0John Haeger<\/strong>\u00a0will be inducted into\u00a0Flagstaff Sports Foundation<\/a>\u00a0Hall of Fame for his continued efforts to enrich the partnership between the football team, university and Flagstaff community.<\/p>\n

The three year\u00a0contract extension<\/a>\u00a0signed this June marks the continuation of a positive partnership between Northern Arizona University and the Cardinals. NAU has hosted the Cardinals\u2019 training camp since 1988, bringing the energy of the NFL within reach of thousands of fans in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Haeger has been instrumental in the Arizona Cardinals\u2019 continued appearance in Flagstaff and has just completed a three-year contract to have them train at Northern Arizona University every year,\u201d said John Birkett, president of Flagstaff Sports Foundation.<\/p>\n

Haeger will be honored for his long-standing relationship with the team and desire to make the Cardinals\u2019 stay in town a summer highlight. He also is a steadfast supporter of\u00a0NAU athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Flagstaff Sports Foundation will host the third annual Hall of Fame Banquet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 3, at the High Country Conference Center. RSVP to\u00a0SportsFoundation@q.com<\/a>\u00a0for tickets or call John Birkett at (928) 606-0677 for group reservations. Cash and check payments will be available at the door.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Last spring Lumberjack athletes recorded a cumulative grade point average of 3.07 and exceeded academic standards set by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in their\u00a0Academic Progress Rate report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHosting the Arizona Cardinals is just one way NAU expands its horizons beyond the traditional university mission,\u201d Haeger said. \u201cWe enjoy the excitement the Cards bring to the campus each summer and look forward to continuing our relationship with the team and their fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBS Sports<\/a>\u00a0writer Clark Judge ranked NAU as the NFL\u2019s No. 1 training camp, saying: \u201cClean, clear air. Picture-postcard town. Nice people. Mountains to the north. Evergreens everywhere. And the Cardinals in the middle of all of it. What’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you what: Absolutely nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cardinals\u2019 stay brings an estimated $2 million in economic activity to northern Arizona and further defines NAU and Flagstaff\u2019s \u201cOne Community\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n

Former NAU President\u00a0Eugene Hughes<\/strong>\u00a0kicked off the first training camp when the Cardinals\u2019 franchise moved to Arizona. President emeriti\u00a0Clara Lovett<\/strong>\u00a0continued to build the partnership, welcoming the team to the university from 1994-2001, when Haeger took the reins.<\/p>\n

Four other prominent individuals will be inducted in this year\u2019s Hall of Fame, recognized for their contributions to the Flagstaff community through sports.<\/p>\n

Former NAU Ice Jacks hockey coach\u00a0Doug Allan<\/strong>\u00a0will be recognized for his success both on the ice and in shaping players to be dedicated, hard working and respectable leaders.<\/p>\n

Mike Nesbitt<\/strong>, the Lumberjacks\u2019 head athletic trainer for 36 years and professor of exercise science, will be honored for his dedication to athletic training education in Arizona, including developing a bachelor\u2019s degree in athletic training and the Athletic Training Endowment at NAU.<\/p>\n

Ray Smith<\/strong>\u00a0will be recognized for his achievements on the football field and in the classroom, as a member of NAU\u2019s 1978 Big Sky championship team and a teacher and football coach at Kingman High School.<\/p>\n

Former Flagstaff High School football standout, David Carder, will be honored for his four-year run at Stanford University, where he started at defensive line for three years.<\/p>\n

Last year, the foundation recognized the Cardinals\u2019 contributions to Flagstaff and inducted owner Bill Bidwill into the\u00a02009 Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days after the Arizona Cardinals arrive in the cool mountain air at Northern Arizona University, President\u00a0John Haeger\u00a0will be inducted into\u00a0Flagstaff Sports Foundation\u00a0Hall of Fame for his continued efforts to enrich the partnership between the football team, university and Flagstaff community. The three year\u00a0contract extension\u00a0signed this June marks the continuation of a positive partnership…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":16288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}