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Raterman a leader at
UD
Former Versailles standout getting the job done on and off the court
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Justine Raterman is part of the University of Dayton Honors program and
is in the highly-innovative University Core Program, in which 150
students are selected each year to represent a cross-section of new
students with differing backgrounds and abilities. Core is designed to
deepen the learning experience for students.
Raterman is a double major in AYA Math Education and Mathematics.
Raterman, who carries a 3.71 GPA, was named the Scholar Athlete of the
Year for the Dayton women’s basketball team in 2008-09 and 2009-10. She
has attained a perfect 4.0 GPA in five different semesters. Raterman
was a second-team CoSIDA All-District IV selection in 2010-11. She was
a Dayton Presidential Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award nominee in
2010-11 and has been named to the Atlantic 10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
and UD Dean’s List every semester at Dayton. She is also a physics
tutor.
Raterman is a two-time team captain. The Flyers have made three
consecutive postseason appearances under Raterman’s leadership,
including back-to-back NCAA Championship at-large berths in 2009-10 and
10-11. The 2009-10 season marked the first time ever that Dayton
women’s basketball earned a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Throughout the 2010-11 season Raterman continually showed her mental
and physical strength. She suffered a concussion late in the season,
but she came back and led UD in the Atlantic 10 Championship to three
straight victories vaulting the Flyers to the program’s first-ever
title game.
In the semifinal she suffered a knee injury. The team thought it was a
torn meniscus, but Raterman actually tore her ACL. To keep team morale
high, she did not disclose this to her teammates and scored 19 points
and had six rebounds in the A-10 championship game in which UD fell to
No. 4 Xavier. Raterman underwent surgery immediately after the season
and was cleared for play on September 27. She did not miss a single
team practice and will be ready to start for the 2011-12 season.
She has also been the women’s basketball representative on University
of Dayton’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee since her freshman year.
She is on the Community Service Committee of SAAC that organizes
service opportunities and Dayton’s tradition of Christmas on Campus.
She is also a member of Dayton’s Athletes in Action.
Raterman and the Dayton women’s basketball team were honored with the
2011 Atlantic 10 Female Sportsmanship Award. The Flyers were honored
with the 2010-11 Student Service Award from the Miami Valley Catholic
Social Services for their work within the local schools and hospitals.
They also were recipients of the 2010 Erin Ritchey Memorial Volunteer
Service Award, recognized for their continued commitment and
exceptional support to individuals with disabilities.
The UD women’s basketball team has won the Flyer Challenge in the first
two years (2009-10 and 2010-11). It is a program to increase UD
student-athletes’ involvement in NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills. Individually,
Raterman’s list of volunteer activities includes being a one-on-one
tutor at Student Learning Services one-on-one since 2010, working with
Habitat for Humanity, the University of Dayton’s YMCA Olympics and the
Dayton Ronald McDonald House, visiting patients in the Dayton
Children’s Hospital and delivering presents to the YMCA Grace Methodist
Daycare the last three years.
She is also involved with Special Olympics basketball, she has
participated in MRDD activities with the FANtastic Flyers, a UD women’s
basketball fan club comprised of people with special needs, and has
organized a relationship between UD’s Bombeck Center (on-campus daycare
and school) with the Flyer athletic department that provides all sports
teams opportunities to visit the children at the Center.
Raterman enters her senior season on the John R. Wooden Award list and
was invited to the USA basketball team for the World University Games
but had to decline due to her injury. She has been the Flyers’ leading
scorer for three consecutive seasons, during which she has moved into
the top 10 of several career categories: first in three-point field
goal percentage; fifth in three-pointers made; sixth in total points;
eighth in offensive rebounds; 10th in field goals made.
As a junior, she was named first-team All-Atlantic 10 and he team named
her its Most Valuable Player. Earlier in her career, Raterman earned
second-team All-Atlantic 10 and Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year honors.
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