Beloit College

Diligence and desire.  Christina Pape used those words as key points in her graduation speech to the Beloit class of 1998.  They are also two words that describe the way Pape carried herself through an honor-filled four-year career in both basketball and softball.  A four-year letterwinner in both sports, she earned First Team All-Midwest Conference honors three times in basketball and once in softball.  In basketball, she started her career with the Most Improved Award and progressed to the Best Offensive Player in her junior season and finally to the Beloit and MWC Player of the Year as a senior.  Along the way she helped lead the team to three MWC Championships while scoring the third-most points in Buccaneer history with 1,288.  In softball, she was a member of Beloit’s first, and only, MWC Championship team in 1996 and helped lead the team to 61 wins in her four seasons.  After graduation, she earned her Masters in Counseling and her Doctorate in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis at UW-Madison.  She is currently the Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science Undergraduate Academic Services Office at Wisconsin, where she follows her desire to “make a difference in a student’s life” by creating systems and communications which facilitate timely degree completion.