{"id":692,"date":"2016-05-18T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/?page_id=556"},"modified":"2016-05-18T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:05:59","slug":"roy-ching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/profiles\/profile-archive\/roy-ching\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Ching"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class='post-692 float'><h2>Roy Ching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bobcat Athletic Award (2012)<\/li>\n<li>President's International Athletes Award (2012)<\/li>\n<li>Bobcat Athletic Award (2013)<\/li>\n<li>President's International Athletes Award (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Bobcat Athletic Award (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Brandon University International Undergraduate Student Scholarships (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Garth Davis Baker Academic Achievement Scholarship in Geology (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Henry Harris Scholarship in Athletics (2014)<\/li>\n<li>President's International Athletes Award (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Bobcat Athletic Award (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Brandon University International Undergraduate Student Scholarships (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Riley Memorial Scholarship in Third Year Geology (Highest Standing) (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Steeves Leadership Award (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Garth Davis Baker Academic Achievement Scholarship in Geology (2015)<\/li>\n<li>President's International Athletes Award (2015)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside><p>When Roy Ching first looked at Brandon University, what he saw were the Bobcats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, the chance to play volleyball at a high level was the big draw,\u201d says the star setter, who was born in the Cook Islands and grew up in New Zealand. Previous New Zealanders who\u2019d come to play at BU helped seal the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThey only said good things about the city and the school,\u201d Ching says. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to turn that down.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It turned out to be a great decision for the Bobcats. In 2015\u201316, his fourth season on the mens volleyball team, Ching led the nation in kills (408) and kills-per set (4.58), while serving as team captain. Ching also notched 20 or more kills in eight conference matches and his whopping 408 total kills smashed the school&#8217;s single season record, an impressive feat considering the Bobcats&#8217; rich history of talented heavy hitters.<\/p>\n<p>For his outstanding accomplishments, the New Zealander was named a Canada West all-star and a second-team All-Canadian, becoming the third Bobcat in the past four seasons to earn the highly regarded CIS award. In April, 2016, Ching was also named the men\u2019s volleyball Most Valuable Player and earned overall Outstanding Male Athlete honours as the Bobcat male athlete of the year.<\/p>\n<p>But Ching has evidently paid as much attention to his professors as he has to his coaches. The soft-spoken superstar athlete is also a superstar student, with his top grades earning him more than $12,000 in scholarships in his fourth year, including the Christopher Riley Memorial Scholarship for highest standing in third-year Geology.<\/p>\n<p>Ching says that planning and time management were essential to his being able to perform at a high level both on the volleyball team and in his studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re always busy, in the gym three hours a day, hitting weights,\u201d he says. \u201cI try to plan as far ahead as possible each semester. I still get stuck in last minute panics, but it could be a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heading into his final year of Geology studies, Ching isn\u2019t sure whether he\u2019ll go on to graduate school or take a crack at playing volleyball overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he\u2019s eyeing a career in geology, probably in the hard-rock mining industry, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, BU\u2019s Geology Department has been very good. The science faculty was very supportive of being a student-athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ching says that support from scholarships has been just as important as support from faculty and support from volleyball fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been hugely advantageous to me; one less thing to worry about,\u201d he says. \u201cI just go to school and apply myself. I like to work hard, and it\u2019s good to get some recognition for that also.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Ching Bobcat Athletic Award (2012) President&#8217;s International Athletes Award (2012) Bobcat Athletic Award (2013) President&#8217;s International Athletes Award (2013) Bobcat Athletic Award (2014) Brandon University International Undergraduate Student Scholarships (2014) Garth Davis Baker Academic Achievement Scholarship in Geology (2014) Paul Henry Harris Scholarship in Athletics (2014) President&#8217;s International Athletes Award (2014) Bobcat Athletic Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732,"parent":610,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-692","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/scholarships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}