Tennis notched the highest team average GPA in the spring semester with a 3.77, per Athletics data released Monday.
This marks the third consecutive spring in which tennis has claimed the top spot, with a team GPA of 3.88 last spring and 3.86 in spring 2023. Although Athletics hasn’t released team-by-team breakdowns for the past three fall semesters, the overall GPA for student-athletes this spring was 3.43 — up from 3.39 in the fall and 3.40 last spring.
The top five program GPAs in the spring all came from women’s teams. Tennis’ top average was followed by women’s swimming and diving with a 3.71 average, while gymnastics, volleyball and lacrosse rounded out the top five teams of the season with GPAs of 3.66, 3.66 and 3.65, respectively.
The Revolutionaries’ average fell below three of its conference foes with publicly released GPA data. La Salle athletes averaged a 3.51 GPA in the spring, St. Louis athletes averaged a 3.49 and Duquesne a 3.46.
Eighty percent of Revolutionary athletes achieved above a 3.0 GPA and 55 percent reached above a 3.5 GPA in the spring semester, per Athletics’ data.
While the student athlete average GPA has stayed fairly consistent the past couple of years — ranging between 3.35 and 3.43 — the average before the COVID-19 pandemic was much lower, equaling 3.22. During the pandemic, the average shot up to a record high 3.62, mainly due to the shift to remote learning.
Forty-one student athletes scored a perfect 4.0 in the spring semester, per the data. Swimming’s graduate student Marlee Rickert and senior diver Olivia Paquette were named to the Atlantic-10’s all-academic team, requiring at least a 3.0 GPA for nomination and voted on by the conference’s communications directors.
This year, 15 out of 20 programs produced perfect single-year Academic Progress Report scores of 1,000. The APR is determined by the NCAA using two factors — whether athletes stay in school and whether they are academically eligible.
Men’s basketball, men’s soccer, men’s track and cross country and men’s swimming and diving were the only teams that didn’t receive a perfect APR score this year. Every women’s program received a perfect score.
