Student-athletes set GPA records

Friday, January 25, 2008

Many University of Kansas sports records were broken in fall 2007. But the latest were broken off the field.

According to a press release from the Athletics Department, a record 48 student-athletes earned a 4.0 grade point average. The Jayhawks also set the record for highest average GPA in a fall semester with a 2.93 GPA. In fall 2006, Jayhawk student-athletes averaged a 2.88 GPA.

Roughly half, 229, of student-athletes earned the minimum 3.0 GPA required to be on the athletic director’s honor roll this past fall.

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The women’s golf team boasted the highest average GPA for a team with 3.37.

Thirty-two Jayhawk athletes made their respective All-Academic Big 12 teams in the fall, including 14 football players, seven soccer players, seven women’s cross country runners, six volleyball players and five men’s cross country runners.

Kansas associate athletics director Jim Marchiony passed some of the credit for the grades to teachers and athletics department staff.

“We have a faculty willing to work with us and help us when athletes have to travel. They’re very understanding,” Marchiony said. “And our academic support staff in athletics is a tremendous, hard-working staff.”

The women’s golf team boasted the highest average GPA for a team with 3.37. The women’s basketball team set a record for its sport with a 3.11 GPA. Football had the lowest GPA at 2.39, falling from a team-high 2.69 in spring 2007.

Women fared better in the classroom this semester. Ten of Kansas’ 11 women’s athletic teams averaged better than a 3.0 GPA, while none of the six men’s teams reached that mark.

Marchiony said that academics were a high priority in his department, but that no teams earning lower grades received less or more attention than others.

The spirit squad added another 35 scholars to the athletic director’s honor roll, two of whom earned 4.0 GPAs.

Marchiony said that student-athletes’ GPAs at the University have raised little by little in the past few years. In spring 2007, a record 61 percent of student-athletes earned a 3.0 GPA or better.

— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird

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