BOONE, N.C. – This spring, Appalachian State student-athletes ended the semester with a 3.11 grade point average, just shy of the school-record mark of 3.12 posted last spring. This spring was the 14th consecutive semester with a GPA above 3.0 for Mountaineer student-athletes.
The cumulative GPA for all athletes currently sits at 3.16, topping the record-setting average of 3.14 as of fall 2018.
Twelve teams finished with a semester GPA over 3.0, four of which were better than 3.5 (women's cross country, women's golf, women's soccer and volleyball). Cross country led the women's sports for their fourth consecutive semester with a 3.63. Tennis topped the men's sports for the second consecutive spring with a 3.35.
Thirteen teams maintain a cumulative GPA above 3.0 with women's cross country once again leading the way with a 3.62. On the men's side, tennis holds the highest cumulative GPA with a 3.22.
A total of 61 student-athletes
graduated from App this spring, including at least one student-athlete from each sport.
Since its 2014-15 transition to the Sun Belt Conference for all but two sports (wrestling and field hockey), App State has paced the league in academic performance among its student-athletes. In the 2016-17 academic year, App State won the Sun Belt Institutional Graduation Rate Award for the second time in three years. The Mountaineers totaled 95 student-athletes on the Commissioner's List (3.5+ GPA) and 115 on the Academic Honor Roll (3.0-3.49 GPA) after the 2017-18 academic year. This month, App State led all Sun Belt schools with a school-record 14 teams that achieved a
perfect 1,000 single-year APR score.
| TEAM |
SPRING 2019 GPA |
CUMULATIVE GPA |
| Women's cross country |
3.63 |
3.62 |
| Women's golf |
3.56 |
3.42 |
| Women's soccer |
3.55 |
3.46 |
| Volleyball |
3.54 |
3.45 |
| Field Hockey |
3.44 |
3.40 |
| Women's track & field |
3.42 |
3.41 |
| Women's tennis |
3.37 |
3.45 |
| Men's tennis |
3.35 |
3.22 |
| Men's soccer |
3.26 |
3.14 |
| Softball |
3.17 |
3.17 |
| Men's cross country |
3.05 |
3.12 |
| Wrestling |
3.03 |
2.95 |
| Women's basketball |
2.96 |
3.18 |
| Men's track & field |
2.91 |
3.01 |
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