BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Athletics finished off the 2023 spring semester with the best cumulative department GPA on record at 3.20.
The previous department record was set in the spring of 2021 with a GPA of 3.19. The top four highest cumulative career GPAs have come in each of the last four years for the department (2023: 3.20; 2021: 3.19; 2022: 3.18; 2020: 3.14).
Twelve of WKU's 14 sport programs have a team cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. There are six teams that have a team cumulative GPA higher than 3.50.
About 68% of all WKU student-athletes are maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and 72% recorded a semester GPA of 3.0 or higher this past spring.
A total of 208 student-athletes were named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll. There were 61 WKU student-athletes who earned the Commissioner's Academic Medal for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher.
There were 50 WKU student-athletes who graduated in the spring or will graduate at the end of the summer. The class had a cumulative GPA of 3.49, marking the highest graduating class GPA since at least 2010. Over the entire year, 78 student-athletes earned their degrees from WKU.
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