CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- The Women's Basketball Coaches' Association (WBCA) awarded the University of Hartford for its team success in the classroom as part of the annual Academic Top 25 Honor Roll released Thursday afternoon.
“It is always an honor for the WBCA to recognize these teams for putting
together outstanding cumulative grade point averages,” WBCA CEO Beth Bass
said. “We want to congratulate each and every one of these teams for
their efforts in the classroom and want them to know that we celebrate their
hard work. My thanks go out to these teams for setting a benchmark of
success academically among their peers in the sport.”
The Hawks, the America East regular season runners-up, led all conference squads with a 3.308 team grade-point average (GPA), which ranked 25th in the nation. Eleven members of the women's basketball team recently earned America East Academic Honor Roll status for GPAs of 3.00 or higher, including eight recognized on the Commissioner's Honor Roll for GPAs of at least 3.30.
GPAs are calculated by dividing the total number of quality points earned by
each student-athlete on an institution's roster in the given academic terms by
the total number of hours earned by the team. The GPAs are rounded to the
nearest thousandth of a point. Per a motion passed by the WBCA Board of
Directors in 2007, teams making the list of Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll
must obtain at least a 3.000 overall GPA.
The WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I is as follows:
|
|
School
|
2008-09
Head Coach
|
Team
GPA
|
|
1
|
Indiana
State University
|
Jim
Wiedie
|
3.645
|
|
2
|
University
of North Dakota
|
Gene
Roebuck
|
3.580
|
|
3
|
South
Dakota State University
|
Aaron
Johnston
|
3.571
|
|
4
|
Montana
State University-Bozeman
|
Tricia
Binford
|
3.501
|
|
5
|
Bowling
Green State University
|
Curt
Miller
|
3.470
|
|
6
|
University
of Northern Iowa
|
Tanya
Warren
|
3.437
|
|
7
|
Manhattan
College
|
Myndi
Hill
|
3.432
|
|
8
|
Western
Carolina University
|
Kellie
Harper
|
3.428
|
|
9
|
Eastern
Washington University
|
Wendy
Schuller
|
3.422
|
|
10
|
University
of New Mexico
|
Don
Flanagan
|
3.414
|
|
11
|
DePaul
University
|
Doug
Bruno
|
3.402
|
|
12
|
Utah
Valley University
|
Cathy
Nixon
|
3.390
|
|
13
|
Kansas
State University
|
Deb
Patterson
|
3.374
|
|
14
|
Wichita
State University
|
Jody
Adams
|
3.361
|
|
15
|
Lehigh
University
|
Susan
Troyan
|
3.356
|
|
t16
|
Saint
Bonaventure University
|
Jim
Crowley
|
3.353
|
|
t16
|
Cornell
University
|
Dayna
Smith
|
3.353
|
|
18
|
Villanova
University
|
Harry
Perretta
|
3.346
|
|
19
|
University
of Evansville
|
Misty
Murphy
|
3.336
|
|
20
|
Oakland
University
|
Beckie
Francis
|
3.323
|
|
t21
|
Charleston
Southern University
|
Julie
Goodenough
|
3.320
|
|
t21
|
Columbia
University
|
Paul
Nixon
|
3.320
|
|
23
|
University
of Wisconsin, Green Bay
|
Matthew
Bollant
|
3.317
|
|
24
|
University
of South Dakota
|
Ryun
Williams
|
3.311
|
|
25
|
University
of Hartford
|
Jennifer
Rizzotti
|
3.308
|