BOSTON – After a year during which America East student-athletes collectively earned a conference-record 3.15 grade-point average, the University of New Hampshire has claimed the league’s 2015-16 Academic Cup. UNH student-athletes earned a 3.23 GPA to pace America East’s nine member institutions, each of which collected better than a 3.0 GPA last year.
The Academic Cup, established by the America East Board of Directors in 1995, is presented to the institution whose student-athletes post the highest grade-point average during that academic year.
Need to Know
- Every America East institution and 75 percent (104-of-139) of its teams averaged better than a 3.0 GPA collectively in 2015-16.
- America East student-athletes averaged a 3.15 GPA overall in 2015-16, the highest single-year mark in league history and the fourth-straight year a new standard has been set.
- It’s the 11th-consecutive year America East student-athletes have averaged better than a 3.0 GPA.
- The Academic Cup is New Hampshire’s second straight and fourth in school history (1998-99, 1999-2000, 2014-15, 2015-16).
- Academic Cup All-Time Winners
2015-16 America East Academic Cup Standings
Rank School GPA
| 1. New Hampshire |
|
3.23 |
| T2. Binghamton |
3.21 |
| Hartford |
3.21 |
| 4. Vermont |
|
3.17 |
| 5. Maine |
3.16 |
| 6. Albany |
|
3.15 |
| 7. UMass Lowell |
|
3.14 |
| 8. Stony Brook |
|
3.09 |
| 9. UMBC |
3.03
|
Sport GPA Champions
Baseball – Hartford (3.25)
Men’s Basketball – UMBC (3.08)
Women’s Basketball – *Maine (3.47)
Men’s Cross Country – Vermont (3.38)
Women’s Cross Country – Vermont (3.64)
Field Hockey – *^Albany (3.55)
Men’s Lacrosse – UMass Lowell (3.34)
Women’s Lacrosse – Binghamton (3.32)
Men’s Soccer – Binghamton (3.27)
Women’s Soccer – New Hampshire (3.51)
Softball – Hartford (3.39)
Women’s Swimming & Diving – ^UMBC (3.37)
Women’s Tennis – Hartford (3.68)
Men’s Indoor Track & Field – New Hampshire (3.23)
Women’s Indoor Track & Field – Vermont (3.56)
Men’s Outdoor Track & Field – Binghamton (3.22)
Women’s Outdoor Track & Field – Vermont (3.49)
Volleyball – Hartford (3.56)
*AE regular-season champion
^AE champion
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