USF Student-Athletes Post Record GPA
June 03, 2016 | Baseball, Football, General, Men's Basketball, Men's Golf, Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Softball, Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Women's Sailing, Women's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Women's Volleyball, Track & Field, Cross Country, Academic Services, W Track & Field
Football posts highest team GPA on record in spring 2016
TAMPA, JUNE 3, 2016 – The student-athletes comprising USF Athletics posted a combined annual grade-point average of 3.085 for the 2015-16 academic period, the highest on record for the Bulls' athletic program.
The 2015-16 overall GPA marked the first time the program logged above a 3.0 in the combined annual term. The final annual score was boosted by a sterling 3.088-combined GPA for all of USF student-athletes during the just complete spring term, the highest term GPA on record for Athletics.
The Bulls' academic success was led by 249 student-athletes that recorded a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the spring semester, a number that represents over 60 percent of student-athletes enrolled in the spring. USF had 12 sports teams post an annual GPA over 3.0, led on the women's side by coach Cristina Moros' tennis program with a 3.386 GPA and on the men's side by coach Matt Hill's tennis program with a 3.364 GPA.
The cumulative USF GPA for all enrolled student-athletes following the recently completed spring term was an impressive 3.117. That number has continued a consistent rise during recent terms.
USF's football program posted a 2.907 team GPA among 93 student-athletes enrolled in the spring, the highest term GPA in the program's history. Head Coach Willie Taggart's program has seen its team GPA rise year-over-year in each of the last two terms and its annual GPA of 2.857 rise considerably from 2014-15's mark of 2.490.
A total of 80 USF student-athletes have or will earn their degree in 2015-16. USF posted a record 83 percent Graduation Success Rate for the second-straight year when the latest data was announced last November.
About USF Athletics
USF Athletics sponsors 19 varsity men's and women's teams that compete in 11 different sports, 18 competing at the NCAA Division I level in the American Athletic Conference. The Bulls' athletic program is celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015 having started with a men's soccer contest in 1965. Nearly 500 student-athletes train and compete in the athletic district located on the east end of Tampa campus. The Bulls claimed five conference titles in their first two seasons in The American. Eight USF programs reached NCAA post-season competition in the 2014-15 season as USF posted an 83 percent Graduation Success Rate among student-athletes, with 182 earning conference all-academic recognition.
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