Quinnipiac Student-Athletes' Showcase Academic Excellence For Fall 2016
1/30/2017 1:41:00 PM | General
Quinnipiac Athletics has announced its academic success for the Fall 2016 semester. 463 Bobcat student-athletes, that comprise Quinnipiac's 21 varsity teams, combined for a department-wide 3.359 semester grade-point average. 17 Quinnipiac varsity team carried a 3.0 combined GPA for the term with women's cross country (3.67) and men's cross country (3.58) posted the highest women's and men's team GPA, respectively.
"Our student-athletes have done an exceptional job in sustaining excellence in the classroom," associate athletic director Lyneene Richardson said. "Quinnipiac's student-athletes have always done a masterful job, as a whole, in balancing their academic and athletic commitments and their Fall 2016 academic success is an indicator of that."
Of Quinnipiac's 358 student-athletes, 179 achieved a 3.5 semester GPA or higher with 37 earning a 4.0 GPA for term. In addition, five of those 37 were upperclassman and maintained a cumulative 4.0 grade-point average. 164 student-athletes were honored on Quinnipiac's Dean's List for the semester.
On the field, the first semester of the academic school year saw incredible achievements for all of Quinnipiac's fall sports.
"Our student-athletes have done an exceptional job in sustaining excellence in the classroom," associate athletic director Lyneene Richardson said. "Quinnipiac's student-athletes have always done a masterful job, as a whole, in balancing their academic and athletic commitments and their Fall 2016 academic success is an indicator of that."
Of Quinnipiac's 358 student-athletes, 179 achieved a 3.5 semester GPA or higher with 37 earning a 4.0 GPA for term. In addition, five of those 37 were upperclassman and maintained a cumulative 4.0 grade-point average. 164 student-athletes were honored on Quinnipiac's Dean's List for the semester.
- Quinnipiac's 463 student-athletes posted a 3.359 semester grade-point average
- 358 student-athletes achieved a semester GPA of at least 3.0
- 179 student-athletes achieved a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher
- 37 student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA this semester
- Five of the 37 were upperclassmen that maintained a 4.0 cumulative GPA
- 164 student-athletes we named to the Quinnipiac University Dean's List
- 17 teams achieved a 3.0-or-higher GPA as a team for the semester
- Women's Cross Country Team earned the highest GPA among Quinnipiac's 14 women's teams (3.67 GPA)
- Men's Cross Country Team earned the highest GPA among Quinnipiac seven men's teams (3.58 GPA)?
On the field, the first semester of the academic school year saw incredible achievements for all of Quinnipiac's fall sports.
- Bobcat fans saw a second-consecutive national championship for women's rugby while three other fall programs also advanced to the MAAC Championship Game. The women's rugby program became back-to-back NIRA National Champions with a 46-24 win against Central Washington on Nov. 20. Stand-out Ilona Maher was then honored as the National College Player of the Year for the fall season.
- Women's volleyball produced the greatest single-season improvement among all NCAA Division I teams with an 18-game jump in wins as they qualified for the MAAC Tournament for the first time in program history, where they advanced to and eventually lost to Fairfield in the conference championship game.
- Men's soccer clinched its fourth-conference regular-season championship in five years and hosted the MAAC Tournament where it lost to Rider in the Championship Game.
- Women's soccer also advanced to the MAAC Championship game before falling to Monmouth after winning the most games in a single-season since 2001.
- Field hockey won its third-straight defensive saves statistical championship while senior Angie King became the first player in NCAA Division I field hockey history to lead all student-athletes in defensive saves in consecutive seasons.
- All four winter sports are currently in contention for postseason play and represented Quinnipiac at a variety of national in-season tournaments during the first semester, most notably with men's ice hockey traveling to Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Friendship Four and also the Three Rivers Classic in Pittsburgh; women's basketball winning two games at the Play4Kay Shoot-out in Las Vegas, Nevada; Men's basketball defeating Indiana State at the ESPN AdvoCare Invitational in Orlando, Florida; and women's ice hockey hosting the Nutmeg Classic.
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