WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The final scores have been posted and once again, William & Mary Tribe Athletics flexed its muscle in the classroom. As a department, the Tribe amassed a cumulative grade point average of 3.22 during the 2016-17 academic year and 20 of its 21 programs (indoor and outdoor track and field are combined) registering team averages of at least a 3.0.
The Tribe's cumulative GPA has trended upward since 2010, and W&M owns averages of at least 3.0 each year. The number of 3.0 programs is the highest ever as is the department's overall GPA. The W&M teams were consistent, posting a 3.21 cumulative GPA during the fall and a 3.23 in the spring.
The women's tennis program produced the best team GPA during the fall at 3.57, while women's swimming enjoyed the top spring team GPA at 3.60. Men's golf produced the best team GPA for the year at 3.53 followed closely by the top two women's programs in gymnastics at 3.456 and swimming at 3.455.
The department's grade point averages are among a number of exceptional academic accomplishments for the Tribe in 2016-17. Here is a look at some of the more notable achievements:
W&M Athletics Leads CAA, State, Ranks Among National Top-25 with Nine NCAA Public Recognition Awards
W&M Enjoys Success in NCAA GSR and Federal Grad Rates
During the fall, W&M once again showed its strength in the NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) and the Federal Graduation Rate (FGR), ranking among the top 3% of NCAA institutions for the cohort that began college in 2009-10. Tribe Athletics had an overall Federal rate of 86%, matching its best-ever, while the NCAA rate was 91%. W&M ranked 11th among all Division I institutions in the FGR, its best rank since 2011-12, and its 12th-straight year out of 12 that the NCAA has been tracking the figure that W&M has ranked among the top 5% of all colleges and universities. The Tribe was once again the nation's best public university athletic department for graduating its athletes, a distinction that W&M has earned every year since 2004-05. Seven teams earned a perfect 100% graduation rate in the NCAA method, an improvement of two teams over 2014-15. Those included men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, men's tennis, field hockey, and volleyball.
W&M Sets Academic Achievement Record with 147 Provost Award Winners, Honoring Students with Cumulative GPAs of 3.5
Men's Gymnastics' Jacopo Gliozzi Earns CoSIDA Academic All-America At-Large Distinction, W&M's 60th All-Time Honoree
Four Tribe Student-Athletes Were Named to Phi Beta Kappa, giving Athletics 71 since 1990 and 267 dating back to 1899:
Field Hockey's Olivia Hajek
Men's Basketball's Paul Rowley
Lacrosse's Rachel Rapp
Men's Swimming's Josh Zimmt
A Conference-Best Seven Tribe Student-Athletes Received CAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year Honors, Giving W&M a league-leading 74 since the inception of the award in 2002-03:
Women's Cross Country's Regan Rome
Women's Swimming's Jaimie Miller
Men's Swimming's Josh Zimmt
Baseball's Ryder Miconi
Men's Tennis' Christian Cargill
Men's Track and Field's Tucker Rizzi
Women's Track and Field's Regan Rome
