{"id":5227,"date":"2021-02-10T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=5227"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:35:25","slug":"student-athletes-break-academic-records-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2021\/02\/10\/student-athletes-break-academic-records-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-athletes break academic records again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western student- athletes extended their active streak to a record-setting sixth- consecutive academic semester, following a highly productive fall 2020 in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Griffon Athletics has established new highs in major academic benchmarks each semester since spring 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This past fall, a record 255 student-athletes achieved MWSU Academic Honors for posting a semester grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The total shatters the previous high of 217 student-athletes established in fall 2019 and represents 65% of the university\u2019s student-athlete population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Griffons saw 59 student- athletes earn President\u2019s List honors (4.0 GPA), 95 achieve Dean\u2019s List status (3.5-3.99 GPA) and 101 named to the Athletic Director\u2019s Honor Roll (3.0-3.49 GPA). Each category posted its highest student-athlete count in Missouri Western history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Griffon women\u2019s tennis paced the athletic department with a 3.87 semester team GPA and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3.84 cumulative team GPA. MWSU women\u2019s soccer (3.60) and softball (3.53) joined tennis with cumulative team GPAs of 3.5 or higher. In total, 16 of 17 NCAA programs concluded the fall 2020 semester with a cumulative team GPA of 3.0 or higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The overall Athletic Department cumulative GPA checked in at 3.21 following the fall 2020 academic semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western student- athletes extended their active streak to a record-setting sixth- consecutive academic semester, following a highly productive fall 2020 in the classroom. Griffon Athletics has established new highs in major academic benchmarks each semester since spring 2018. This past fall, a record 255 student-athletes achieved MWSU Academic Honors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5229,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5227\/revisions\/5229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}