Rice Student Athletes Honored for Classroom Efforts
7/19/2007 12:00:00 AM | General
July 19, 2007
Rice University has earned the Conference USA Institutional Excellence Award for the second straight year, as announced by Commissioner Britton Banowsky today.
The Institutional Excellence Award is given to the C-USA institution with the highest grade point average during the current academic year for all student-athletes in conference sponsored sports. Rice student-athletes combined for an annual grade point average of 3.031, with seven teams representing their respective sport's top GPA. The Owl women's track and field squad also won the C-USA Indoor and Outdoor Championships.
The Sport Academic Award is given to the team in each conference-sponsored sport with the highest grade point average for the current academic year. The East Carolina and Marshall women's golf teams shared the award and also posted the highest annual GPA with a 3.61. Following is a list of the Sports Academic award honorees:
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