Owls Post Highest G.P.A. In Division I Soccer
10/4/2018 2:26:00 PM | Women's Soccer
Rice Receives United Soccer Coaches’ Team Academic Award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Rice soccer team posted the highest team grade-point average among all Division I programs (as well as the second-highest GPA for all divisions) on the way to receiving the United Soccer Coaches' Team Academic Award, the organization announced on Thursday (Oct. 4).
United Soccer Coaches, the national coaches association for college programs, recognizes exemplary performance in the classroom with its annual Team Academic Award. On Thursday the organization honored 773 women's and men's teams from all divisions college soccer for maintaining a composite grade-point average of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale for all players on the roster during the 2017-18 academic year.
Under the direction of head coach Nicky Adams, Rice registered the highest GPA among Division I women's and men's programs with an eye-opening 3.77 for a total of 27 student-athletes on the roster. The women's program from Division II Bellarmine University led the nation with a composite 3.79 GPA.
"I am of course very proud of the players in our program," coach Adams said. "Our student-athletes work equally hard on the soccer field and in the classroom. The players know coming-in that the Rice curriculum is one of the most challenging in the country, and for them to do so well both academically and athletically is really very special. Congratulations to all the Team Academic Award recipients, and their respective student-athletes."
The following is a list of the top six Division I women's team GPAs. View the full list of team academic honorees at the above link.
Division I Women's Soccer Teams
(School, GPA)
Rice University, 3.77
Eastern Kentucky, 3.75
New Mexico, 3.75
DePaul, 3.74
IUPUI, 3.71
Grand Canyon, 3.70
