Jul 9, 2021
When it comes to success in the classroom, the Seattle Pacific women are at the head of the class. With the cross country team establishing a conference record for highest grade-point average for the second year in a row, SPU won the overall women's competition for the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Academic All-Sports award program.
The Falcons totaled 90 points, four ahead of runner-up Central Washington. Northwest Nazarene, which won the women's title for the last four years, was third with 81.
This is the third time SPU has won the women's title. The others were in 2005-06 and 2015-16.
Seattle Pacific tied for fifth in the men's standings with 46 points. In the combined women's and men's standings, the Falcons were third with 136 points. Central Washington won with 156, with 70 of those from winning the men's competition. NNU was second with 142.
The Academic All-Sports standings are based on the cumulative grade-point averages of all of the student-athletes on the official team rosters including redshirts. Points are awarded in two-point increments, based on how many schools are competing in any given sport.
Along with cross country, Seattle Pacific also won the women's academic titles for track and field, and rowing.
All 10 SPU programs finished with GPAs of 3.0 or higher, one of four schools among the 10 in the conference with that distinction.